Every year, D and I host an Academy Awards viewing party at our home, and we amassed a bit of a following in the bay area over the last decade. Now that we’ve moved away, our friends Ken & Jerry…
Category: movies
My new favorite web site: MoviePosterDB.com
I found this site in the process of updating my trivia slides for this year’s Oscar Party, and am now wasting a whole lot of time browsing through the designs for different countries. It’s fun to see what kind of…
Friday Flash Fiction: “The Coronation Will Not Be Televised”
This week’s 512 Words: “The Coronation Will Not Be Televised” You can also listen to the podcast and read the liner notes. I’m sure various news outlets will make a big deal out of Monday being Martin Luther King, Jr….
Golden Boys
“Boos and booze for Cohen and Gervais at Golden Globes,” Metro (UK) “So Kate Winslet’s got two Golden Globes. And hey, she also won a couple of awards tonight. Oh, what? It’s true!” I can only imagine what else Ricky…
You know, going FTL does imply time travel
Back in the 20th century, I got into my head this crazy idea to make a mockumentary about how my friend Bryan had invented faster-than-light travel. It was based on an offhanded comment he made once, about how he wanted…
Xmas Movie Marathon 2008
Every year, on December 25th, D and I spend all day at the movies. We were excited this year because we now live half a mile from Cinetopia, an all-digital venue which is the third best theatre I’ve ever visited.*…
Tired of Xmas Flicks Yet?
I’m not. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)The original animated version, not the Y2K Jim Carrey abomination. D and I just watched this tonight, and what’s not to love? Directed by Chuck Jones, with Boris Karloff narrating and…
Blasts From the Past
Back in the summer of 1991 (after I graduated high school), I hooked up a VHS VCR to a monaural VHS camcorder with flying erase head and manually edited together a music video using footage from my home-taped episodes of…
More Xmas Flicks
Because no one asked for it, but I was thinking about it… Go (1999)Clever, fast-paced fun with Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, and lots of other actors you recognize from their more popular movies. But don’t take…
Xmas Flicks
One of our family traditions is to spend all day at the movies on December 25th. But before then, we like to get in the mood by revisiting some of our favorite holiday films. We don’t always get around to…