Reviews

I watch a lot of movies, though not when first run at theaters -- generally I'll wait until the DVD price falls. This is why I only now getting around to viewing this film that "won" Sandra Bullock her Razzie.

And I believe that the Razzie voters were mistaken. I feel that Bullock did a nice job of playing a quirky, annoying person. Surely there were plenty of performances far more deserving of this award.

Although the character could be annoying, she still seemed like someone that would also be good to have as a friend, particularly as she evolved by the end of the movie. I think that it would not be a stretch to compare Mary to PeeWee Herman in "PeeWee's Big Adventure."

It was a nice cast and I felt that all of the actors really did fine work in this fun little comedy and will be viewing it again.

For the last couple of months mud has been spewing from a fissure in the earth near a Javan village. Something like 130,000 cubic metres a day. This has covered 8 villages so far, and forced more than 10,000 persons from their homes.

The site is close to a new exploratory gas well.

Guidelines do not permit posting a URL, but search the BBC News site for the article "Java villages drown in mud lake" in the Asia-Pacific section.

Now Paramount could release the movie with a special feature covering this story. They could probably produce it with BBC.