Written and directed by, and starring, Amber Benson. Also starring James Marsters!! Has some very typical “first movie/low budget/indie amateur” effects: characters speak directly to the camera, the lighting is bizarre, timeline is the furthest from linear it could be, character development is touched on very lightly, etc. But there are a few charming moments, a couple sweet scenes. And the actors not only interact nicely, but the main two do a particularly good job of NOT being reminiscent at all of who you are expecting them to be together. Here’s a random (lengthy) online review if you’d like.

Yes, I must be on a “Tara” kick as I’ve been reading her writing as well: Totally sucked in by Ghosts of Albion!!

How could I have forgotten that I had seen this movie? Lots of lovely ballet, cheesy teenybop romances and soap operas. Anorexia! Injuries! Broken Hearts! And the battle against modern dance! All the highlights of any good ballet movie. Although there is a Russian among the dancers, the brash cocky American is really the one modeled on Baryshnikov. If only he were as good looking!! Particularly enjoyed the performance of Sascha Radetsky, who I’ve actually seen perform with the ABT. But, especially watching it now as opposed to when it came out, very hard to believe this didn’t come out until 1999/2000. Feels very ’80s/Flashdance/Footloose. Of course these ballet vs. dance movies never get old do they – Julie Stiles did one even more recently than this. 🙂

I remember my youthful days as a ballerina well. I would probably tear my Achilles or break an ankle were I to try any of those moves today!!

Painfully earnest and sincere. Very sweet. Some pretty songs. But I found myself wincing sometimes and didn’t quite fall for it, although my co-viewer completely DID. She felt it was just to the acceptable side of being too saccharine. I thought it was right on the line. It didn’t go so far over that I couldn’t watch it, but it was teetering right there on the edge.

T: “I’m going to buy the soundtrack RIGHT NOW! I loved it!!! Didn’t you?”
Me: “Um…. it was PAINFULLY sincere. Really, really earnest.”
T: “So you didn’t LOVE IT!! I LOVED IT!!”
Me: “No, I didn’t love it. I thought it was sweet.”
T: “You didn’t love it????? I LOVED IT!!”

Really charming and engaging. First half sways you one way: “Helvetica is so awesome! Greatest font ever!” Second half sways you in the opposite direction: “Helvetica is an evil tool of capitalism! Evil!”

Interviewees are both enigmatic and completely entertaining. Totally enjoyable flick!

Really really bad movie. But I knew it would be — only rented it for the Angel eye candy. I love the color of his hair here. That’s what I was going for the last time but there’s way too much blonde in mine currently.

Hilariously, raucously, side-splittingly funny = Yes.

Offensive, gross and sometimes downright icky, and I’m not referring to the scatological humor but rather the male/female relationships and general ideas about women you cannot help but get from this(ese) movie(s) = Also Yes.

I’ve sort of lost my patience for these male fantasy movies where the boy and his friends are nearly the lowest level of human possible (other than being cute, I guess he could be all that this boy is AND be ugly, that would be lower), yet the prettiest girl in the room falls for him. Oh, of course! And the very few (very FEW) things he eventually does to make himself even somewhat acceptable after the initial breaking off, the girl isn’t even aware of when she decides “Yes”.

There’s a lot more I could say about this, but really: why bother. (You can email me if you really want to know.) That really isn’t a world I’m interested in living in.

I feel pretty much the same way about this movie as I felt about “Waitress”: Great performance by the lead actress. But pretty disappointed by the flick overall.

Soooo worth it.

The most intelligent spoof movie I’ve seen. Completely enjoyable.

According to the poster, 18 vignettes (the picture grid at the beginning & end was 4×4 so suggested 16. Felt more like 30). All set in different Paris neighborhoods, some concerned with Paris, some not. Some realistic and true, some purely fantastical and nutso. Some I liked, some I hated, but all short enough that just hold out for a few minutes and you’re on to a new one. A couple random shots at the end linking some of the stories to each other, but not all. Lots of famous faces popping up, some in unexpected ways. Overall = enjoyable. But quite wacky.

And tell me the Elijah Wood segment did not totally steal all its coloration ideas from Sin City (which he was also in). I cannot tell him or Tobey Maguire apart and they both kinda creep me out.

Disappointing. Some great performances, Keri Russell in particular. But I thought the plot, the characters, their motivations, and the general “story” were all convoluted. I’m all for adultery in the movies, but in this movie it was the only fun and/or meaningful thing in any of these characters’ lives but for only one or two characters did we actually know or get any clue about the motivation behind it.

Very disappointed. Did not live up to the hype.