The Movie Taken & Human Trafficking
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Movies, Society | 4 Comments »I landed a review gig this week for the movie Taken. I was more excited about the opportunity for paying work and didn't care much what movie it was. I hadn't heard anything about the flick, and the basic premise ...
Reactions to the Movie Waitress: Abuse & Marriage
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Posted in Movies, Society | 3 Comments »I watched the movie Waitress this afternoon, primarily because it stars Nathan Fillion (I like him in just about whatever he's in: Serenity/Firefly, Buffy, the short-lived Drive and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, among others). The movie was good, though it ...
20 Years After Poster Switch
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Yesterday I stumbled across a free rental coupon for Redbox, the $1/day rental machine in McDonald's. I'm a sucker for a free movie, so I started browsing the available movies and came across this: 20 Years After. It's a post-apocalyptic ...
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is Beyond Bizarre
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »I've been thinking about writing a post-apocalyptic fiction novel for National Novel Writing Month, so a couple nights ago I sat down and watched Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Now I chose that movie not because it's the best example of ...
The Top 100 Movies/TV Shows/Music/Books I Don’t Enjoy
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Books, Movies, Music, TV | 5 Comments »Entertainment Weekly released lists of the top 100 movies, TV shows, albums and books of the last 25 years. It's kind of interesting to check out the lists and see how many of the top picks I've seen/listened to/read: Movies: 42/100 TV ...
Prince Caspian: The Book vs. The Movie
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Books, Movies | 2 Comments »On Saturday night I saw the movie Prince Caspian and yesterday I finished rereading the book. Much like the movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I felt like Prince Caspian the movie was so-so. After Peter ...
Back to the Future’s Future is Too Futuristic
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Time for a little more geekery about Back to the Future. While watching part two I couldn't help but notice that the filmmaker's vision of 2015--a mere seven years away--was incredibly advanced. Granted the movie was made in the late ...
On Watching Back to the Future
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »I spent the two days before Christmas watching the complete Back to the Future trilogy (and I'm a little shocked that you can buy the whole thing from Amazon for $20 right now). I haven't seen the movies in a ...
Go See Juno
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Movies | 2 Comments »A little more than a month ago I asked if you could do a funny movie about adoption. The answer? You bet your sweet bippy. We went to see Juno last night, the adoption-related movie penned by the former stripper and ...
Juno: Can You Do a Funny Movie About Adoption?
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Movies | No Comments »From Minnesota--the adoption state--comes stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody and her debut movie, Juno, about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and decides to place her child for adoption (notice a theme?). It's got Rainn Wilson, Michael Cera and some other folks ...
Celebrating my 30th birthday with clean water and a clean shave.
