The subject of my my very first single-book review on this blog, posted April 28, 2007 (prior to that, the review posts had been round-ups), has now been made into a movie. (Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously) intrigued me in the original hardcover, but since I only buy books in paperback I’ve been waiting to read it. It’s a lot of fun to read, more of a “memoir with food” than actual […]
In this Assignment, Karen has asked what lures us to watch what’s onscreen – the people we see there, or the ones behind the scenes. Weekend Assignment: #281: Who has a greater impact on your decision to go to a movie or watch a tv show, the actors you see on the screen, or the behind the scenes writers, producers and/or directors? Extra Credit: Who is your favorite actor? I’ve said it before, and here’s […]
Following up the “15 Books That Will Always Stick With You” meme (I posted mine in a TBIF/Booking Through Thursday response in June), it’s time to go to the movies! The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you’ve seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Both my husband and my sister tagged me for this on Facebook, but they […]
After several weekends in one theater or another, including the last two, I think there may be a break in our movie-going activity until later in June…so this might be a good time to catch up. I shared my thoughts on some of the movies I saw in May a couple of weeks ago – welcome to “Springtime Movies II: Electric Boogaloo”! (all poster images found on MoviePoster.com; review links are to EW.com) Angels & […]
Let’s all go to the lobby…follow the dancing popcorn! Since I already had a movie-review post this week, I thought it might be a good time to join in on the weekly Movie Meme hosted at The Bumbles Blog. It goes up there on Mondays, but as y’all know, I almost never do these things on their appointed day, so here it is on Wednesday. This week’s question: How do you watch movies? Do you […]
It’s movie-going season! It doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago that “summer movie season” started around Memorial Day weekend – the unofficial start of everything else summer – but now it kicks up near the beginning of May, which is barely halfway through spring! In any case, after a couple of months in a dry spell, it seems like we’ve been in one theater or another almost every weekend since late April. […]
The “which comes first – books or movies” post a couple of weeks ago kicked up some decent discussion, and that sent me back to the topic, looking at it from a slightly different angle this time. …As I mentioned in the original post, my stepchildren’s mother has a rule that the kids cannot see a movie based on a book unless they have read the book first, and it’s a rule that she wants […]
Bookworms Carnival #23, “Books to Movies,” is currently posted at The Bluestocking Society. In addition to links to posts about books into movies, movies into books, books about movies, etc., Jessica poses a question: Do you prefer to read the book first or see the movie first? My short answer: I’m not a stickler either way. There are some cases where I planned to see the movie version but wasn’t all that interested in the […]
Marley & Me Comedy/drama, 2008 I’m not a stickler for reading the book before I see the movie adaptation. In fact, I’d been shying away from reading John Grogan’s Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog. I’m not prejudiced against reading big best-sellers, but it seems to me that big best-selling books about animals frequently have a high cuteness/sappiness factor, and I am prejudiced against that, to be honest. However, I’ve […]
I found this quiz via Miguelina, and even though I don’t watch Mad Men, this “Mad Men-era female icon” quiz was hard to resist. It turns out that I am neither a Marilyn (Monroe) nor a Jackie (Kennedy), and that’s fine – I am an Ingrid (Bergman)! The personality characteristics associated with the profile sound quite a lot like me. I can live with that. And I’ll always have Paris. (So, could I at least […]
I’m all about the soundtrack. I’ve often wished my daily life had one. Maybe I can get some ideas for it from this week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Favorite Movie Songs.” For the purposes of this assignment, I’m sticking with songs that were written specifically for, or were heard for the first time in, a particular movie. A lot of recent movies have made use of existing music for their soundtracks, which is fine […]
Someday I’ll probably have to go back to writing my own responses to Ten on Tuesday, but not just yet. This week’s topic, “10 Favorite Villains From the Movies,” is another one tailor-made for my husband the movie maven, so here’s another guest post from Tall Paul. Interestingly, a couple of them also made an appearance in his earlier guest post naming “10 Favorite Movie Characters.” Is that support for the idea that the bad […]
