Category Archives: movies
Movie meme
Updated: Another quote for #6. Updated: All done. Clearly it was too easy. I give. It’s not like I’ve been posting anything else, and Hiromi, Karl, Syl, and DN have got me hooked on this movie quiz thingy. Fifteen movie quotes. Guess the movie the quote is from. Answer in the comments. First one with [...]
Mrs. Cora Foster’s house
Mrs. Cora Foster’s house, slow-mo demolition in progress. August 2006, right after salvaging some family heirlooms and giving up on gutting halfway through due to the structural unsoundness: October 2007, I drove by to see what it looked like. Of all the houses I’ve done, this was one of the special ones because of the [...]
Control
[Minor spoilers ahead for people who don't know anything at all about Joy Division.] The other night I got to see Control, the new biopic about Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis, who took his own life in 1980 at the age of 23, thus sealing his status as an eternal rock legend. I first learned [...]
The Origin of Species
Greg calls it “The Passion of the Christ”. You might as well subtitle it “So THAT’s why Ray turned out so fucked up”. Control debuts in the US October 10.
DVD coinkidinks
We’re finally back on Netflix after taking a break for a couple of years, and the first two movies out of the gate both have weirdness to them. Terminator 2: Has anybody ever noticed that the predicted Judgement Day when the world is destroyed by nuclear war is August 29, 1997? Fucken weird. You’re Gonna [...]
Order of the Phoenix
The best part of last night’s viewing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is that I had popcorn for dinner. The movie was an accurate representation of the book in that it was a long and tedious something that has to be slogged through to get to the more exciting stuff in [...]
Children of Men of New Orleans
While canvassing with Common Ground last month, I wandered briefly through Joseph A. Hardin Elementary in the Lower 9th Ward. It was a sad and lonely place, untouched since the storm. Then last week, while watching Children of Men for the second time, I was reminded of it when the protagonist and his cohorts are [...]
Money quote
Between the ACOE lawsuit traffic jam on Leake and the Brad Pitt traffic jam on Napoleon and the roving Presidential motorcade getting in the way Uptown, not to mention all the traffic lights that are still broken since the f-ing storm, this is a good day to not drive anywhere, and just stay home and [...]
I’d hit it
The pooch and I went for a walk this morning down to Samuel Square park and got to see Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett filming a scene for whatever that movie is that they’re filming here. It was fun seeing all the early 60′s cars driving up and down Loyola St. in the background, and [...]
Trailer Mashup: Hitchcock/Capra
Following in the footsteps of the romantic comedy Shining and the legendary zombie flick West Side Story comes a new Christmas classic, via Adrastos: Alfred Hitchcock’s It’s A Wonderful Life.
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