Three sentence movie reviews: Where History Lives: A Tour of the White House

I’ve been a fan of Aaron Sorkin’s TV series the West Wing for some time and I must confess that until I watched this DVD I didn’t really understand what the actual West Wing was.* Luckily, I was hard up for movies and brought home this 30 minute DVD, hosted by Laura Bush, and it explained it to me. Thank goodness the library stocks such informative information.

No picture. Apparently informative DVDs don’t have posters.
*This is much like me not really understanding that the US Capitol Building and the White House were not the same building. It was only when I visited Washington DC with my family as a 13 year old and saw they were two separate buildings that I realized that the White House was where the US President lived and the Capitol Building was where Congress did there work. Before the visit I could have drawn you pictures of both buildings, but they had joined in my mind as some hybrid where the president lived and the congress worked.

Three sentence movie reviews: Word Play


I myself am not a crossword puzzle person, though I would like to be. I found the opening–where Will Shortz reads his mail–to be hilarious and the story surprisingly moving. There are “famous” people throughout this documentary, but I found the most interesting people to be the “only famous in the puzzle world” puzzle people.