Tag Archives: Movies

All Things Pie

Pie on the brain lately! ::  Beth Howard, who has become one of my favorite bloggers, has been working on a book called Making Piece, which is about how she dealt with awful grief (her husband passed away suddenly at … Continue reading

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A lifetime of sitting in the dark

I was nine years old, and I wandered into the living room to find my mother watching some show on PBS. It was a show about movies – there would be a clip of a new movie that was out, … Continue reading

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“Greetings, Programs!”

“The Grid – a digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d … Continue reading

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I could SWEAR there was a Muppet named Elwood.

A couple weeks ago, in one single weekend, The Wife and I watched not one but two movies (along with The Daughter for one of them) with the following plot: guy finds out that an important piece of real estate … Continue reading

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“This isn’t ‘Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.”

I’ve heard for years about The Big Lebowski, enough to know that it’s about a slacker dude who mainly hangs out in a bowling alley. I knew that he was called “The Dude”, and that his most famous line is, … Continue reading

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All heckling to be done by Statler and Waldorf, of course.

Apparently there’s a grassroots movement afoot to get the Muppets brought in to host the Oscars. I endorse this without reservation, because it would be awesome.

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Mr. Williams

Check out this list of Top Ten John Williams filmscores, which actually picks some very interesting scores, including a couple from Williams’s very early career. I haven’t even heard all of them! There are two here that are completely new … Continue reading

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“Be he ne’er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition”

It is St. Crispin’s Day. So go to France and win that battle!

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Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

This is totally sick, and utterly hilarious: How Superman II should have ended. This will appeal to those who never liked how Superman is able to erase Lois Lane’s memory by somehow “magically” kissing her. The standard “Superman grinning at the … Continue reading

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YARRRR!!!

Today was Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is always fun. I mostly observe this on Facebook by, well, talking like a pirate all day, and posting YouTube videos of piratey stuff. Here are the items I posted: Yarrr, I … Continue reading

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