30 Dec
Brad Pitt. Cate Blanchett. Five Golden Globe nominations. So it must be good, right? Well, my birthday was a few days ago, and we went to see the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Here’s the official site and here’s the Rotten Tomatoes page. I liked this movie. It wasn’t perfect but it moved along [...]
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29 Dec
The holiday season and movies. Don’t those two things go together? We rented four movies and bought six more. Don’t panic! The ones we bought were only five dollars each! Here’s what we rented and watched: The Dark Knight – Yeah, the Batman movie with Heath Ledger as The Joker. Has any recent film had this [...]
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18 Dec
“Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon, a private eye with a nose for crime, who’s hot on the case of a murdered cheesemaker in this hardboiled comedy caper”. OK, well, that’s a start. And that’s what the package says. But I recently re-watched this classic comedy film from 1982. I hadn’t seen it since back then, [...]
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14 Dec
The nominees for this year’s Golden Globes awards were announced the other day, for TV and film. And surprise, surprise, my favorite filmmaker Woody Allen (see: My top 11) was recognized. His recent film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” received four nominations! Not only that, one of my other favorites this year, The Coen Brothers’ “Burn After [...]
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02 Dec
My wife and partner, Petra B, will be one of the Swell Sister artists included in a Second Saturday art show, titled Gather The Women. This will be her first time to have a piece of art included in a public showing. Way to go, PB! Her piece is a work of fused glass and [...]
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01 Dec
Happy Birthday to Woody Allen! Woody is one of America’s greatest filmmakers and humorists. A short overview of his life and career is here on Wikipedia. But that does not do it justice. The man has been making very-good-to-outstanding films since the 60s and continues today. And that is not to even mention his books, plays, [...]
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