I’ve been trying to cope all weekend with my disappointment with “Where the Wild Things Are.” Mostly this has involved reading every single review of the movie I can find and hoping it will help me sort out my feelings about this beautiful movie.
Visually the movie is stunning. Every single minute of it is [...]
Movies
18
Oct 09
I wasn’t all that wild about the rumpus
27
Sep 09
I don’t want a new Jessica, and I definitely don’t want twin Junos
When I first heard the news that Diablo Cody was going to write and produce a movie based on my beloved Sweet Valley High books I was incredulous. My first thought was, “if she turns Jessica into Juno, I’m gonna have to cut a bitch.”
As Barrett so kindly pointed out on Facebook, Cody’s project is [...]
7
Jun 09
Up, romanticizing romance
When I took Jaycie & Max to go see “Up” on Friday afternoon, I didn’t expect to be bawling my head off in the first twenty-minutes of the movie. Hell, I hadn’t even worked all the popcorn husks out of my teeth before I was crying like a baby.
While most of the movie is [...]
11
May 09
A short list of movies I actually paid money to see at a theater
Howard the Duck
Mannequin
European Vacation
Harlem Nights
Short Circuit
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Arachnophobia
Dad
Joe verses the Volcano
Crazy People
Dick Tracy
Jetsons: The Movie
25
Mar 09
Annoying traits that are obviously genetic
I’ve got all three Tibbles here at Supergenius HQ today. Yay Springbreak!
After spending 30 minutes playing a game of chess that involved lots of jumping, color commentary, and pieces called the Leprechaun One and the Money, the Tibbles are watching a movie.
They lined up folding chairs in front of the coffee table, grabbed juice boxes, [...]
17
Mar 09
Ten movies every woman should see
Sunday night I was arguing with the OxBoys about movies every woman should watch. It all started from some bullshit Esquire list about records every man should own. From there they started to list movies every man should see from what I remember they included Caddyshack, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and a [...]
9
Aug 08
American girls
I was stunned by the sheer amount of giggling. It was like a wall of giggles. Phil Spector would have been impressed. The last time I had seen the Shakopee Town Square Theater so crowded it was for The Omen on 06/06/06. As we wheeled into the super-secret back parking lot, I fully believed that [...]
12
Jun 08
The Secret Lives of Supergeniuses, inside the DVR
Currently saved on my DVR:
7 episodes of Dawson’s Creek
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Nemo
Grace of My Heart
Monsters, Inc.
1 episode of Scrubs (the musical one)
The Holiday
The Outsiders
Bravo’s A-List Awards
Book TV
3 episodes of A Different World
2 episodes of Curious George
30
May 08
The Sex in the City movie
You will undoubtedly read, hear, or try to avoid something about the Sex in the City movie this week. I did some reading and a lot of avoiding. What I read was not good, and I went to the movie this afternoon* completely prepared to hate the materialistic dreck that so many reviewers had dubbed [...]
4
Jan 08
A matinee for lunch
For lunch today, I went to see Juno. It was filling and good, just like a lunch should be. I can’t tell if I liked the movie so much because it was so damn good, or because Paulie Bleeker reminded me of that Chicagoan who decimated my heart a few years back. It has been [...]
9
Nov 07
And now I can’t stop singing that Tin Man song by America
When I was a kid one of my favorite television events was the annual airing of “Wizard of Oz.” This was, of course, back in the day when it was only on once a year. I am not sure why I loved the movie so much. It actually scared the living shit out of me, [...]
5
Sep 07
The cryingest movie ever made
I’ve decided, sitting here in the dark trying not to fall asleep, that “Mr. Holland’s Opus” while perhaps not the saddest movie ever made (Hotel Rwanda, that Bjork movie I can’t think of the name of. . . many others) is probably the movie that makes you cry the most.
Seriously.
If you don’t cry [...]
4
May 07
Goth Spiderman is still better than Little Miss Sunshine
Last night I discovered that everyone in my entire Vodo class loved that smarmy, predictable dreck of a movie that was “Little Miss Sunshine.” Bleh. At one point Vodo turned to me and said, “Listen Black T-shirt, go blog your bitterness. We’re happy. We celebrate life.” Or some such bullshit.
Anyway, Johnny the Greek (new favorite [...]
30
Aug 02
working for the weekend
so the bossman said i could boot outta here early– his only request make it seem semi-respectable. so i’m staying for another hour.
of course most of this last hour has already been filled with discussing my movie-viewing options with shawn. i really, really want to see one-hour photo or the good girl, but i [...]
9
May 02
all walls are great if the roof doesn’t fall
that last episode of er was a killer. man, i haven’t sobbed that much in a good long while. it felt nice. i’m not much of an er fan at all. i’ve probably watched a handful of episodes in its entire run. somehow i always manage to catch the ‘very special episodes.’ then i end [...]
