Archive for the 'movies' Category

January 28th, 2010

Top Movies

They keep saying Avatar has made the most @ the boxoffice, but lets be honest, a date to see Avatar at the 3D imax cost me 26$ for tickets alone.  We could have bought almost 4 regular tickets for that price, let alone what it cost when Gone With the Wind was in theaters.
Here’s the [...]

January 25th, 2010

Whopper Bar

The Whopper Bar will sell beers from Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors alongside its Whoppers and fries in an effort to compete with casual dining restaurants in areas with high pedestrian traffic. Beer options will include Budweiser, Bud Lite, Bud Lite Lime and Miller Lite.
via Burger King to Sell Beer at ‘Whopper Bar’ in Miami – Slashfood.
Awesome.
I [...]

July 8th, 2009

Movies Galore

Last Wednesday we went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with our friend Steve.  There were bad reviews, but I just don’t think that the critics were taking the movie with a big enough “grain of salt.”  It was an exciting movie, sure, some parts were groan worthy, but the action sequences were exciting [...]

June 19th, 2009

Pixar grants girl’s dying wish

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, [...]

June 19th, 2009

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds Gets Down to Skin for Entertainment Weekly – Towleroad

So, there is no way that I would want to see The Proposal based on its merits as a film, but I might watch it because Ryan Reynolds is nice to look at.  Turns out he is married to another supposed Hollywood “hottie” Scarlett Johansson.  [...]

February 23rd, 2009

He’s Just Not That Into You

Anna: You have an ass that makes me wanna dry hump!
Ben: Did you just say ‘Dry hump’?
Anna: Yep.
Ben: I think I just fell in love.
via He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) – Memorable quotes.
The IMDB rank for He’s Just Not That Into You gives it a 6.6/10 currently, but I think they need to [...]

January 28th, 2009

Prayers for Bobby

Well guess what? They are wrong, wrong, wrong. If Focus on the Family can convince a network to make a movie in which they defend the figurative blood that is on the “ex-gay” proponents’ hands, then they have every right. However, Prayers For Bobby is not that story. This is one specific instance in which [...]

November 16th, 2008

The Dark Knight

Movie Showtimes – Google Search
The Dark Knight
2hr 30min – Rated PG-13 – Action/Adventure
1:00 1:30 4:15 4:45 7:30 9:25pm
I still haven’t seen The Dark Knight, I’m trying to get together a trip to the dollar theater.  Or it might just be a date, I’m not sure; but either way I wanna [...]

October 6th, 2008

Back in the Groove

I am still working on getting back in the groove of things but I am pretty much all better.
Basically this is how it happened:
Tuesday I went to the doctor(20$ co-pay) because my foot hurt and I wanted to make sure I didn’t break it.  She sent me for an x-ray (25$) and told me to [...]

August 26th, 2008

GLBT Movies

Outing Riley 2004
Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he’s at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads.
not really sure what to say about this one, I enjoyed it [...]

August 22nd, 2008

The Curiosity of Chance

The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
We actually watched this one before we watched Kinky Boots.  I really liked this movie and I am fairly certain it ranks highly for Kevin as well.
High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980’s — and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. The new kid at school, [...]

August 15th, 2008

Kinky Boots

I have watched a bunch of gay themed movies lately, but I haven’t really gotten around to writing about them.
Kevin and I watched Kinky Boots (2005) the other day and we both liked it.
While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret [...]

August 9th, 2008

how ‘homophobic’ are you?

frontline: assault on gay america: how ‘homophobic’ are you?
In 1996, as part of his study on homophobia, Dr. Henry Adams and his colleagues at the University of Georgia developed their own “Homophobia Scale” by modifying scales used by other researchers in earlier studies. It’s a 25-item questionnaire “designed to measure your thoughts, feelings and behaviors [...]

July 21st, 2008

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises (2007)
The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai, who is tied to one of London’s most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into [...]

May 12th, 2008

PA for the weekend

I went to PA for the weekend.  Kevin and I had waffles Friday morning, then I got around to leaving at 11ish.  The drive home was mostly uneventful, there was light rain almost the whole way.
About a mile north of PA traffic came to a sudden halt.  We sat there for a while; I even [...]