Afternoon Delight — which nabbed writer/director Jill Soloway top directing honors at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival — is the kind of movie that you don’t get to just watch and forget about on the ride home. It gets under your skin and into your pores and it makes you think about the big things in a way few stories do. I mean, it’s… Read more →
Category: Movies that are awesome.
The Mother Of All Narrative Cinema; Alice Guy-Blache Finally Gets Her Due
Have you ever heard of Alice Guy-Blache? My friend Julie emailed me about this kickstarter for a documentary about Alice, and I was kind of shocked that I had no idea who she was, to be honest. I mean, not that I know about all the things, but I went to NYU film school where they are very serious about the… Read more →
Demented and Sad, But Social
{via} It was probably 1989when my parents left my sister to babysit me for the first time and she showed me my first John Hughes movie. {via} If I was eight, she was twelve, but her taste in movies was stellar nonetheless. I remember her brandishing the VHS tape and informing me it was the best movie I’d ever see.… Read more →
I Want The Name Of Her Surgeon Because Tinkerbell Looks Incredible For 50
Seriously. Look at those lids: As the story goes, I had just turned three when my best friend and I were both cast as Tinker Bell in the pre-school year end performance of Peter Pan. One set of wings + Two Best Friend Tinker Bells = Two one-winged fairies (or one two-headed fairy, either way, that’s friendship.) At my eighteenth… Read more →
Look Out Music City! I’m Here Now and I Ain’t Never Leavin!
Okay…I’m actually on the plane somewhere over New Mexico I think…and since I left Scott and Dee back in LA, I’d say the chances of me not returning are slim to none, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to shout that phrase from the top of the Opryland Hotel tonight in honor of my favorite (yes, even more favorite… Read more →
Life Moves Pretty Fast…And Apparently So Does a Honda CR-V
(via) Ever since a tantalizing ten seconds of a present-day Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller hit the web last week, speculation over “Super Bowl or Sequel” started spreading like wildfire. And then yesterday morning when the full spot was revealed I was all: “Oh, I am ALL OVER Ferris Bueller today”. But I never expected a two minute super bowl… Read more →
You know what would be super fun?
Inviting all your friends over to watch Bridesmaids, which, unless you live under a rock you probably know was just released on DVD (unrated version included.) At least, that’s what I figured when the folks over at Universal asked me if I wanted to get a little pre-release action in order to get my girls nite on and then tell… Read more →
Official Top Five Favorite Movies of ALL TIME.
It’s a question I’ve grown to dread. I’m never ready for it. No matter how long I’ve been at this gig, no matter how many times I’ve been left feeling like a philistine deer in judge-y headlights, the question catches me so off guard: What are your top five favorite movies of all time? When you come up as a… Read more →
Who doesn’t love free stuff?!
Fantastic Mr. Fox comes out on DVD today, and I have THREE copies to give away to you! THREE! Woot! I’ve always been a Wes Anderson fan on the whole, so I had high hopes that Fantastic Mr. Fox would be a movie I could share with Dee as she grows. It did not disappoint. This movie has… Read more →
It’s officially the future.
I’m on a plane. Like, right now. And my laptop is plugged in, charging, and connected to WiFi. I’ve previously mentioned my love for Virgin America and their fleet of Soul Planes, but until I discovered that they had outlets under the seats, I couldn’t bring myself to pay $12.95 for the 20 minutes of internet use my crap laptop… Read more →