Browsing the archives for the Movies category
Had the chance to watch the movie “Pushing Tin” again last night. I watched it a couple years ago and thought it was good but not great. I do like Billy Bob Thornton and I really like John Cusack. I guess I just have a hard time feeling any sympathy for their characters – they [...]
Even with the writer’s strike over there is not much on TV that I find interesting anymore. So I’m hitting the DVD shelf and watching movies each night. The cool thing about falling asleep to a DVD is that it plays decent music when its over and waiting for you to push start again. The [...]
Last night’s movie was a total chick flick, “Under the Tuscan Sun” with Diane Lane. A college professor discovers her husband is cheating on her and gets divorced. He gets the house and everything in it. She falls into a deep depression, and her girlfriend intervenes by sending her on a trip to Italy. She [...]
About 20 years ago a spectacular movie about aliens coming to earth was in the theatres, called “E.T.” It was great for families and had a lot of special effects, but the story was the magic behind that movie. To think that an alien would be discovered by and make friends with a boy around [...]
Recently I was bored out of my mind with TV and decided to watch a movie. Normally, I like action movies like Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis films, or comedies. For some reason I picked the movie, Sideways, starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh. It was a strange movie and [...]