A Few Good Men
When I feel like I need a “pep talk” to inspire me to do good work, I like to watch my favorite lawyer movie: A Few Good Men. The climactic scene, in which Tom Cruise cross-examines Jack Nicholson and makes… Continue Reading
Movies
Bullet Proof Baby
I don’t have kids, but I can sure understand parents who are concerned about their childrens’ safety. Who wouldn’t do whatever they could to keep their children safe? So now, for the ultimate in child protection — it’s Bullet Proof… Continue Reading
Jason Does Manhattan
The Wife and I went to see The Bourne Ultimatum this weekend. Good movie. Tense. Fun. Realistic. Fast-paced. Smart. Okay, not realistic so much as occasionally cartoony, but yes, it’s a fun ride. The cool thing about all three Bourne… Continue Reading
Biltmore Boredom Blues
I presently sit in the lobby of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, consuming the wireless internet available here before my employment law symposium, set to begin in a few hours. I had an appearance in the downtown Los Angeles courthouse… Continue Reading
Harry Potter And The Book Burners
A woman sued her children’s school in Gwinnett County, Georgia because the school’s library carried Harry Potter books. She chose to represent herself and challenged the books on the theory that they advocated witchcraft, which is a religion, and therefore… Continue Reading
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Meh. Looked good, but too much mumbo-jumbo and not enough humor and especially not enough pirate fighting. Great costumes. Only Geoffrey Rush looked like he didn’t mail in his performance. On the scale of “it was a really awful movie”… Continue Reading
Fracture
Something about the movie Fracture bothered me. The legal procedures didn’t seem like they were right. Unsurprisingly, Eugene Volokh does a better job than I could have explaining them. Two issues half-remembered from my criminal law class just didn’t sit… Continue Reading
Three-Way Tie
The best “Best Picture” was a three-way tie — Lord of the Rings, Million Dollar Baby, and American Beauty.
Oh, We’ll All Go See It..
…but it does seem to me that Harrison Ford (65 years old) is getting just a little long in the tooth to be doing something like this. Maybe the movie will hand the reins of the franchise off to a… Continue Reading
Movies and TV
The DVR program guide went out a few days ago. Rebooting hasn’t fixed it. And Time Warner can’t fix it. We haven’t had the ability to see what’s on TV except by actually watching the channels. The recording function doesn’t… Continue Reading