this breath is my first, it will all too soon be my last...

Added a review of Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen.

Classmate Jeremy Blachman has a little review of it here. He also urges us all to see Spellbound. It was good, but not great. (I gave it a B.) Kind of sad, really. What does one do after winning the National Spelling Bee? The movie presented us with kids who were downright obsessed with spelling every word ever written. All the kids seemed to define themselves as National Spelling-Bee contestants. Their entire worlds revolved around that competition. What happens after the competition is over? What happens to them when they can no longer be spelling-bee contestants? That would be an infinitely more interesting movie.