Entries Tagged as ‘Film Discussion’

June 29, 2010

27 Before 27

 My glass is always half full. So, with my love of lists and extreme optimism on my part, I have started thinking about things I have wanted to do. I decided that some of these things would never be done if I didn’t have a deadline, so i decided to make a list of things [...]

May 28, 2010

Take Five Friday: 100 Degrees and Feelin Fine

photo credit I think I’ve used this picture before, but I love the idea of drinking in kiddie pools so much. Well it has finally hit that spot of the year. For some amazing reason, here in the Phoenix area we have managed to have an extreeeeemely mild spring – an actual spring of several months! [...]

May 7, 2010

Take Five Friday: Link Day

Me and Philip’s best (only) glasses. See explanation below. In the spirit of Gala Darling’s Carousel, CagePotato’s Link Dump, FilmDrunk’s Friday Free for All and Warming Glow’s Weekend Preview, today I will be Taking Five to appreciate the instantaneous joy that is internet linkage. This post is really old (in Internet time), but I love [...]

April 8, 2010

Recipe for a Perfect Day

I like to think of perfect day recipes as a starting point for inexhaustible ideas for a bunch of mini-ideal days. Perfect days have no time limits, store hours, money problems and all that other real world stuff that makes a perfect day daunting if you think of it responsibly. But I have never been [...]

March 8, 2010

Letter to Someone I Admire: Kathryn Bigelow

photo credit Dearest Kathryn, Congratulations. This makes Point Break even more badass. I know you aren’t particularly excited to be a trailblazer for women directors, because really, it shouldn’t be such a surprising and novel thing that a woman can direct something as through-provoking and badass as a man. I would grow weary of having to answer “woman [...]

March 3, 2010

Oscar Time! My Top Movies of 2009

photo credit Since Sunday will be the Academy Awards ceremony, I thought I would write about my favorite movies of the year. I didn’t realize I had seen so many movies last year. Nor did I fully realize, until starting research on this post, that so many good movies were released last year that I [...]