Last week, Roger Ebert tweeted 'Why haven't Helen Mirren and Judi Dench ever made a Harry Potter film?' Hmmm, good question, Mr. Ebert... why haven't they? I certainly would LOVE to see both of them in at least one or two installments. Then a few days later, I read a piece of news report about …
Continue reading British Acting Royalty on Harry Potter Movies: My Top Ten Favorites
After months anticipating this, I wasn't going to wait another week to check this out. Early Saturday afternoon, hubby and I made our way to the cinema to see an HP movie for the first time on the big screen. The gist of the story of the last installment of the series center on how …
Continue reading Musings on Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part I
Happy Friday, all! Man, I can't believe this is the last weekend before Turkey Day. My company gives away free frozen turkey every year, and the voucher is already available for pickup. I had a Harry Potter-related post for today but I couldn't finish it in time, so save that for early next week. Anybody …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin’: Five blog links for your reading pleasure
I'm sure you've all heard about Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement this week. I had no idea they've been dating for more than eight years, sounds like their romance is the stuff that dreams are made of. I haven't been following news about them pretty closely, but from the occasional tidbits I heard, they …
Continue reading Top Five Favorite Movies about British Monarchs
Welcome to a new edition of From Vision to Film, courtesy of my pal Ted S., the movie connoisseur and walking movie encyclopedia 😀 We always try to be timely with this post series, so we're posting it today to coincide with Russell Crowe's new movie The Next Three Days (read my full review) and …
Continue reading Guest Post – From Vision to Film: American Gangster
I was driving home the other day and heard Tchaikovsky's ballet score The Sleeping Beauty and almost instinctively started humming away. It's such as highly infectious score that you'd be hard pressed NOT to hum to its waltz-like theme after you listen to it. I adore Disney's Sleeping Beauty, the music is such an integral …
Continue reading Music Break: Sleeping Beauty – Once Upon A Dream
Hello all, happy Monday! Well, well, well, Winter definitely arrived like a lion here in the beautiful state of Minnesota. Yes I still call it beautiful despite the grumbling of crazy weather swing from gorgeous Fall weather of mid 60s to a major snowstorm with about 8 inches of snow when it's said and done …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: Snowstorm makes for a cozy home theater viewing
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