Category: movies
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WFF final day
Our first film of the day was a short documentary, Growing In Knowing: The Gateway to Midvale Garden. Scrap metal artist Erika Koivunen gets the kids of the Midvale Elementary School to bring her boxes of scrap metal, and she shows them how she makes a garden gateway out of it. I would have given Read.
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WFF day four
They gave us ballots we could use to rate each film we saw, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best ratings we could give. I gave films a three if I thought they were merely average, four if I would have recommended them, two if I would not have recommended them. I saved Read.
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WFF day three
Last Train Home told the incredible story of migrant workers in China who have left their farming communities to find jobs making exportable products in urban factories. Every year, 130 million of them travel home to visit their families and celebrate the Chinese new year. The scenes of thousands of travelers stampeding through the gates Read.
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WFF day two
The Topp Twins was a fun, heartwarming documentary about a couple of farm girls from New Zealand who grew up to become pop-folk singers, talented actors and comedians, successful fighters for civil rights and powerful activists for the country’s anti-nuclear fight. They threw in a generous helping of loving warmth from the bosom of the Read.
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WFF day one
Last night was the first night (but not, for some reason, the “opening night”) of the Wisconsin Film Festival. We had tickets to see Fathers and Guns and OSS 117: Lost In Rio, a pair of comedies. I don’t see how you can go wrong starting off with a laugh. Fathers and Guns was sort Read.
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ticketed
We had such a good time on our outing to the Wisconsin Film Fest last year that My Darling B and I took time off from work this year so we could see even more films … if we could get the tickets, which tend to sell out rather quickly, some of them within hours Read.
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guy night
I had to come up with something quick and easy to serve for guy night because I had to have plenty of time to perform a minor plumbing unblockage on the pipe that the kitchen sink drains into. When it’s blocked all the goop backs up and pools in the basement sink. It’s pretty gross. Read.
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voiceovers
The only movies that need voice-overs, the background chatter from one of the main characters to explain what’s going on, fall generally into one of two camps: they’re either film noir detective movies, or they’re not very good. Or (I’m all about giving you options) in the case of the Dennis Quaid sort-of detective flick Read.
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Julie & Julia
The latest post over at Texas Pete’s blog reviews The Fantastic Mister Fox, calling it “the best movie I’ve seen lately.” He also reviews Love Happens (“Crap”), The Proposal (“El Crapola”), Confessions of a Shopaholic (“Super Crap”), New In Town (“C.R.A.P”) and Julie & Julia (“Fun, light, insightful.”) Don’t you think it’s a crime that Read.
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geek-o-riffic
Hot Chicks With Storm Troopers is a web site dedicated to posting photographs of, um, hot chicks posing with geeks dressed up as Star Wars storm troopers. Or, on Fridays, hot chicks dressed up as storm troopers. Storm troopers with fully-armored boobies. Really. I couldn’t make up stuff like this. Back when I was a Read.
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