Million-Dollar BabyClint Eastwood, director
I seem drawn to the not feel-good movies. This, the tale of a white-trash woman who dreams of becoming a title-holding boxer, starts depressing and goes downhill from there.
It’s an interesting movie – I especially like the way everything was not all wrapped up neatly at the end – but not as good as I expected. Three stars maybe – but maybe that’s because I’m not a fan of boxing. Solid performances all around, especially by Hillary Swank, but not a movie I’ll return to any time soon.
Well, this has been the mildest winter in Chicago since they first began keeping records a century or so ago (but there’s nothing to the global warming nonsense), yet I’ve still got – in early February – Spring Fever.
Wanna get out of the house and cut the lawn or something.
We’ve had very little snow this year, which my back appreciates, but it’s going to be bad for the plants this summer – need some groundwater. We had the same problem last year, which was almost drought-like (again, here’s nothing to the global warming nonsense). It has rained a bit (we’ve had more thunderstorms than snow storms thus far this winter, which is just freaky), which helps, but the snow pack also helps insulate the ground and protect plants’ roots, so that’s not happening.