http://www.alicemcnamara.com Reviewing books, movies, TV, etc. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a quick trip to Baltimore this week, I had an evening free so I spent $10 to see The Other Guys a new flick starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson. For better entertainment value, I should have taken that ten bucks, thrown ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=348 I don't have much to say about this book. It was a good waiting for an airplane book. It was full of cliches about men, women, children, marriage. No new ground broken here; I'll probably give it away. In USA: Published in hardcover-Spiegel and Grau-2008 Softcover edition-Spiegel and Grau-2009 All We Ever Wanted Was ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=347 Yes, I admit it. I went to see Dinner for Schmucks and I did enjoy it. I have not really liked anything that Steve Carell (playing Barry) has done on the big screen-his talents seem suited perfectly for television. This, however, was quite clever and funny. Paul Rudd (Tim) plays an ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=345 Capsule review #4. Like probably every other book club in the country, mine had read Eat Pray Love a while ago, and really enjoyed the book. So of course I was anxiously awaiting the release of the movie. I was actually a bit disappointed. Julia Roberts plays Elizabeth Gilbert with a ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=343 Capsule review #3. Very good acting by all the principles, particularly Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a 40 something, long married lesbian couple. Their two children are the products of artificial insemination by the same sperm donor, played by Mark Ruffalo. When their son succeeds in connecting with his biological ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=341 Capsule review #2. Not the best movie ever. As with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the filmmakers  have condensed and simplified the book, but it still works. The actors playing the familiar characters have returned, and we do get to learn a bit more about them. So, if you've read ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=339 The Help by Kathryn Stockett is one of those books that are released to a great deal of fanfare, sell lots of copies, and go on to become even more popular. A year after its release I requested it from the library, and I was number 805 in the queue ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=337 Inception is a good movie, and worth the ticket price. Christopher Nolan directs a well paced, thrilling heist movie set in dreams. Leonardo Di Caprio plays Cobb, a man who leads a team of people who enter dreams to access the hidden depths of others. He is assisted by Joseph ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=334 Chris Cleave's  novel Little Bee is interesting and moving and finely constructed. It tells the story of  a young girl from Nigeria who, as the story opens, has spent two years in an immigration detention center in southeast England. She has fled Nigeria after the destruction of her village. Little Bee ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=333 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is the third book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Like most everyone else who has read the first two books, I have been anxiously awaiting my chance to read this final book. The strange and brilliant Lisbeth Salander is once again the girl ... http://www.alicemcnamara.com/?p=330