Ursulav did a fantastic write up of the movie here: http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1553119.html

It is quite manly.

I loved Pitch Black, and I love Chronicles of Riddick, so when my best friend said she wanted to see Riddick as her birthday present I was all over it. I happened to see they were having an advance screening last night, so we went to it ( Read more... )

We had a good visit this weekend at Mom's.


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We've had an amazing run of being able to watch movies here lately. It's kind of rare, since both boys rarely go to bed at a reasonable hour, and I usually fall asleep or don't want to stay up so late watching a movie ( Read more... )

I finished The Hunger Games trilogy this morning. Something bothered me through the whole series, although I do think it was fairly well done and a hell of a lot better than Twilight (full disclosure: I haven't read Twilight ( Read more... )

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I just wasted part of my life watching Hardwired - a movie starring Val Kilmer and Cuba Gooding, Jr. I know what happened to Val (he got fat and everyone got over him) but what happened to Cuba? I like Cuba. It's the reason I put the movie on our Netflix. But oh god, was it bad. And not even bad in a good way ( Read more... )

I was all excited about getting Avatar on Bluray today since Mom hasn't seen it and she's coming to visit this weekend and we could all watch it together. Then I got to the store and realized that there are no special features. None. At all. The DVD version doesn't have any, and the only thing the Bluray has is a copy of the DVD version ( Read more... )

I love the Olympics. If you're like Mom and I and had visions of rocking a moose hat from the opening ceremonies we're out of luck. Mom wrote Ralph Lauren and they basically said they had no idea they'd be so popular and they aren't making any more. I bet some knockoffs turn up somewhere. If you see one, point it my way. Or maybe one of my knitter ( Read more... )

I need to get skinny so I can sew and wear all the fabulous things I want from old movies. I was watching Rear Window last night and drooling over Grace Kelly's clothes. Especially this black and white dress:


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