I saw a wonderful movie tonight, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" about a young man in India who starts a retirement home luring people who are disappointed and/or in their retirement. I won't tell you what happens in case you want to see it, but I have to share this quote ( Read more... )

RAW FAITHA Special Evening of Film and Discussion ( Read more... )

Are you or do you know someone who is "special"? Ever have trouble with numbers? Or English? Can you imagine learning 2 languages as a child, like many non-Americans, instead of just English like most Americans? I saw a movie you might like. It's rated PG, so the whole family can watch it, but it's subtitled so you need to read while you watch it ( Read more... )

My minister, Bruce, is a great sermon-giver - well it helps that he has 25 yrs. experience, I suppose. He told a good one today based on a song and was an auction-winner's request, which will be online soon. But I just read last week's sermons since I was working with the youth group last week. It was based on the movie "The Invention of Lying" ( Read more... )

We watched it before, but didn't remember the details of it, so we watched it again. It's depressing, so maybe that's why we forgot. But "Babel", a 2006 movie written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (both Mexican) is a wonderfully constructed movie about privilege, classism, and communication problems - personal and ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to see the latest Woody Allen movie, Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona. We've gone to Woody Allen movies together since 1971 & have seen most of them. This one we expected to be a little better than it was due to the ratings on IMDb. It wasn't a comedy really as it is listed, though there were a few laughs; it's more of a romance drama ( Read more... )

We finally saw it! You can read about the movie vs. the true story on Wikipedia. My favorite quote is: "The time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!" A lot has changed since 1935, but we still have our work cut out for us. How many debaters do you know?! It was good to see there was a young ( Read more... )

How are you spending the day? The idea is to do community service work &, to be honest, I'm not planning on going out today, but I do community service work almost every day and I do it via email and web development besides organizations I belong to, so I'll probably be doing it today, too. I will be encouraging people to attend the new Davies ( Read more... )

I just saw "The Weather Man". I thought most of the movie was depressing and was thinking about changing the channel, but there wasn't anything better on. In the end, I liked it - a little sappy, but I was in the mood for sappy. I'm nursing an ear infection and have laryngitis. My cold started over 2 weeks ago and the sea air on my first cruise to ( Read more... )

I watched "Heart of the Beholder" again, with my mother-in-law this time - the owner of the film sent me a DVD after I did all the blogging about it before. As we watched the film, I went to the St. Louis Dispatcher newspaper online at the public library (an online friend in St. Louis gave me his login info - isn't the internet great!). Here are ( Read more... )