Review: Drive Angry

Have to say that I really haven't been enjoying Nic's movies lately.

I know he needs the money with all those nasty IRS letters coming in the mail but yknow.. I thought he was a METHOD actor and all.

At any rate.. I really, REALLY liked this one.

Think Desperado minus Selma Hayek plus can cheese and you get the idea.

Beside being BEYOND cheesy, it's raunchy in that 1970's soft porn kind of way.

You can't but love it because nobody acting in this movie is taking it seriously .. if they did, the movie would of sucked. But everybody involved knew what it was and played it over the top.

Oh.. and when they say Shot in 3D? The mean it.. EVERYTHING is practically in 3D.. it was a riot.

Ok .. so basically, the story is this:

Milton (Nicolas Cage) is a man on a mission to hunt down the fake prophet Jonah King (Billy Burke), the guy responsible for killing his daughter and  kidnapping his infant granddaughter with the intent of sacrificing her.

NOTE: you know you're getting old when Nicolas Cage plays a GRANDFATHER for pete's sake!!

Anyway .. along the way he picks up the hot chick Piper (Amanda Heard). But not only is Milton and Piper hunting down Jonah Hill, Milton is also being hunted down by some dude named The Accountant (William Fichtner),

Not for nothing, but The Accountant literally steals every single scene he is in. He needs his own movie.

Look, if you're looking for something deep and meaningful this isn't it. If you're looking to laugh your ass off.. well, you might. The movie has it's moments but it's not a comedy. But if you're just looking for something that you can just sit back and watch without having to utilize any brain cells, then that's what you have here.

If the situation fits, it's the perfect movie to take your 23 year old girlfriend to!!    ROFLMAO!!

Review: Gnomeo and Juliet

Loved It! Loved It! Loved It! LOVED IT!

I'm really not big on "family" movies.. in fact, you normally have to drag me kicking and screaming to see them but the only thing kicking and screaming with this movie was when it was over.

Think Shrek 1 done a hundred times better.

Everything was so spot on that I started to think they made this movie more for adults then for kids!! LoL! AND I got so into it that you'd swear I was like, five or something the way I was gasping and talking to the characters.

I think Tim moved a few seats down when I started doing that!

At any rate..

Don't let other family movies sway you from seeing this one. Elton John (yes, that one) is listed as executive producer so the soundtrack is literally all his music. I'm a fan so I so didn't mind.

James McAvoy (Mr. Tumus from Narnia) is the voice of Gnomeo and Emily Blunt voices Juliet. Jason Statham, Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan also voice characters but I'm not going to tell you who because I'll ruin it for you

Look.. there really isn't much more I can say except GO SEE IT!!!

Review: The Green Hornet

I'm not a comic book person .. not a super-hero person .. not a cartoon person ..

I don't do Superman .. don't to Batman.. don't do whatever other super-hero comes to life on the big screen.

Not my gig so when I tell you that I was NOT looking forward to seeing The Green Hornet then trust.

I was NOT looking forward to sitting through this movie and had all kids of diversions set up on my iPod Touch to make the 119 minutes bearable.

I was wrong.

Even though this IS your typical super hero movie, Seth Rogan as the under achieving son of a newspaper owner brings a whole other dimension to the other wise stoic Bruce Waynes and Clark Kents of the comic world.

Throw in Jay Chou as THE perfect Kato since Bruce Lee (Tim's opinion because he knows about this stuff more then I do) and you have a movie that was action packed and funny enough to keep even me entertained.

Believe me, that's saying something.

Cameron Diaz, in her role as Lenore the secretary, is also more of an asset then eye candy.

Good flick.. glad I watched.

Review: No Strings Attached

Even though I'm SO not a fan of Ashton Kutcher, I've loved Natalie Portman since The Professional so when the opportunity came to see this, I tucked my personal feelings for AK aside. Honestly, I wasn't expecting much. Just another screwball comedy filled with immature innuendos and gratuitous fluff.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

Definitely an adult movie where you can relate to each character because they're real. Real issues.. real problems.. real feelings.. real experiences. The comedy.. while sometimes over the top.. is truly funny and not written to dumb down the audience.

Yes, it's "boy meets girl" but with a twist.

Emma (Portman) and Adam (Kutcher) meet as children in summer camp. The movie opens with Adam upset that his famous father is divorcing his mother. Emma feeble attempt to console him speaks volumes to her inability to open her emotions.. even at a young age.

Over the years, the two keep running into each other until, in present day, both are in the same place at the same time. But time breeds experiences that breeds maladjustment.

Emma is walled off .. fiercely independent and used to calling the shots. Adam is the sensitive, touch-feely type guy who longs for his father to be anything but the over-aged man trying to restore his youth.

Their No String's Attached relationship begins one night when Adam finds himself hung over in Emma's apartment .. a scene that is completely hysterical.

She wants him without the relationship .. He wants her, basically any way he can get her so he's happy to go along with it until the inevitable happens and feelings start to bubble.

Everything about this movie is on point.. the acting (even by the supporting cast including Kevin Kline and Ludacris) ..  the script .. and the emotions and situations the writer's wanted to convey.

Tim even loved this movie even though he didn't want to. His impression was that Ashton Kutcher finally grew out of his "goofball" characters and represented something real.

I had to agree.

Two thumbs up for this and go ahead.. spring for the nacho chips and hot dog. You won't mind spending the money.

Review: The Resident

Ok..

I don't think I EVER used the word "creepy" so much in 91 minutes in my life.

I don't think I ever had chills running up my spine so much in 91 minutes.

AND ...

I don't think my chin was on my knees so much in 91 minutes.

How the HELL did I miss this movie??

Hilary Swank plays Juliette, an ER doctor who moves into an apartment building after she finds out the love of her life cheated on her.

Jeffery Dean Morgan :: who's all hot butter-scotchy :: portrays her landlord Max.

So here's Juliette with a job she loves... a too-awesome apartment that's too cheap for NYC.. and a hunky landlord with the weird grandfather.

Oh.. did I mention the weird grandfather?

Anyway.. what more could a girl want, right?

You know that saying about things being too good to be true usually aren't? Well, I'm going to guess that Juliette skipped that message because her Romeo :: come on, you knew that was coming! :: is this creepy guy who does creepy, creepy things.

Sooooo creepy that I told Tim that if I ever had to live in an apartment it would be ONE BIG ROOM with lights on 24/7..

And honestly, it's one of those creepy movies that is on point.. there wasn't one scene where I was like, ".. Oh! Come on! How the hell DIDN'T you notice that???? " It's well written.. well acted... and was exactly what it set out to be.

If you like creepy movies that stick with you.. you'll love this one.

So grab the DVD... pop a bag of microwave popcorn.. and grab a pillow or blanket to grip on to. THEN let me know what you think!

Review: Choose

ME: This looks like a good one..
TIM: What's it about..
ME: A girl finds her parents hog tied and is told she has 60 seconds to choose who gets killed.. her mother or her father. If she can't decide then he kills both.
TIM: I would choose neither. That's horrible!!!!
ME: ... and that's why it's a "horror" film? Duh?
TIM: Good point.

Ok..

That brief synopsis is only what occurs in the first five minutes of the movie...

Even BEFORE the credits!

Not sure how this one missed my radar.. and with Kevin Pollack and Bruce Dern you wouldn't think it would have gone straight to video.

It shouldn't have...

This is THE BEST psychological thiller / horror movie that I've seen in a long time .. better then "Case 39" and "My Soul To Take" .. maybe even combined.

Smartly written.. not cheesy... not unbelievable.

And that's probably the scariest thing about this movie.

This mad man (he isn't necessarily a "killer" because he doesn't actually kill his victims) gives his victims a choice.. I'm not going to give anything away so let's say he makes them choose between A or B .. Black or White.. Apples or Oranges ...

For each victim, either choice is devastating so it basically becomes the lesser of to evils..

And everything.. everything ties in.. no loose strings.. no questions left unanswered.. everything fits right down to the last second of the film..

If I tell you anymore it's going to feel like I'm giving something away and this movie is too good to go into it knowing "something".

So my  lips are sealed.. you'll have to watch it for yourself and let me know what you thought.

Review: The Fourth Kind

Whoa.

That's the first word that comes to mind after watching this movie.

And when I mean "Whoa" .. I mean WHHHOOOOAAAAAA.....

Let me just state up front and for the record that when it comes to UFO's and aliens and abductions and stuff .. I leave that to Tim. He watches all those documentaries on cable and spends hours looking at YouTube footage.

I let him entertain himself while I watch Project Runway or the Real Housewives and when he gets over-excited by something and JUST. HAS. TO. SHOW. ME .. I nod in the right places and give the right adjectives to appease him.

Ok. After watching this movie, I think I'm going to take him a little more seriously.

This is the true story of Dr. Abigail Tyler of Nome, Alaska.

Dr. Tyler and her husband, Will,  were both psychologists, raising their son and daughter in Nome and treating a variety of patient's that all appear to have a common thread... all were having their sleep disturbed in the middle of the night and all were experiencing an unusual sighting of an owl.

That's all I'm going to tell you because you MUST watch this movie.. and the reason being is that everything that happened in Dr. Tyler's life was already documented on her own video tapes of patients.. police video tapes.. police audio tapes.. and the movie uses this real footage spliced into the very movie itself.

Because of this, the majority of the script was already written.. the rest was filled in using actual journal accounts and reports.

I've never seen anything like this before... ever.. and when I tell you it had me on the edge of my seat and seeing the actual footage had my chin on my knees.. let me tell you, that NEVER happens.. especially a movie  about alien abduction.

Milla Jovovich plays Dr. Abigail Tyler and at the beginning of the movie, she addresses the audience as herself and says that what we're going to see is disturbing .. it is. No doubt about it. Disturbing with a capital D.

She also says that we need to draw our own conclusions..

What this movie and tell me what YOU thought about it.. I'm really curious.

Review: Season Of The Witch

There's only one type of character that Nicolas Cage does well.. the quirky-almost-anti-hero.

Think Valley Girl, National Treasure and even The Sorcerer's Apprentice for that matter.

There's really nothing new here.

Cage and Ron Perlman (remember him for the Beauty and the Beast tv show ages ago?) play a pair of Templar Knights who kind of figure out that the wars they are fighting are not necessarily for God.. but for their commander who doesn't give a hoot what God says.

So they beat feet and high tail back to where ever it is they high tail it back to.

What they don't realize is that England has been hit with the Black Plague and the king of whatever village they were in tells them that he has this witch down in the dungeon and if they would just take her to the Abbey, the monks there have the VERY. LAST. SORCERER'S. BOOK that would break the plague spell and kill the witch.

So that's the story and you already know that since this is a Nicolas Cage movie, all kinds of mayhem will ensue and getting to the Abbey doesn't mean that anything is going to go down the way the King says it will and the movie will end the way almost all of Nicolas Cage's movies will end.

There really isn't any surprises here. At all.

Was it a good movie? It was ok .. it's been done better.. it's been done worse. I happen to love all things set in the medieval age so I may be slightly biased.. and, you know, it's not like Nic Cage was wrongly cast. But it has the feeling of ".. wow! I owe the IRS a loooooooooooot of money so let me spend a few weeks making some bank" 


I wouldn't spend the money to go see this during prime hours.. in fact, it's kind of a perfect movie to use those almost expired gift tickets you got back on your birthday when there really isn't anything you really really want to see (!!) ... or wait for it on cable.

Review: Devil

M. Night Shyamalan is back!

After the mega success of The Sixth Sense, his movies seemed to slowly roll down the hill.

I mean, Unbreakable was a movie I had to watch a few times in order to appreciate it .. Signs go really.. really hokey at the end with the whole alien finger under the door stuff .. I thought The Village showed some an upswing but then by the time The Lady In The Water and The Happening came out I no longer got excited anymore by his films.

I only watched Devil because 1) I was bored and 2) My cousin Charlie raved about it on a Facebook post.

Yea.. I'm just soooo discriminating, huh? LOL!

Anyway.. I'm glad I was bored and that Charlie raved about it because this movie.. THIS movie is CLASSIC Shyamalan!

The premise seems simple. Five people get stuck in an elevator. But it never is simple.. and OMG!! I so want to get into the plot and everything but I SOOOO don't want to ruin it for anybody.

Ok.. so there's the Detective, who's 90 days sober after coming to terms with the hit and run death of his wife and son. He gets a call about a suicide and while he's checking that out, receives another call about the people stuck in the elevator, one of whom seems to have been assaulted.

And it all goes from there..

And like classic Shyamalan, you have no clue what your going to get banged with in the last 10 minutes.

The movie is only 80 minutes or so.. not very long.. but it will keep you on the edge of your seat.

My only regret is that I ran out of Gummi Bears five minutes into the movie.

Watch this. I guarantee you'll be talking about it every chance you get to every one you see!

Review: Tomorrow When The War Began

Are you old enough to remember 1984's Red Dawn? The movie that had teenage girls drooling over Patrick Swayze and C Thomas Howell as mid western teens who band together with the friends to fight off the Russians who invade their town?

Fast forward 20 some odd years and you have Tomorrow When The War Began.

Tim's been after me to watch this movie but you know, I'm well past the age of drooling over young studs (*cough*) banding together when their town gets rolled over by a foreign army.

OR so I thought.

With nothing else better on the horizon, I conceded.

And I'm glad I did.

After spending the weekend in the bush, seven friends return home to find the families gone and their town and farms deserted. They quickly find out that a foreign army (not named but Asian by the actor portrayal) have invaded their place in Australia.

So what do they do? Do they hide? Do they become martyrs? What CAN they do?

Well, of course they do something. It wouldn't be a movie otherwise.. but what was intriguing was how morality played with their minds and hearts.

I'm not going to get into specific plot scenes for a reason. Researching the movie, I found out that the story came from the first of a seven book series written by John Marsden. I had thought that the movie ended rather abruptly but realized that the end left the window open for sequels.

Although I thought that some scenes were unbelievable, the story centers more on how these kids had to cope with losing their families, stepping out into a war and relying on their instincts to carry them through.

It was a good movie.. so good that I'm going to order the series to find out what happened. Definitely 2 thumbs up.

Review: Black Swan

Three words:

WATCH

THIS

MOVIE

Omg.. Omg.. Omg.. O. M. F. G.!!

I watch A LOT of movies.. and this has got to be the best one I've seen in a long.. long.. LONG.. time.

Adjectives don't justify.

Really. It's that phenomenal.

I'll write a full review soon .. right now, I'm so over whelmed I'm going to download the score from Swan Lake on my iPod and dance around in tights.

Review: Letters To God

There's been a lot written about having the faith of a child. People who've studied the Bible WAY more then I have can spend hours debating and analyzing the words of Jesus.

But to me, that's the whole point.

Children don't over analyze. Don't search for hidden meanings. Things are what they are..

I've been wanting to see this movie for a long time and finally had the opportunity to last night.

Tanner Maguire plays Tyler, a kid with brain cancer. A kid with brain cancer that lost his dad to a tragic accident.

He writes letters to God daily and pops them in the mailbox to be delivered. But where do they go?

The temporary mailman, Brady (played by Jeffery Johnson.. who looks so much like Greg Kinnear that I didn't realize it wasn't him until the end of the movie) wonders the same thing.

Brady lost his wife.. his kid.. his life to alcohol and a DUI and has only kept his job because his boss has a soft spot for him.

He doesn't know what to do with the letters and figures he'll take them to the local church and leave them for the Pastor to deal with. Only the Pastor has other ideas. He tells Brady that the letters were put in his hands for a reason and he has to let God speak to him to find out what should be done with them.

Make no  mistake that this movie is about the greatness of God.. how He does not give us more then we can handle.. how faith can lead us to the wonder's of God's grace.

The movie also stars Robyn Lively as Tyler's mother Maddie.. soap queen Maree Cheatham as Tyler's grandmother and Ralph Waite (good night, John Boy!) as the gumpy neighbor who is anything but when explaining to Tyler why kids in school make fun of him.

This isn't a movie for everyone.. but it is a movie for those who enjoy celebrating God or who need to find the party.

Review: The Last Seven

You know... there's something about productions coming out of England. They're just.. I don't know how to explain it.. a step up?

Dunno.. maybe it's just the accents.

At any rate..

If you like WFT??? movies.. this is the one for you.

If you like movies that keep you on your toes and where you have to pay attention to everything on the screen (anyone remember Memento?) then this is DEFINITELY the movie for you.

You can kind of figure out by the title and tagline that this is a movie where one day, there's only 7 people left in London.

But why?

That's what's going to have you asking until the very end of the film.

Until then, you'll watch 7 people with onset amnesia trying to figure out what the hell happened and what the hell all those puzzle pieces of memory that snap in and out of their head is all about.

Gradually, the pieces start coming together and depending on how daft you are (how's that for being non-insulting??) will depend on when you figure it out.

It'll be fun if you commented on who you think this dude is on the right..

He's one of those silly things that me and Tim argue about.

So yea.. I didn't think I'd be as into this movie as I was since I wasn't familiar with any of the cast but I'm glad I gave it a chance.

Highly recommended.

Review: Life As We Know It

Ok.. guys?

If you think this is just your routine chick flick, then I think you ought to know that even the Man's Man that is Tim loved it. And believe me, he would rather gouge his eyeballs out with a dull spoon then watch a chick flick.

It really is that good.

Predictable.. yes. You know from the first frame of the film that Katherine Heigl (her generation's Meg Ryan) and Josh Duhamel (ANY  generation's poster boy for O.M.f.G!) are going to be together by the last frame.

It's the getting there that is hysterical.

Heigl's Molly is one of those bougie organic eatery owners who has a list for everything including her perfect man. She's uptight enough to make you roll your eyes but not so uptight that she's irritating.

Duhamel's Messer is a typical guy's guy with the dream job.. working in the camera booth for the local NBA team. He's everything she's not.. which makes them so perfect together. A fact not missed by their best friends, the parents of a toddler, who bequeath the baby to Holly and Messer in their will.

Of course, the parents die and the hilarity begins.

You have the obligatory changing the dirty diaper scenes.. and can't get the baby to stop crying scenes .. and the realization that life as they knew it had changed scenes.. but they're smartly written and well acted and just different from what's been done before.

I have to say though.. that as much as I could just stare and drool at Josh Duhamel, the scene stealer is Sarah Burns as the social worker. She only has three or four scenes but each one kept getting funnier and funnier.

Josh Lucas ( of Poseidon, Sweet Home Alabama and quivering thighs with heart flutters)also takes a spin playing Holly's almost love interest.

You won't be disappointed. Definitely two thumbs up and worth springing for the popcorn, nachos and big box of raisenettes!

Review: Haunted

As much as I am obsessed with movies, sometimes not all of them hit my radar.

Case in point? 1995's Haunted.

Just how a movie starring Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale and Anthony Andrews skirted by me is as much a mystery as this movie is.

Quinn plays David Ash, who's twin sister Juliette accidentally downs as a child growing up in the English country side. His American mother moves him to the States where he grows to become a professor of psychology and spends his time writing books disproving the paranormal and busts fake psychics at seances.

He returns to England to teach at University and keeps receiving requests from an old woman, Mrs. Webb, who insists that she is living with ghosts and implores him to help her. Initially he resists, until his assistant informs him that the woman lives in Edbrook. For some reason, this piques his interest and he travels back to the English country side to convince the old woman that what she thinks are ghosts can be dispelled.

Or is it?

Upon arrival, Ash meets the adult children of the estate Christina (Beckinsale), Robert (Andrews) and Simon (Alex Lowe) who are.. um.. well.. let's just say the word "inappropriate" is an understatement! They're weird.. they think that Mrs. Webb (once their nanny is weird) and poor Professor Ash has everything he knows to be true turned upside down.

Sir John Gielgud also makes an appearance as the formidable Dr. Doyle.

This isn't your typical haunted house movie and there were moments in the film where I actually jumped out of my skin and chocked on my microwave popcorn!

So if you come across this in the 5.99 bin at WalMart, make the investment. It really is a great movie.

Review: Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew Season 4

Dr. Drew certainly does get around, huh? Between LoveLine, Teen Mom, Celebrity Rehab .. I think it's safe to say that where ever the celebrity, the infamous and the dysfunction meet, Dr. Drew is right there next to the "equal" sign.

That is, if VH1 is anywhere near the vicinity. They've seem to corner the market on craziness.

At any rate, I  like Dr. Drew. I like his facial expressions and his calm eye rolls and he really does seem to have sincere motivations in helping these twits .. even though the majority of them see this as a way to put some much needed dough in their pockets.

Seriously.. look at the last three seasons and you won't find a Lindsay Lohan among them..

Since I don't drink or do drugs.. I really believe my addiction is watching people who do. It fascinates me and I think this is the first season where I was familiar with the whole cast. Well, except for one. But we'll get to that later.

Expect the same dramas.. the same break thrus.. the same dysfunctions.. the same tantrums... because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it doesn't matter if one is a celebrity or not. A junkie is a junkie is a junkie.

Eric Roberts

Before he was "Julia's brother" and "Emma's father", Eric was quite the actor himself. In fact, I think I remember drooling over him waaaay back in the 80's when King of the Gypsy was release.

Back in then, coke ran rampant and as the story goes, he was more then happy to sit on a pile of it. Now, according to him, his only vice is pot that he "vaporizes". Who knew.

The one thing that is getting on my nerves already is his over use of the word "baby". Sorry, Eric, the whole lounge lizard thing went out with the big piles of coke.

Frankie Lons

Um.

Who?

Her bio says that she's "..Keisha Cole's biological mother".

Um.. ok.

And.. um.. excuse me for being ignorant but who is Keisha Coles? I may not know who she is because I only listen to country and alternative music but even Jason Davis asked the same question so I don't feel so bad.

Janice Dickenson

I LOVE Janice!!

The self described "First Super Model" and the epitome of a "hot mess" .. I just love her. Maybe it's because I read her autobiography years ago so I know a little bit of the history that made her what she became but I really think that she is one of the few that really does want to beat her demons.

I doubt that the "clean" Janice will be anywhere near as entertaining but she deserves to have some peace in her life.

Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis

Jason is what happens when excess is used in place of love. He was raised by his billionaire grandfather who died when Jason was 15, leaving Jason alone, lost, unloved and self medicating with drugs. He lives behind his walls and it's soo obvious that he pushes people away before they can get close. He's truly socially inept and it's sad.

At 25 (I think), he's a shell of a person. Doesn't take care of his health.. doesn't take care of his hygiene. He just doesn't give a crap and at the onset of this season, he just seems like he's going through the motions waiting to die. Interestingly, he was on an episode of Millionaire Matchmaker last season and the change between then and now is sad.

Ironically, he's one that I'm rooting for.

Jason Wahler

I think Jason Wahler was one of those 11th hour addicts signed on because they needed one more person for the show.

I mean, really. He's one of those people who are famous for being famous. Or change that to infamous. He's known for three things 1) Filming Laguna Beach and The Hills 2) Dating Lauren Conrad 3) Getting a DUIs like.. every other night.

His drug of choice is alcohol and even though is so obvious that he's an alcoholic that needs help, I'm not sure he has the big personality needed to be on this show. How's that for sick, right?

Jeremy London

Poor Jeremy. No matter how hard he tries.. or how much he believes it himself.. the fact that he was kidnapped and forced to smoke crack at gunpoint is just.. well.. come on.. a little hard to believe.

I know you remember that story, right? Maybe it did happen... I don't know. But Jeremy and his baby's momma (who is also being treated at the same facility but off camera) have issues. BIG issues. Hopefully they both get their shit together.

Leif Garrett

Like Janice.. I really, really, REALLY hope that Leif is finally able to get the help that he needs. From my guesti-mation, he's been an addict for what? Thirty years? Hard core stuff.. not just vaporizing pot.

Along with the whole child-star target on his back, he carries around the guilt of paralyzing his best friend and as we all learned by following Mike Starr from Alice in Chains last season, that bag of guilt is no joke.

I've seen plenty of documentaries and interview with Leif and honestly, I do hope he gets clean. But deep down I think he's on the show just for the paycheck.. and that's really sad.

Rachel Uchitel

Even though I think that Rachel Uchitel isn't talking about this on camera.. doesn't want it mentioned on camera.. she's the chick that did Tiger Woods when he was married and started that whole ball rolling.

Ok.. I get that you don't want to be "known" for that but come on.. do you think no one remembers?

Anyway.. she's pretty messed up mentally. Her father OD'd when she was young and her fiance was killed in the 9/11 attacks so she has major abandonment issues. That's no joke and even though she thinks she doesn't have "street cred" because she's not a hard core junkie like some of the others, she's got issues that are screwing up her life in the same way.

So there you have the cast of Season 4. Should be interesting. They seem to be MORE of everything.. more addicted.. more troubled.. more diva-ish.. more resistant.

Dr. Drew has his work cut out for him.

Review: Tangled

Ok..

First of all, let me just say that I'm not into "kid" stuff .. Never watched cartoons as a kid.. or a teen.. or an adult for that matter and since I've never had kids of my own I didn't have to deal with Barney or the Wiggles or the whatevers.

I count my blessings every night.

But back in July, we took Josh to see Despicable Me and while we waited for the movie to start, they showed a trailer for Disney's Tangled.

And I absolutely adored it and committed myself by telling Tim that I wanted to see it when it came out. His blue eyes lit up like candles where behind them because anytime he can get me to watch anything "family", he thinks he scored big.

Except for Space Chimps or Moon Monkeys or whatever that stupid movie was called. That one is completely off limits.

Anyway.. back to Tangled.

I had the opportunity to watch it tonight and let me tell you.. I LOVED.. LOVED.. LOVED IT!!

If you can't already guess, it's a tweeked version of Rapunzel .. the chick stuck in a tower with miles and miles of hair.

But it's smart .. it's better then "well written" .. the CGI is so amazing that you sometimes forget that you're not watching real people .. well.. until the animals talk and sing .. but you know what I mean. It's just clever and you never get the sense that you're watching a kids' movie.

Definitely one where I'd recommend going to the movies.. buying the big bucket of popcorn AND spring for the cheesy nachos. I guarantee you'll love it!

Good Eats: Cheddar Bagel Twist

It's 3:15am and I'm starving...

That's what happens when you can play Black Ops for four hours straight because everybody else in the house is asleep and you can't watch the Skating With The Stars show you DVR'd because certain people can't sleep with the tv on..

Sorry.. I'm over-tired.

Anyway...

So I'm starving and even though the house is loaded.. and I mean LOADED with stuff to eat nothing is cutting it.

I know what I want and the only place I'm going to find it is five blocks away.

Did you ever have a Dunkin' Donuts Cheddar Bagel Twist? OMG!! Think soft chewy bagel all twisted up around melted cheddar cheese. And not that funky cheese that they put on their sandwiches. Or maybe it is.. it just takes a whole hell of a lot better when it's melted and bubbly and there's little crunchy edges.

And they're HUGE!! Like the size of two bagels. Not great for the hips but using your thumbs burns us A LOT of calories!

Hey! Just feed into my delusion, ok??

There are other flavors like cinnamon raisin, chocolate chip, tomato basil .. but the don't tickle my fancy.

At any rate.. next time you swing by, do yourself a favor and grab one. You'll wonder how you lived with out them!

Web Watch: Swayable.Com

Have you ever been undecided about something? Or can't decide between this or that?

Duh! Stupid question!!

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Review: Apocalypse, Pa

A few things you should know before reading this review:

We are in the process of making a move to the mountains of upstate Pennsylvania

As long as I've known Tim, he's desired nothing more then to become self-sustaining. Believe me, this man could survive on just twigs, berries and a bow.

So he was nothing short of bursting out with corn grain when he happened to come across this show on the History Channel.

No Frank, you are NOT crazy!

If men can become BFF's then I'm sure Tim and Frank Belcastro, the show's focus would be it.

Belcastro and his family (wife, daughter and son) live in rural Pennsylvania. I know where they live and it's not as "Pennsyl-tucky" as it's portrayed but still not like your in the middle of Philadelphia.. if you know what I'm saying.

At any rate, Frank wants to be self-sustaining. Get back to living like Americans lived back in the day.
He says he wants to be prepared .. and believe me, Frank.. I know the feeling.

In the episodes that aired tonight, him and his boy converted an old truck from running on gasoline to wood chips or manure because what if there was a time when there was no gasoline. Believe me, we've had those conversations.

What was really funny was when he sent his wife and daughter to buy goats.. initially for the milk but as he said to his son, "... there are other uses for goats" and states that he hopes his daughter isn't getting too attached to them. Meanwhile, she's taking the baby goat to the feed store to have it's picture taken with the Easter Bunny! Again, me and Tim have had those conversations before.

I liked the show.. I liked where Frank was coming from even though in interviews he appears to stay level on the actual reasons for his belief. Maybe this is just something he's always wanted to do.. or maybe he sees what we see and knows that there will be a time very soon where you either survive or you don't.

At any rate.. if for nothing else, you'll be entertained by his quirkiness.. his wife's reactions to his ideas and to the things he builds.

If you're of like mind.. you'll be taking away much, much more.

New episodes, I believe, will be airing after Thanksgiving but the History Channel hasn't decided if they're going to pick it up as a series yet.

I hope they do.