TL;DR: I care about the Academy Awards and I care about data reporting. This year’s Oscar nominations (honoring films released in 2016) were announced on January 24th, and ever since then I’ve been checking Oscars.org periodically to see if they’ve…
Category: movies
#Xmasmoviethon Index, 2016 Edition
Every year around Christmastime, DeeAnn and I spend an entire day at the movies seeing as many first-run shows as we can. Here are some statistics recounting how we spent our Boxing Day this year… (with apologies to Harper’s) Movies…
Saturday Night #LongKiss2016
WHAT: livetweeting movie THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHTWHEN: 8:00PM Pacific Time (UTC/GMT-8) on December 24th (Xmas Eve)HASHTAG: #LongKiss2016 You may recall this film from Day 15 of #42Movies, my birthday blog series last year. A few of our live-tweet participants have…
Tonight is #DieHardEve
ETA (1:00 PM): MOAR commentators, and embedded Twitter search results 🙂 Tonight, starting at 9:30 PM Pacific Time, you’re invited to our first ever… Christmas Eve DIE HARD livetweet extravaganza! Search for #DieHardEve on Twitter to see commentary from various…
#42Movies Post-Mortem
It is a testament to the insignificance of this blog that not one reader complained about my film selections over the last few weeks. 🙂 Or maybe I was just very clear at the start of 42 Moves in 21…
#42Movies, Day 21: Puzzle Hunts
This is not a clue. OR IS IT? No, it’s not. Swearsies: Midnight Madness (1980)andThe Game (1997) Hints and solution after the trailers. j/k! 😉 https://youtu.be/gLusAy-aOJY https://youtu.be/dLauqDChQGs For the record, that trailer for Midnight Madness is terrible and tells you…
#42Movies, Day 20: Emily Blunt’s Time Machine
She’s a brick house. As shown here: Looper (2012)andEdge of Tomorrow (2014) Let it all hang out after the trailers. https://youtu.be/2iQuhsmtfHw https://youtu.be/yUmSVcttXnI Here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to do a double feature of these two amazing films,…
#42Movies, Day 19: What A Twist!
Are you surprised to see… *THESE* TWO MOVIES AS A DOUBLE FEATURE??? The Mask (1994)andThe Prestige (2006) Major spoilers after the trailers. https://youtu.be/hOqVRwGVUkA https://youtu.be/ijXruSzfGEc For the record: I don’t care that much about spoilers. That’s not to say that I…
#42Movies, Day 18: A Very Specific Milieu
Setting is everything here: Office Space (1999)andMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Take a tour after the trailers. https://youtu.be/3_fG_zLbBeU https://youtu.be/pfSL5uZO22c I knew next to nothing about both of these movies when I walked into them. For…
#42Movies, Day 17: At the Movies with DeeAnn
If you want to understand my wife, it might help to know that these are two of her favorite movies: Zero Effect (1998)andMumford (1999) Backstory after the trailers. https://youtu.be/eSH8Y3h5j-g https://youtu.be/ed0SqVbiyBw First order of business: both of these films are much…