The suspense movie of the summer...

Is Spellbound, an Oscar-nominated documentary about eight contestants in the 1999 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. The kids are all endearing -- not nearly the freakshows I'd come to expect from previous bees and a certain other intellectual activity I know of and participate in. And the competition scenes: oh. my. god. you'll be on the edge of your seat spelling along silently (or not silently, if you were the jackasses behind me). It's crazy just how much this films sucks you in.



Blow off The Matrix this weekend and see this instead.