Category: entertainment
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
After a dinner conversation that revolved around movies featuring Robert Downey Jr., we shifted to the living room to scan the movies with Downey in them that were available for streaming and settled on Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang because we were in the mood for a comedy. I think My Darling B was the first to say,… Read.
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Don’t Walk Away
I was listening to tunes while doing some mindless, repetitive paperwork the other day when “Don’t Walk Away” came up as a random pick. My phone’s shuffle option tends to favor modern pop tunes and the Dave Brubeck best-of album I bought a year ago. It almost never plays the one-off tunes in my collection… Read.
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About Time
Last night’s movie here at Our Humble O’Bode was the romantic comedy-slash-not quite time travel movie About Time (I know there aren’t enough dashes. I ran out. Sue me). It was quite definitely a romantic comedy. It was not quite a time travel movie because, although Tim Lake, the guy narrating the story in the… Read.
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Generation Kill
Stuck in traffic on the way home yesterday evening, my iBrainPod had the Minnie Riperton bubblegum-pop tune Lovin’ You looping incessantly, not because I ever liked that song (who did, amiright?) but because I just recently saw this: I started watching Generation Kill last weekend – picked the first episode totally at random from the free… Read.
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Boomerang
I couldn’t finish reading Boomerang, Michael Lewis’s book about how all the bankers in the world simultaneously became irresponsible jerks. Not that it wasn’t a good book; far from it, the book was easy to read and the author seems to know quite a lot about how the financial world works and why it went… Read.
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Mars Attacks!
You know those smarty-pants movie reviews that go, “I watched Mars Attacks! so you won’t have to”? Well, I’m not gonna do that. You’re on your own with Mars Attacks! I watched the first forty minutes, and that was all I could stand. I nodded off in a few places, if that tells you anything.… Read.
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Godzilla
When a pair of giant cockroaches invade your city (and when I said giant, I mean taller than the tallest buildings), dig a hole that’s as wide as five city blocks and lay their eggs in it, who you gonna call? Godzilla, right? There was a scene, just before the final battle between the mighty kaiju… Read.
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The Big Country
If I had to recommend a classic Western to someone who’d never seen one before, I think I’d tell them to rent a copy of Billy Wilder’s The Big Country. From the opening sequence of a stage coach coming to town, Wilder framed every scene so his subject would look tiny and lost in the panoramic… Read.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
We went to see The Grand Budapest Hotel last Friday and I liked it so much that now I’m going to have to watch every Wes Anderson movie every made, dammit. The story takes place in and around The Grand Budapest Hotel, a hotel that never existed but looks, in its original incarnation, like every… Read.
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mascara
Bill Murray. Just because. I could be wrong, but I think that’s a mascara brush he’s got clamped in his teeth like a cigarette holder. Read.
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