Category: play

This was a sweet movie, but not the overly done kind of sweet that leaves a sticky film in your mouth that you want to cleanse with beer or coffee. It was a good sweet. It was also pretty hilarious. It’s about a Seattle writer for an indie magazine who piles into his Escalade with two interns for a trip to a resort town where he’s charged with seeing if there’s an angle to a classified advertisement recruiting for someone to participate in time travel.

I had two thoughts as I walked out of this film. One, there seems to be a trend towards female heroes in teen lit, so does that mean there mostly female teen readers? Two, does it seem like the writers of these teen movies like to use the threat of suicide to get their characters out of last minute tricky situations? Actually, there was a third thought: I liked this better than Hunger Games.

Who doesn’t like hit man with a heart movies? What kind of cold heart do you have to have not to? I’ve seen two (3 Days to Kill) in the last few weeks because the genre works for me. Gail and I put this on one night because we are Cusack fans. He did hit man with a heart in one of my favorite movies of all time, Grosse Pointe Blank. Although this one was certainly not as good, or as funny, or as well soundtracked, it was pretty decent. Good intrigue and they didn’t dumb it down by making the CIA boss the mastermind. Enough said.

Gail and I are done with all three (so-called) seasons of Sherlock. Each season is not really a season in the American network TV sense; each one is actually a trilogy, made up of three 88 minute episodes. They never deviated from this formula in the slightest. It was effectively like watching nine full-length movies over the last few months. We even made some microwaveable Boy Scout kettle corn once to simulate the movie-going experience (thanks nephew Paul). Awesome.

This thing got considerably better in season two. I liked season one, but didn’t really get all of the hype. These next three episodes were worthy of some serious hype though. They had more interesting characters, better plots, and some huge climax scenes.

I was pleasantly surprised with this stylish thriller. Not great, but good. It was directed by this dude called McG and written by Luc Besson (he did The Professional), so it had a lot going for it even before you toss in the star power of Kevin Costner and Hailee Steinfeld (from True Grit).

This is a PBS documentary about the 2012 harvest in Napa Valley. I like food shows. I like food events. I like making food stuff part of my vacation experience. I’m even starting to cook, if you count smoothies and soft-boiled eggs as cooking. My relationship with food, I think, is a healthy one. I think.

This is complicated stuff, but you may not need to grasp every nook and cranny of the show to enjoy it. It goes so fast and hops around so much that it may require review or re-watching to really appreciate it. Gail and I didn’t go there, we just lapped it up, and it was pretty decent.