Weekend Roundup: Somewhere and Super 8

You can call it the 'Elle Fanning movie weekend' 😀 I had never seen her in anything, and suddenly within one weekend, I saw two movies starring Dakota's 13-year-old little sister. I didn't think I'd have time to see two movies this weekend given how busy things got, but we had to watch Somewhere as …

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Weekend Roundup and The Way Back review

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope everyone's had a lovely weekend. I definitely enjoyed my 3-day weekend though it sure went by real fast. I took a much-needed break from my computer which including blogging and reading other people's blogs, though I had planned on seeing more movies but only managed to see two of them. One …

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Weekend Roundup: Five Minutes of Heaven and JJ Abram’s Star Trek

I hope y'all had a lovely and storm-free (weather or otherwise) weekend. Boy, the weather's been strange this weekend, it couldn't decide whether it wants to be rainy or sunny, so it alternated back and forth practically every half an hour! There's even some strong storms hitting our neck of the woods, even a tornado …

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Weekend Roundup: Never Let Me Go review

Welcome to May, everybody. For having endured a pretty cold and snowy Winter, I'm certainly glad Spring has arrived and Summer is upon us! I was fortunate enough to watch not one but two excellent sci-fi movies this weekend, a genre I like especially if it's the thought-provoking kind. And both Never Let Me Go …

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Weekend Roundup: Local Film Festival News & Movies I watched

It was quite a busy weekend I just had, dampened a bit by a coating of snow on the ground Saturday morning. Our local weatherman Paul Douglas aptly called it groan-worthy, and we now have a Winter alert with possible 3-5 inches of snow in the next 36 hours! Heh, so much for Spring 😦 …

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Weekend Roundup: HANNA review

I finally venture out into the theater after about a month of a lot of home cinema viewing. All the great reviews on HANNA got me really curious to check it out on opening weekend. It wasn't powerful enough to defeat HOP in the box office, but managed to finish second with $12.4 million, which …

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Weekend Roundup: Rockin’ w/ Scott Pilgrim and Getting all Tangled up

Happy Monday! Hope y'all enjoyed a wonderful April Fools Weekend and nobody pulled a prank on ya. It felt quite Spring-y over the weekend but today it's back to parka-weather with rain and high winds 😦 Just a quick box office news, looks like Hop was a heapin' success for Universal this weekend with $38 …

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