See This Instead

The posters and previews for I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell are slowly killing my soul.

I’m sure this appeals to a demographic of people out there (the crowd who gets off on the whole “Men Behaving Badly” genre) and to each his own, I say. I know I won’t be in the theaters for [...]

Lying to George

He’s the sort who can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn’t know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn’t want you to be real, and to think and to [...]

Our Dearest, Sweetest, Most Precious Friends To The North

Oh, Canada. You lovely, lovely lady. I have fond memories of you, courtesy of both my parents- my mother took me to Vancouver and Victoria to celebrate my 25th birthday, just the two of us. I fell in love with your clean air and your friendly people. And my father? My father once forced us [...]

I Could Use a Little Strength Today…

I am a teacher! I am a teacher, first, last, always! Do you imagine that for one instant I will let that be taken from me without a fight? I have dedicated, sacrificed my life to this profession. And I will not stand by like an inky little slacker and watch you rob me of [...]

Movie Monday

Last night, I laid on the couch bored and restless. Nothing was of interest to me- the way you feel when someone asks you what kind of food you want to eat and you shrug, agitated. “Nothing sounds good.”
I flip-flopped between Aliens, Walk the Line and an old Top Gear episode. I’d start one, get [...]

The Crazy Eyes’ Wife

Went to go see The Proposal with some friends on Saturday (two thumbs up btw) and was first ambushed by a preview for The Time Traveler’s Wife. Instantly, I grabbed my friend’s arm and I think I must’ve had some serious crazy eyes because she immediately looked like she should call for help. “Did you [...]

How I Can Waste Even MORE Time

Sweet. Jehosophat.

TCM has a social networking site for classic movie fans. I just drooled on my keyboard, second time today.

A Slight Monday Rant

We’re all about the new Pixar movie Up today at Creme Headquarters and I think it’s especially delicious that both Cones and myself managed to see it in opposite corners of the globe.

As usual when I leave a Pixar movie, I wiped a stray tear out of the corner of my eye and my mind [...]

Why Do We Love What We Love

I haven’t talked about movies in a while here and, for some reason, In America, one of my top ten favorites, has been haunting me lately and I don’t really know why.
The story of an Irish family who moves to Hell’s Kitchen in the early ’80s, In America is a semi-autobiographical story from director Jim [...]

Inappropriate, That

It’s 80 degrees out, the sun is booming, the sky is so blue it’s about to crack and I’m sitting at my computer, watching Little Women.
It figures. Chicago finally admits that winter is over and I have to fuss over a movie that screams snow and Christmas.

Actually, it’s kind of fitting. The girls sit, trying [...]