I never would have expected this.

Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary film from Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman about his personal quest to recover his lost memories from his service in the 1982 Lebanon War ( Read more... )

We've seen some good movies over the past few weeks, and some not-so-good ones as well. I'm challenging myself to see how quickly I can crank out reviews of all of them.

First up - Charlie Wilson's WarThis is the fascinating true story of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson (played by Tom Hanks), telling how he worked the system to fund the " ( Read more... )

serolynne and I paid a visit to Sacramento this weekend, dropping some stuff off in storage and spending some quality time visiting with our dear friend Lindsay.

Friday night we went and enjoyed some rocking lounge music and cocktails at the Back Door in old Sacramento.

And earlier tonight, the three of us went and saw the new movie Slumdog ( Read more... )

Into the Wild tells the true story of Christopher McCandless and his tragic quest to challenge himself and rebel against modern society by journeying alone and almost entirely unprepared into the deep Alaskan wilderness in the summer of 1992 ( Read more... )

The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie chronicling the amazing true story of Christopher Gardner - a man who in the early 80's struggled to complete a grueling unpaid internship to become a stock broker while being personally broke, living on the streets as a homeless single father ( Read more... )

Camped with the Oliver Road Crew over the weekend at the International Camel Races in Virginia City, NV - we did a little bit of DVD trading.

We loaned Pam and David the underwhelming sequel-to-a-classic 2010, and they gave us the 2007 fantasy film Stardust to watch for our evening entertainment ( Read more... )

Saturday night serolynne and I had a bunch of friends over for party, and then on Sunday we went out to see Iron Man with a bunch of the out-of-town stragglers who stayed over.

It rocked.

Great characters, fun special effects, and an ass-kicking super hero. Iron Man takes the typical summer blockbuster formula, and executes it nearly perfectly ( Read more... )

After seeing Sweeney Todd Friday night, smoocherie and I were in desperate need for some light-hearted entertainment on Saturday that did not involve slit throats or cannibalism.

Fortunately, swdev and Heather had left behind the animated Dreamwork's movie Madagascar in our DVD player earlier in the week (it had been put to use entertaining their daughter), and ( Read more... )

Right now I am headed south towards a Disneyland rendezvous with Lindsay tomorrow.

Presently stopping for lunch at the always amazing Casa de Fruta on the Pacheco Pass between Gilroy and Los Banos ( Read more... )

I had a great time walking around San Luis Obispo last nigh with my friend dandyloo, and late in the evening we managed a rendezvous for some frozen yogurt with Lindsay and Sean who were also in SLO for Sean's sister's graduation this weekend. After the yogurt was packed away - we all decided to head out to see whatever movie happened to be playing next ( Read more... )