[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7Vu7cqB20Although I only watched the competitions now and then, I enjoyed the Olympic Games in London hugely. By all accounts, they were especially happy and friendly, and I think you could sense that even from the TV screens.
In an unspecified future a totalitarian government rises to rule a nation known as Panem. Born from the ashes of a United States devastated by war and the after effects of global warming, Panem is made up of twelve districts surrounding the heart of the government, known as The Capital. In lethal vengeance for a…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjAqMewHmxkOscar night is soo exciting – Who wins? Are their acceptance speeches terribly embarrassing? Who wears what dress? – but there’s one ascept to it that makes me sad every year, and that is how few of the films awarded or even nominated I’ve actually seen.
Last month Dabney talked about her resolution to go to one movie a month. I go in streaks with movies. I’ll go for months, sometimes years, without seeing any current films in the theater. And during those periods I’ll only catch the occasional movie on TV. Then, a movie will come out that reminds me…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICMMfc3RZHE&feature=relatedThe first song ever I picked from a soundtrack and which remains a favorite to this day is Don’t You (Forget About Me) by the Simple Minds.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiBVUulE_woI went to see Source Code, director Duncan Jones’s second full-length feature, lured with the promise of a time loop, one of my favorite science fiction plotlines ever. What I got was an excellent film: Lots of excitement (after all, a train explodes repeatedly) but no over-the-top action, a clever plot with only smallish inconsistencies…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atLg2wQQxvU Buzz has quietly been growing for Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s latest romantic comedy. Summer blockbusters don’t tend to appeal to me, so when my friend suggested we see a movie the other night, I chose Midnight in Paris. The movie stars Owen Wilson as Gil, an American aspiring novelist in Paris with his…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY10ZL9eORgLinnieGayl recently wrote about Colin Firth in The King’s Speech. Now that I have seen the movie as well, I would like to talk about Geoffrey Rush. In The King’s Speech, he plays Australian-born speech therapist Lionel Logue, who successfully treated George VI (played by Colin Firth) for his stammer. If you haven’t seen the…
Until a few years ago, I was a huge movie fan. In addition to watching lots of movies via my Netflix subscription, I’d go to at least one current movie a week in the movie theater. That all ended when illness, work, and other real life problems got in the way. Well, finally, after nearly…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hasKmDr1yrA For years, whenever anyone would mention Colin Firth, I would instantly conjure up images of him as Mr. Darcy, in the wonderful BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. This is my perfect version of P&P, and Colin Firth is my image of Mr. Darcy.
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