This is a scene outside of the theater where we caught The Cabin in the Woods, which would have been much cooler movie to see at night probably. A fun enough flick.

Watched Submarine. If you like bands like Harold and Maude and Wes Anderson, you might like this movie. (Now on Netflix streaming) Reeled in by a cheap rental price and a convincing trailer, I was pleasantly surprised to find a story, characters and presentation that were absorbing enough to warrant another go round, which is [...]

Hung out with my mom 3 days in a row and it still wasn’t enough! While eating brunch I snapped this photo of her necklace because it was awesome. Semi-related: At one point over the weekend we went to see The Hunger Games with a group of friends. I complained about the shaky camera but was [...]

My friends took their whole family to see The Lorax in 3D and I tagged along. Turns out, it was the first 3D film the youngest had seen and boy was she enthralled. During the previews she kept saying, “Wow!” and reached her hands out the the screen. Ah to have young eyes full of [...]

A 3D movie about a german dancer and choreographer? Sure thing I’d like to see it. Pina was marvelous for the great part. Now I feel like I’m always tempering my take on movies but there were a few moments during this posthumous homage that my butt complained in the seat. But these were very fleeting moments, and the series [...]

Mom is trying to catch all the Oscar nominated ‘Best Films’ and it’s a fairly subdued lot this year. But it’s fun to watch movies so she came over for take out Indian food and we scratched two off the list: “Midnight in Paris” Was a surprise. Thoroughly enjoyable and got the gears spinning how [...]

Tom and I caught The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the Esquire. I’ve heard the books are better as well as the 2009 Swedish film, but those weren’t playing at the time, and I wasn’t going to see The Artist again. (I saw it in Los Angeles and would have loved it… without any hype.) [...]