Last year, we went to the Cinemark for an entire week. We watched several great movies (Phantom Thread, Get Out), several good movies (Lady Bird, Dunkirk), and several movies I have forgotten. In 2019, the Best Picture nominees (outside of Roma, which the movie theaters decided to not re-show in a stand against Netflix) revolved around several similar …
I spend a lot of time on Twitter for cultural references. Since we do not watch a lot of television, we miss a lot of good content. I follow a lot of LGBT individuals and I learn all about Drag Race (which I have never seen). A number of people said that the movie Love, …
I gave Brian a bit of an ultimatum. I wanted something for Valentine’s Day, but I was not going to tell him what. He prefers when I tell him exactly what I like because he claims that I generally buy what I like. And he hit a home run. He bought me (and him) the …
When you go to a small liberal arts college in rural America, a trip to Walmart, Kmart, or Target became a big adventure. Many weekend nights would include a ride to Appleton to shop. Since it was the early 2000s, I still had a VCR. But I did not use it to do anything besides …
Philomena is not a scary movie. It’s a heart-warming tale about a woman discovering what may have happened to the son that was taken away from her in Ireland. I wanted to see it as Steve Coogan is one of my favorites. And my mom wanted to go. I rarely go to the movies with …
I use my cell phone almost all day. I am constantly reading, searching, texting, communicating, and playing with it. I try to dedicate at least an hour a day where I am not within five feet of it. And that is hard. I want to play music out of it or do something at all …
My mom introduced me to the music of Les Miserables when I was growing up. Mandy Patinkin sang I Dreamed a Dream. And I needed more. PBS shows a concert special. I wanted to watch it. I would walk around singing Stars for days. I would sing Who Am I? as I walked to school. …
I was not that big of a fan of The Dark Knight. It was a little too dark for me. I thought the story was really well done and I liked the first two hours, but the last hour with the introduction of Two-Face didn’t work for me. And in the beginning of The Dark …
To alleviate the guilt I will have when I see The Avengers, I will follow David Brother’s post and donate to The Hero Initiative. Here is the idea: So how about this: You’re probably going to go see The Avengers and, judging by the early reviews, you’ll probably enjoy it. How about – as a …
When I was growing up, I read a lot of Hardy Boys books that were written more recently called Casefiles. They were more pulpy than the old Hardy Boy books – less smugglers. But I never got into old fashioned pulp. I turned to Agatha Christie novels and noir books instead. And that has always …