Time for not only year-end movie lists, but the beginning of decade-end movie lists as well!

With my apologies from the people at Times Online, who have posted their version of the top 100 films of the decade.  Yes, this is a British online magazine, so the tastes may differ, however it’s pretty extensive.  Again, I have marked the ones I have seen and have some of my comments next to [...]

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“Steal a Pencil For Me” Review

I know that there are people that don’t like documentaries.  I know there are people that don’t like subtitled movies.  Conversely, I know that there are people that ONLY watch documentaries or movies with subtitles.  I am neither of these people.  I like all movies, and occasionally I find myself in the mood for a [...]

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Charlie Gibson on Meryl Streep

As heard on tonight’s newscast on the Oscar nominations:
It almost seems as if there are four nominations each year with one spot reserved for whatever role Meryl Streep played in the past year.
(More or less–I wasn’t watching on a TV I could rewind with.)

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A Fitting Eulogy and Must See Movie!

If you haven’t seen the movie Young At Heart yet, please run, don’t walk, to your nearest Blockbuster store or Netflix queue and grab it. It is a heart warming story about a choir consisting of seniors, average age is over 80, who tour while singing songs from The Clash or Sonic Youth or [...]

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I don’t hate Christmas. I just hate a Christmas STORY.

I know. I, a 30-something female that came of age in the 1980s, should love this flick.
I’m sorry. I just don’t.
Sure, Ralphie is cute in his dorkiness. Yes, when I bundle up for football games and cannot lower my arms to my sides we make reference to the snowsuit scene. I have [...]

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A proud member of the non-conforming Christmas movie club

As I’m sure I have made clear, I am a pop culture junkie.  I love movies, the theater, television, books, and just about everything else that makes you believe a story.  Especially movies.  In a not-so-fantastic childhood I was able to escape my own life for hours at a time by living through the characters [...]

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Top 25 Documentary Films

I’ve done movie lists before, from the top 1001 all time to the top 100 modern day must see movies.  This is the first list of documentaries that I have seen.  Interestingly enough, only one or two of them appear on the other two lists.  Many of these are in my Blockbuster queue, ironically enough!
Again, [...]

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Denial is a wonderful thing!

So Thursday, I was home from work by 1pm.  Went through a box of Kleenex.  Friday, no job to go to, went to lunch with an old friend and dinner with a former coworker.  We were supposed to be at dinner to talk about the big hooplah the prior weekend, but given the recent events [...]

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100 Modern Day Must-See Movies

Okay, this is more to my liking.  A while ago I had this post which showed my unbeknownst lack of movie knowledge.  The following is another list of the top 100 by Entertainment Weekly, with the caveat that it had to be released after 1983.  MUCH more to my style, as thus far I have [...]

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Am I Betraying My Gender, Take 2

So a couple weeks ago I wrote about how I had no desire to see the new Sex and the City movie.  And in the last two weeks I have had no fewer than six people ask me to see it.  C, V, C, L, and two other girls all wanted to go.  About the [...]

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1001 Must See Movies

So evidently this list has been making the rounds lately.  I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more of them, as much of a movie hog as I am.  Anyway, here’s the list, which dates up to early 2003.  I’ve marked the ones I’ve seen. Kind of shocking to me that I haven’t seen more, to [...]

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Tuesday night musings

While the states of North Carolina and Indiana are determining the Democratic candidate in the primaries tonight, I went out to the movies with my mom. Originally it was to be a movie only, which then expanded to movie and quick dinner, then when she found out that oysters were on the menu at [...]

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I’m Too Young for Alzheimer’s

I really am.
Friday, leaving work, I had to bang on the locked door of the office to get back in. I had forgotten to get the key to the company car.
Saturday, while I have already confessed to not being a morning person, I left for work and then had to turn around and go [...]

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