The Top 100 Movies/TV Shows/Music/Books I Don’t Enjoy
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Music, Reading is Fun, Saturday Matinee, Stupid TV, Be More Funny | 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 Reading is Fun, Saturday Matinee | 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 Saturday Matinee | 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 Saturday Matinee | 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, Saturday Matinee | 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, Saturday Matinee | 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 ...
Parents: What’s the Best Viewing Order for Star Wars?
Friday, September 28th, 2007 Posted in Saturday Matinee | 1 Comment »Jason Kottke posed an interesting question on his blog: In what order should a parent show their child the Star Wars movies? Kottke rarely opens his entries up to comments, but for this one he opened the floodgate and so ...
Addicted to Sci-Fi
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 Posted in Reading is Fun, Saturday Matinee | 2 Comments »In addition to my blog bender, I'm on a bit of sci-fi bender of late. I've always liked sci-fi. For the longest time Star Wars was my favorite movie and it was only dethroned by another sci-fi flick (Serenity). But ...
Arr, Pirates! Groan, Bratz!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in Saturday Matinee | No Comments »Went to see Pirates 3 on Saturday night (if you want my take you can check my quick review) and I think my favorite part had to be the collective groan when the title was revealed at the end of ...
Ice Bound on Last Flight Out
Friday, March 9th, 2007 Posted in Saturday Matinee | No Comments »A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I worked for an organization that produced the movie Last Flight Out. I've talked before about how horrible the movie is and perhaps it holds a special place in my ...
