This post includes some spoilers. It's been a long time since I nerdily reviewed a movie, but my husband and I went to see New Moon this weekend, and I just couldn't resist writing a post about it. The movie is a vampire love story. No, actually it's a vampire, werewolf, human love triangle. Bella [...]
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Footloose Haiku
A school carnival: swept in a wild, laughing throng we push through gym doors. Heads bent like flowers, a giggling daisy chain, girls walk with arms linked. "Hey, it's your birthday! I'll request a song for you! Do you like Footloose?" Like popcorn we bounce, squealing as one breaks away, rushing the DJ. Twenty five [...]
Ghostly Intervention
Promotional still of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past from IGN.com While I was away on my mini vacation a few weeks ago, I relaxed with some cheesy movie watching. Among the brainless, feel-good flicks I watched was Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which stars Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead, an alcoholic sex addict trying to turn his [...]
Unmanageability in Burn After Reading
I've been working on Step 1 and thinking about unmanageability in my own life and had one of those lovely moments of coincidence last weekend when my husband Mark and I went to see Burn After Reading, a funny, clever movie just drowning in unmanageable lives.WARNING: Spoilers from here on out!(See, I bet you wish [...]
Tropic Thunder
This weekend my husband and I went out to see the new comedy Tropic Thunder. There has been a good deal of controversy about this movie in disability rights circles, and many organizations, including the Special Olympics, have called for a boycott of the movie over its alleged inflammatory and derogatory use of the word [...]
Recovery Nerds on Dark Knight
My husband and I went out this weekend to catch Dark Knight, the latest Batman movie to hit the screens. In spite of the fact that it had, not only the typical suspend-your-disbelief fantasy movie moments, but also the oops-we-never-closed-that-loop sloppy production moments, the movie sucked me in and delivered on thrills like a good [...]
Confused Recovery Nerds on Hancock
Will Smith's Hancocktells us we deserve better. Mark and I went out to see Hancock last night. We were really looking forward to this one: July 4th weekend opening, Will Smith, superhero antics and alcoholism. It was slated to have everything! And the first half of the movie delivered on its blockbuster promises. Will Smith [...]
Recovery Nerds on The Incredible Hulk
Whew! Summer has its plusses and minuses. Among the plusses: Summer movie season. Among the minuses: Kids out of school means no time to blog about summer movie season. This past weekend, Mark and I left our kids in the care of our wonderful babysitter, who, next to The Junky's Wife is the love of [...]
Movie Nerd Weekend
I spent part of each day this weekend enjoying the dark coolness of a movie theater, and I'm feeling a little sick, as if I spent too much time eating candy. Um, and that was, in part, because I actually did spend too much time eating candy... On the docket this weekend were You Don't [...]
Literary Nerds on Prince Caspian
Last night, my husband and I went out to see Prince Caspian, the latest movie version of the Chronicles of Narnia. As the movie ended and the screechy wail of a song started over the closing credits, the audience began clapping, and I with them. I shook myself out of the spell that held me [...]
