The World According To John Rae the Great

Ok, I admit it.  I’m an American Idol junkie.  And I just feel like I owe it to myself and Melinda Doolittle to testify how great she is.  She is the most seasoned, most talented vocalist to ever grace the Idol stage.  I mean, she can color any phrase and word that she can even make the alphabet song sound fantastic.  She may not have the range, but she has the artistry comparable to any professional act out there.

Her first ever performance in the Top 12 is so good that I got goosebumps (twice) just witnessing a star being born right before our very eyes.  I must have played her rendition of ‘Home’ (heaven forbid) over a million times now.  If there is any justice in the world, she should be crowned this year’s Idol, a definitive standard that will be difficult to match or even surpass.

See for yourself.  And be amazed.

Very rarely does a film suddenly catapult itself to the very top of my list of favorite movies of all time.  Now there are 5 at the top of my list:  The Matrix trilogy (OK, I cheat by counting the three as one), Central Station, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Dancer in the Dark, and the latest member of such an elite group as John Rae’s All-Time Favorite Movies, Pan’s Labyrinth.  Kudos to Maribel Verdu for scoring two movies in there!

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OK I was intending to write a full review but something came up and now I’m a bit lazy.  But please do watch this movie; all I could think of from the very beginning was how I wish more movies were made even just nearly as good as this.  If you wanna know what this is all about, just Google it and find any of a hundred critics’ reviews fawning over this movie.  Pun intended.