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We’re Soaking In It

After a couple of weeks of patient waiting, my review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room has been posted at Mindjack Film. Interesting movie. I hope it bucks the odds and wins the Oscar, even if that scenario might result in a mob of angry penguins.

Speaking of home entertainment options, Christopher and myself had a buying binge at Best Buy over the weekend. Some of the results of that binge are listed in the “Recommended” section on the front page (down on the right side). I got the Simpsons Complete Season 7 set. This is likely the final Simpsons season set I’ll buy. The show slid into an amusing but undemanding formula right around this period. I’d even say that Bart Sells His Soul was the last truly brilliant episode they did, with Moe’s Family Feedbag storyline (“Daddy, this place smells like tinkle”) counting among the series’ best subplots ever. We also bought Creature Comforts, containing all 13 episode of the Aardman-produced programme on one disc (at 15 minutes apiece, they don’t take up too much room) and some great extras. Funny stuff, and in anamorphic widescreen to boot!


Comments

You might want to mention that Creature Comforts is by the same goofy people responsible for another currently Oscar-nominated item: The wild and crazy "Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit." It's all good.

I'm stopping my Simpsons DVD's with season 8. It's got my pick for the last great episode "Homer's Phobia" and that one where Principal Skinner is revealed to be an imposter the first truly horrible episode.

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