She blinded me with science...

Movie Review: Mindwalk (1990)
A great film along the lines of 'My Dinner with Andre'. 3 people, an ex-physicist, a poet and a former Presidential candidate walk through the ancient castle at Mont Saint Michael in France. Along the way they begin a conversation that touches on physics, politics, poetry, and many other points in between. It is a fascinating conversation that is further enhanced by the beautiful scenery and music of Phillip Glass. 8.5/10

Movie Review: What the Bleep Do We (K)now!? (2004)
This documentary discusses the limits of human knowledge. It looks at the state of current physics, psychology and biology. It also tries to tie them all into religious belief. The film consists of two threads, one follows a deaf woman through her day, the other feautures interview segments with various specialists about different topics. It's an interesting film with good CG effects but there appear to be some major weaknesses to the film's ideas.
Firstly, the film discusses quantum physics and the randomness that controls sub atomic particles. I thought this was very well done. It shows a lot of the strangeness and paradoxes that arise within the subatomic world, such as how an observer being present changes the outcomes of phenomena.
The movie also talks about an art display by a Japanese scientist named Emoto who apparently caused water molecules to change their patterns by simply inserting pieces of paper with different words (such as love, hate, etc) into the water. The film concludes that if our thoughts can change water then we can change anything. One character even says, "you can walk across water if you believe it enough." That doesn't sound like science to me. Other scenes show how our emotions, or addictions are merely caused by tiny chemical peptides in our brain. Once again, our thoughts, in this case happy thoughts, are the key to changing our emotions and neural networks.
Where the film really loses steam is when it begins talking about God. Various experts claim that what everyone thinks God is is wrong, and then they proceed explain what God really is. How are they to know? At least the scientific portions of the movie can fall back on experiments to verify their claims. This stuff about God is just more opinions.
I found it annoying that none of the experts are identified until the very end of the movie as the credits are rolling. I wanted to know who these people were and what their qualifications were to be making the various statements they did. It also turns out that one of the experts, a woman living in Seattle, claims to be possessed by a 25000 year old spirit of a man and has made a fortune charging people to attend lectures.
All in all the film interesting to watch but certainly isn't the revealing science film I thought it would be. It's really a 'New Age' film trying to bring science and religion together - which I think it fails to do. 7/10

Movie Review: What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)
An extended but recut version of the 2004 film. It covers most of the same points but features new interviews with many of the experts, some new participants, and some new animated shorts. It doesn't follow the deaf woman's story as much as the first film did but concentrates more on the technical parts of the film. Unfortunately, the 'Addicted to Love' musical number wasn't cut out. A good follow up for those who enjoyed the first film. 7.5/10

Book Review: Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 5: Defenders of the Dead - Jude Watson
Obi-Wan finally starts acting his age. While trying to mediate peace talks on a world ebroiled in a civil war, Obi-Wan befriends a group of youngster the same age as him and gets swept up by the turmoil around him. His rebelliousness threatens to break up his relationship with Qui-Gon Jin.