Category: movies
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Rear Window
Not that you asked, but I lied before when I said we weren’t going to do a damn thing on Sunday. I’m going to pause here in order to note that my Kindle asked me if I wanted to add the world “damn” to it’s vocabulary. First, yes. Second, I’m shocked, just shocked to find out that Kindles Read.
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godzilla bless autofill
The Seanster and I were exchanging giddy text messages about the latest movie teaser for the upcoming Godzilla movie. Turns out my phone not only knows how to spell “Godzilla” already, it autofills “Godzilla” after I type the first three letters, because obviously who would ever stop after typing just “God?” Read.
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cheeseball
It’s been kind of a long week, so it wasn’t surprising that last night after we got home, we kicked off our shoes, found a couple of cocktails and settled in to the most comfortable furniture in our Little Red House to watch Rio Bravo. I’m sure something’s wrong with the commas in that sentence, Read.
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The Train
Last night’s movie was the The Train, maybe my favorite Burt Lancaster film ever because it has two of the most awesome subjects you could ever put in a movie, Burt Lancaster and steam locomotives. The film is based on the true World War Two story of the Nazis stealing paintings from the museums of Read.
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Elysium
The movie Elysium begins with a flashback. You can tell because it has the slightly out-of-focus, off-color look of an Instagram shot and the dialog sounds like you’re hearing it from the far end of a tunnel. The flashback introduces you to Max and Frey and shows you that they were childhood sweethearts. It also Read.
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Side Effects
Side Effects was an oddly unsatisfying movie. Oddly, because it should have been, and I can’t pin down what exactly didn’t work for me. The plot seems sound. The acting was good. The movie looked great. But in the end it was just meh. Odd. OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT: I’m going to give away everything. I Read.
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snuff it
Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses 9 to 21: Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” 15: First thou pullest the Holy Pin. 16-17: Then thou must count to three. Three shall be Read.
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can’t wait for the video
Hypothetical question for you: Pretend for a moment that you have somehow been sucked backward through time. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you find yourself experiencing events that have already happened to you. As a general rule, what’s the one thing you should never, ever do? Anybody? Anybody? Okay, I’ll just tell you: Read.
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The Cloud Atlas
We watched The Cloud Atlas last weekend. I didn’t like it. And the more I think about it, the less I like it. The point of the movie, and I won’t be giving anything away by starting with this, is that everything we do connects us with everything everybody else does. To bring you this Read.
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The French Connection
Sundance Cinema had a one-night showing of The French Connection, one of those classic American movies I’ve seen bits and pieces of for more than thirty years but have never watched from beginning to end, and especially not in a movie theater, so we motored across town after supper, plopped ourselves in a couple of Read.
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