I doubt that I’ll ever get to this level of excellence—in fact, my reviews probably shouldn’t even be called reviews—because I generally don’t put enough effort into writing reviews of movies or music. For me it is a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, I don’t do it because I’m no good because I haven’t done it much and thus get no better at it and thus don’t put much effort into it because I’m not good at it….
But as an excellent example of what I aspire to, please see this review of Wordplay by anna at eclectic librarian. It is a great depiction of the film in all of its angles, has a touch of the personal, discusses the DVD extras, and, well, I’m going to stop before I write a bad review of a good review.
Anna also writes good music reviews and she—originally unbeknownst to her— did an excellent job helping me buy some things from iTunes when I finally used a gift certificate I was given.
I have been very remiss on commenting on the songs I bought back in July 2006 and I mean to do that soon. For now, let me just say that the songs listed in that post, and in that order, constitute my Cataloging Music mix. They are every one excellent and make a most excellent mix (for me) to catalog serials to, amongst other things.
I guess the only thing “wrong” with anna’s review of Wordplay is that I have already seen it. And that is certainly nothing she had any control over.
So go read her review and then see the movie for yourself.
“Brava,” anna! Please keep up the great work.
