The
Alien franchise crossing over with the Yautja brought a great deal more than
the individual creatures and battles.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Beach Boys Christmas
On
December first my sister and I gave our Mother her Christmas present, the Beach
Boys Reason for the Season Christmas concert in Morristown at MPAC. My daughter and two nieces came too.
Basically it was a girls' night out, plus me.
The younger kids probably knew the Beach Boys from watching Full House, which is likely the only
nice thing I’ve said about that series in my life.
Monday, December 24, 2018
2018 Holiday Parade Festivities
GooooooOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOoOOOood
Afternoon! It’s Anabelle here, back again at the Traditional Christmas Village.
It seems like this year, we got some new residents. Although I’m not going to
go off on that tangent right now. Anyway, it is that time of year again: the
time for the “I Wish I Was In Jeff’s Village” Action Figure and Hess Truck
Extravaganza!
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Christmas Village 2018
A
Writing American Hero
Or
Here
Comes Stan Lee Claus
I
originally didn’t want to involve superheroes two years in a row for the annual
Christmas carnage atop the frozen Norwegian wastes of Sluttbordet Plateau. However, with the passing of Stan Lee, this
is unquestionably the year a Marvel tribute is needed.
Cobra
forces once again are perched atop the plateau.
“Weren’t they defeated by the Justice League?” I hear an outburst or
readers cry.
Would you believe, a couple of readers?
Would you believe, it’s just one? (Hi, Mom!)
Yes,
Cobra was defeated, but in the Mighty Marvel Manner, the Watcher asks:
“What
if Marvel heroes and villains co-created by Stan Lee
joined in the annual snow covered battle?”
Monday, December 17, 2018
Christmas Calculation!
Looks like a get an early Christmas present this year. A day off!
For extra credit, my daughter's math class was tasked with writing a math based Christmas carol.
Most others wrote or typed out something short and basic, to a simple song.
She made a giant, multicolored page with images, and parodied a Rankin Bass storytelling number.
I have no idea where she gets it from.
Come back next time for the usual Action Figure based holiday fun.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Monday, December 10, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Monday, December 3, 2018
Predator Post
And
I think one of the big reasons that the sequels failed to live up to the
expectations of the first for many that are not me, is that folks are a bit
confused about what “that sort of thing” is.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Universal Monsters Through a Kid’s Eyes
I
should probably take Grandma’s advice and change this to “My Kid’s Eyes” as she
gets older, but there’s no way I'm going back and relabeling all the old posts,
I’m behind as it is.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness: Coda
We’ve had impact lists,
previously mentioned impact lists, Eighties lists, and two groups of weird
non-human lists. For the musical finale,
repeats are allowed, since I made so many rules last week, I’ve limited the
selection pool. However, these are much
more rankable than merely using chronological order.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
It’s a Rube Goldberg Christmas
Caught
two kid’s Christmas movies this week. Oddly both had complex, multi stage
mechanisms in them to perform simple tasks.
The reasons were somewhat different, however.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Monday, November 12, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness Part 6
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Guardian Born, Devil Again
Monday, November 5, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness Part 5
While I was racking my
brain for weeks to whittle down my original list, (And my other list, and my
other other list) Jeff challenged me again with a fellow Facebook film fan Chris's more difficult “10
DAY MOVIE CHALLENGE.”
The rules are: you have
to post an image of a NONHUMAN NONBLOCKBUSTER movie character that affected you in some way. Even if it was in the background or had only 5 seconds of screen
time. Doesn't matter. ***NO JAWS, STAR WARS, ALIEN, THING, ETC. IT'S A CHALLENGE***
Thursday, November 1, 2018
So Far, His Youth is Pretty Darn Good
The
whole Disney Trip Clan of my immediate family drove out to Port Washington, New
York to see my Nth Cousin Xce Removed Bobby Conte Thornton in his oneish man
show: Blame it on My Youth, at Eight PM on Friday October 19.
Because he had a
special guest in something he normally does alone (with a four piece backup band) I called it a “oneish” man show.
Because we were
worried about making it through start of weekend traffic from New Jersey to
Long Island, we left…
Tuesday.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness Part 4
There is another whole
group of ten movies that are portions of my soul that didn’t meet the original requirements, or last week’s.
They say the first few
years of life are key for imprinting on a language. My theory is that the teen
years are key for imprinting on movie quotes.
This is a series of films from the 1980’s with varying degrees of
mystical or fantastic elements that in most cases I don’t remember the first
time I saw them. However, as years have passed they’ve wormed into my brain to
a level that most weeks will not pass without me quoting many of them.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
We Are Pleased
Usually,
I can easily spew forth all kinds of observations about movies, and then I’ll
agonize trying to come up with a fun title.
I’ve
had this title and a blank page for over a week, and I’m not sure why. Its late enough that some spoilers probably snuck in.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness Part 3
Welcome back to me
obsessing about how many movies have driven my personality.
(Part 1 and explanation,
and Part 2 of main list)
Here’s a whole other top
ten list of movies disqualified based on my already describing the effects of
the first time I saw them in previous posts. Clicking on the titles will take you to those posts.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Bayonned Beyond Belief
No, there are no reviews again this week. (Though I will say that Jodie Whittaker is KiILLING IT!!! Love the authoritative flourish she wields the Sonic with.) Instead is a special - off schedule- George Award for myself due to shattering a previous record.
This post contains
bad, foul, filthy and unacceptable language - the words that “will curve your
spine, grow hair on your hands and maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace
without honor.”
This is not a post
for children. Kids, take a hike.
This is also not a
post for those adults who are offended by this type of language. Do yourself a favor, and go read some of my
cute stuff before moral outrage can kick in.
Just about everything
else on this blog is clean…Stupid sometimes, but clean.
End of Warning.
Monday, October 15, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Mr. Bemis’s Happy Ending
Venom came out, but with a sinus
infection, band performance and a homecoming dance we didn't have time to see
it.
I
know…priorities.
And
there’s a new Doctor. She’s British, she’s fun, she's commanding, and she’s mad, I"m still sure she'll be fine. But, since we’re
starting at the beginning to step by step new viewers in again, I’d really like
to see another outing or two where she’s settled in before posting all my thoughts.
I
have been watching the Twilight Zone however…
Monday, October 8, 2018
Facebook Film Foolishness Part 1
The rules were: Post an image, no explanation (which could have killed
me), from 10 movies (and only ten which also could have killed me) that had an
impact on me.
Because I love films far more than I hate chain letter type things, I
actually did this one, but nominated anyone who wanted to do this and hadn’t
been challenged yet instead of putting someone on the spot.
Because after a month of trying to reduce the list it remained in the
high twenties, I had to invent my own extra rules.
Here, then, are ten films that had an impact on me…
And I can vividly remember the effect of the first time I saw them…
And I haven’t blogged about that experience already…
And I could miss the beginning on the first viewing but not the end…
And they went on to become “part of me.”
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Monday, October 1, 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
The Predator, and "The Predator"
There’s
a new Predator film out.
Finally!
See
down below for a spoiler free review.
More
importantly, this serves as an introduction to a long delayed tour of the whole
franchise.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Monday, September 3, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Monday, August 27, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Delayed Disney Deconstruction Descriptions
Given its concept and
cast, my daughter and I both had Christopher
Robin on our radar since it was announced.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Atlantic City Summer 2017: Day 2- Almost Nomads
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
Thursday, August 9, 2018
War for the Planet of the Apes through a Kid’s Eyes
Once again, a review for
a franchise that insists on only releasing films when I’m vacationing off the
continent is delayed. The delay extended
because my daughter, who laughed at Carpenter’s The Thing and the original Poltergeist
didn’t want to watch “the scary
monkeys.”
Unpredictability- the
never ending gift of parenthood.
Monday, August 6, 2018
Atlantic City Summer 2017 The Almost Tradition
With our family in desperate need of
new summer traditions following the epic level unpleasantness of the loss of Up
the Lake, a week of beach days down Atlantic City way seemed a prime contender.
We made it two years in a row before
things started to wobble.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
A Fold In Time
I guess I’ve gotten
behind in my viewing, with this being the first of three increasingly late film
reviews. Blame the flood of superheroes
and dinosaurs (Woo!) in cinema.
Monday, July 30, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Astonishing and Wondrous
Monday, July 16, 2018
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