Today my office has a department-wide outing to go curling. The St. Paul Curling Club – founded in 1888 – is the largest curling club in the country with over 1,200 members. I'm not actually going to participate, but it's really quite fun to watch people play from behind the glass window. Just like golf, …
Continue reading Random Flix Spotlight: Men with Brooms – apparently there is a movie about curling!
I've been having a serious case of Spring fever of late – as practically everybody in my neck of the woods – as we seem to be skipping March and goes directly to May. The Twin Cities have had NO SNOW the entire month, not even any real wind chill to speak off. I mean, …
Continue reading Scene Spotlight: Changing seasons – Notting Hill
It's too early to start my Top Ten Anticipated 2011 Flicks, but this one will surely be on that list. I'm certainly psyched more for the supporting cast than the leads. When I first heard about it as far back as last November, it was still a 'revolving-door' sort of project with directors and cast …
Thanks to Andy from Fandango Groovers who reminded me that last Sunday 3/21 was Timothy's 66th birthday. In honor of the actor, the James Bond enthusiast blogger posted this brilliant idea about a revolutionary James Bond flick starring Mr. Dalton as the older British spy, with Colin Farrell as 006 and Quentin Tarantino at the …
Hello, welcome to the first edition of Scene Spotlight. I was looking at this old post I did back when this blog first started, where I list 20 movie scenes I could watch over and over again, and I thought why not make it a regular post? I'm thinking a couple of times a month. …
Continue reading Scene Spotlight: ‘The Grand Entrance’ – The Count of Monte Cristo
I haven't done a top-ten list in a while. I meant to post this last week around St. Paddy's day, but took me a while to finish it. Well, as the green dye in the Chicago river hasn't completely washed out, I hope you don't mind reading another Irish-related post. Here's my list of ten …
From the first time I heard about this project at its conception last year, I wasn't psyched that my fave actor once again entered rom-com territory. Not because he isn't funny or charming enough to pull it off, but after the abysmal The Ugly Truth, the script is likely going to be another stinker. TUT …
Continue reading The Bounty Hunter review (a.k.a. my open letter to Gerard Butler)
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