I had no idea that high school debate teams competed in such a high stress, high pressure arena. I was intrigued about the concept of “spreading” – what a crazy technique/skill! However, it doesn’t make much sense to talk that fast – real world applications of policy debate to me would be based more on argument and method rather than spewing as much info as possible in a set amount of time.

The debaters from Long Beach were a breath of fresh air – I was interested in seeing how they did.

This documentary definitely made me think that investing in a good suitcase lock is a must when traveling over seas!

This is a scary scenario and I feel for the woman, Schapelle Corby, who has been convicted of smuggling 10 lbs of marijuana from Australia to Bali. After watching the documentary, I don’t believe that she did it – I don’t belive she would have taken the risk and made so many mistakes if she really was a “mule” drug runner. Can’t believe the courts mandated that the evidence be burned . . . or that the bag of drugs was never finger printed nor that there were any video cameras at the airport.

This book had the potential to be extremely engaging due to the subject matter but this just fell flat. Only engaging enough to keep me reading to the end (grudgingly) but not one I would reccommend. Interesting twist at the very end though.

This movie was horrible. I like Chris Rock – he’s funny!! But in this movie he bombs. Eventually just had it turn it off. Glad we caught this on HBO and didn’t rent it.

I had no idea what this movie was about when I started watching. I had one “wtf????” moment after another starting from the nudist colony to . . . well, everything. Still, it was intriguing I guess. Weird but good if not a bit over the top.

I agree that the support cast was great but the leading actress – Anne Hathaway – was not a good fit to play Jane. I didn’t really like Keira Knightly in Pride and Prejudice but she was better in that movie than Anne was in this. Still, I love anything Jane Austin related and the scenery, costumes, storyline were good.

Slow in the beginning . . . thought the love scenes were a little much (okay! we get it, they were in love!) which is odd because usually I don’t have a problem with that . . . end was good, nice twist. Overall, just “okay” for me.

I adored this movie . . . hits some pretty sensitive areas and has a positive outcome . . . the soundtrack was great too!

Distrubing yet fascinating

It was a slow movie but I thought that it was still really good. And just one day after I finished it came the news that Heather Ledger died! How sad! I thought he was quite good in this film.