I have a little bit of free time, so I was able to put in some movie time. Here's three movies I've watched lately, in the order I watched them: Feature 1: The Lorax. My daughter received a few movies for Christmas and this was the first one she wanted to watch. I have not read the book, so I didn't know what it was about, but Sam said it was this book that made her learn that humans are capable of hurting the environment. The makers of Despicable Me made this movie, which made me think I Read more [...]

It seems I haven't gotten over my horror movie fixation since October was done and it's just carried over into December. It also seems that I've now watched two movies in a row now that depict our jolly ol' cookie-eating, toy-toting, bearded friend as an evil killer of sorts. This movie had me convinced, the whole sleigh-ride through, until it veered way off course at the end. So, like my last post about evil Santa, this one was also European (Finnish) and this time, it had subtitles, so I wasn't Read more [...]

Which films would you rather have worked on?

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When you look at the list of potential Oscar nominees this year, a simple romantic comedy like Silver Linings Playbook is easy to overlook. It's not a period piece, there's no CGI, and probably the most outrageous costuming in the entire film is when Bradley Cooper throws a garbage bag over his sweatshirt when he's going for a run with a football. Photo Credit: nextmovie.com Aside from my time with a tiger on a lifeboat in 2006, SLP is the most easy to relate to my own life, which is probably Read more [...]

I really don't think I've watched this much Christmas-horror in my life! This one's available on Netflix instant, too! This one was called Saint Nick. Doesn't sound scary, does it? Unlike my last Xmas-horror film, I actually kind of liked this one. I didn't think I would at first, as the Xmas-horror genre doesn't exactly put out Academy Award nominees, but Saint Nick, or sometimes called just Saint, did a really good job of setting up tension at the beginning and not showing exactly what was Read more [...]