Mini-Review: I went into this hoping I would love it, but was very disappointed. Every character is cartoonishly either evil or angelic, and the happy ending just came off as forced in such an otherwise depressing story. The plot holes are unforgivably huge. I also love how professional critics are calling me "soulless" and "dead inside" just because I failed to smile at a contrived ending that solves nothing and sweeps the major social issues under the carpet.

Mini-Review: Boy, this is weird. It's more of an exploration on the marriage of animation and sound than any sort of traditional narrative, and in that respect, it's quite interesting. I can't see anyone other than an animation buff or film student being interested in this short though, it's a little too abstract for the masses. Maybe that's why it's never televised.

Mini-Review: I watched this online, completely on a whim, and was very pleasantly surprised. I loved the unscripted discussions of the Ramayana mythology and the cartoony bits with Annette Hanshaw music. The autobiographical portions and the rotoscoped musical sequences should have been dropped as they really drag down the narrative (and in the case of the autobiographical parts, they come across as pathetic). Still, it's a tremendous achievement for just one woman, and it's a lot of fun.

Mini-Review: I stand by this film as the greatest TV-to-movie adaptation ever made. The cast (Julia, Huston, Lloyd and Ricci in particular) is absolutely perfect and the script is still darkly hilarious 20 years later. RIP Raul Julia.

Mini-Review: The performances from Hopkins and Foster are easily the core of what is the best horror film ever. You can't help but be riveted by both of them - I wanted to look away from Lecter, but something in Hopkins' performance forced me to look into his cold eyes, which made the creepy sensation of the movie even more effective. Foster as Starling is an amazing heroine as well, who conveys both strength and vulnerability in a sympathetic and extremely believable way.