True love

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Amy

To prove that Kyle and I are crazy, let me tell you the story of Wednesday night.
A community “Movies in the Park” event was showing Princess Bride, one of Kyle’s very favorite movies. Aha, we shall go to this, we say. Wait, Owen goes to bed at sundown, we lament. Well, we will take him in the [...]

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To Film or Not to Film

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Amy

I’m dabbling in a movie love affair. I say dabbling because I’m only, like, flirting with film. Watching the There Will Be Bloods and the No Countries for Old Men, the Little Miss Sunshines; waiting to relax and sip a drink with the Junos and Atonements; catching up on the Magnolias and Requiems for a [...]

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Scripted

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Amy

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.3. Post them here for everyone to guess.4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search/other search functions/looking at my profile or whatever to see what my favorite [...]

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Never fear

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Amy

I love a good dystopia: Big Brother, barren women, bald Natalie Portmans and Brave New Worlds. Social restrictions stifle, and I quiver on the couch while clutching my Mexican blanket, fearful of doom and all its inevitabilities. My husband sits beside me, cheerfully eating Blue Bell ice cream.
“Don’t you KNOW that the world is going [...]

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