*cue song of the same title from Dr Horrible soundtrack ( Read more... )

Just got back from the midnight showing...unfortunately even over an hour early and 3 open theatres, we could only sit in the 2nd row center...boy does my neck hurt! It was also out of focus that close, but there's a lot of soft focus anyway, and it is set in overcast Washington state, so I guess it could have been worse. Of course there are ( Read more... )

I was able to get enough people for a Tuesday night Cinema Brittahytta & potluck BBQ, so about 11 of us had eaten, chatted with cocktails & cider, started the firepit, and gotten comfy in our chairs & blankets, voting on a smaller scale picture this time to try out Sheila's vintage portable movie screen, and the side gate was still open since ( Read more... )

"Star Trek" enlists Saldana in Uhura role

I'm not sure I can handle Sylar as Spock? ;) There seem to be some flashbacks in store, since Nimoy is also credited as Spock so far on IMDB...at least that's something ( Read more... )

Tonight was the inaugural Cinema Brittahytta and everyone had a great time!

( What, pray tell. is Cinema Brittahytta, you ask? )

I guess last week's story was another case of a rumor getting picked up by national sources & spread around like wildfire...J.J Abrams spoke to Empire magazine about the truth here:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18614

(via Melanie who read this ( Read more... )

New Years Eve was with Robin & Cyd at their friend Kevin's house, just the 4 of us, but we had fun. Robin & Cyd insisted I finally watch Buckeroo Banzai to the end to round-out my "geek" quotient (I had seen it once way back when during a party so couldn't hear well let alone there was alcohol of course!), so that was successful! Funny movie, ( Read more... )

The tickets were never purchased in person for the midnight IMAX show at the Metreon and they're already sold out (someone had volunteered to go there vs. us paying the online fee), so now I'm scrambling to see when I'm going to see Goblet of Fire...The rest of the "normal" local HP crew is going on Saturday when we're having the garage sale, and ( Read more... )