Happy Thursday everyone! I've been seeing posts on the weekly Thursday Movie Picks that's spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog, but I haven't been able to participate. Well until now that is. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks …
Continue reading Thursday Movie Picks #32: Oscar-Winning Movies
Special thanks to Iba from I Luv Cinema for her Sundance review! Ah, the western - on its surface, it would seem it is not to my favorite cinematic genre. But upon further examination, I must admit it has produced some of my all time favorite films (High Noon, Unforgiven, The Searchers, The Ox Bow …
The Oscars is just a week away, folks! Well, a week ago, as I was listening to 99.5 Classical MPR they were playing my favorite score from Titanic and I knew I had to make a post of it. For this post I'm focusing more on the instrumental themes instead of the songs, hence my exclusion …
Continue reading Music Break: Ten Favorite Oscar-Winning Film Scores
Valentine's Weekend is awesome this year as it's a company holiday on Monday for President's Day, who doesn't love a three-day weekend right? Hope you had a lovely V-day wherever you are. It was super cold Saturday night so we opted for some scrumptious Thai take-out and watched Nightcrawler, that's the kind of perfect *night in* …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup & Kingsman: The Secret Service review
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! My blog buddy Cindy Bruchman and I have been thinking about collaborating on a post and since V-day is around the corner, we decided on a topic about cinematic love stories that are dear to our hearts. We're talking about films that has a love story that we often revisit again and again because it touches …
Continue reading Valentine Special – A Dozen Cinematic Romances We LOVE
Special thanks to Iba from I Luv Cinema for her Sundance review! Boy the things you learn when you decide to just hop in and catch a film. For instance, I did not know that there was a source material to this three-hander, post-apocalyptic drama. Z for Zachariah, directed by Sundance veteran Craig Zobel, is …
Continue reading Guest Post: Sundance review of Z for Zachariah
Today I'm moving up the age bracket. I'm taking the day off because well, it's my ME DAY and sleeping in is one of life's greatest joys 😉 Well, four years ago I did this list of favorite movies from the past three [full] decades I've lived through, so basically from the 1980s to 2000s. Looking at the list, …
Continue reading Birthday List Update: Favorite Films from Each Decade I Live Through
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