At about 7 this morning I was outside shoveling roughly 5 inches of snow. This was probably the seventh time this winter that significant snowfall called me out, interrupting coffee or wine or whatever I could have been drinking while watching another movie. As neighbors and friends were bitching and moaning about more of the…
I have said many times that I love time-travel stories. I also have a great affinity for Rachel McAdams and British humor/humour, so I expected to very much enjoy About Time. The problem is that with the same brush with which writer/director Richard Curtis used to paint some originality with time travel, he also painted…
We all have our “thing.” For my brother, it’s football. For one of my friends, it’s all about her son. For my kid, it’s dance. Me? Movies. This is about my love of movies and how it came, went, came back again, and where it now resides. The first movie I can ever remember seeing…
Faith If it had been only the first or second time Burt had rung for the nurse, he wouldn’t have been as upset. Five unanswered rings was too much. He had tried every angle of his tongue, the corners of a sugar packet, and a chewed-off fingernail, yet nothing dislodged the shred of…
The high road is important, but it is not fun. It is delayed gratification, or no gratification. On the high road, it is not what you gain. It is what you do not lose. What’s this about? My stalker is back. If you would like details, you can read this post from The Rise and…
Before seeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler, I had several reasons to dislike it. First, I don’t like anyone’s name before the title. I would not like Martin Scorcese’s Goodfellas or Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, thus I would not like anyone’s anything. Second, any film with Oprah Winfrey usually belongs on basic cable. …
Round 2 of New Year’s Resolutions – but resolutions that are owed to me – are all in honor of the “greatest,” most successful sports organization in the world: The National Football League. I love football. I have been watching, learning, and studying football since I was about 8 years old. Back where I grew…
We sometimes have experiences as children that we don’t realize are not experiences that all children have. Sometimes, we think either every child, or maybe no other child, will go through the same positive and/or negative events. Some of my most treasured childhood memories were gathering with family, aunts, uncles, and cousins, at a summer…
New Year’s Resolution? Okay, I’m listening. I mean, I agree there are a number of things that need work, and – What’s that? Me? Oh no no. Someone’s got that backwards. I don’t need to resolve to do anything. However, here are that need to be resolved not BY me but FOR me. It’s probably…
I’m not a fan of New Year’s Eve shows about lists of the blah blah blah from the past year of blah blah blah. I don’t like Top Ten of anything because it can all change the next day. I don’t like New Year’s resolutions, and I don’t like End of the Year retrospectives. However,…
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