A thread to introduce us to some new movie or theater suggestions I'm watching The Ladykillers by the Coen brothers [not for the first time Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!] A delightful delightful movie. Tom Hanks is marvelous as the 'evil' professor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edBUcE57kk
Most of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations, especially Much Ado About Nothing. Primary Colors was a fav of mine. Also Twelfth Night and Angels in America, the movie versions of those plays are both excellent. Also, a Brazilian movie Central Station (also called Central do Brasil). That is a must-watch, if you can handle subtitles. Some naughty people have 4 of these works uploaded on youtube.
Just watche the Bobby Darrin biopic with Kevin Spacey. It turns out I actually knew 1-2 songs of him. The movie stayed on the facts nicely. It is a bit like Chicago, lots of music and dance...
That was terrific! I don't like it when cartoons try to get by on just the entertainment value of the cartooning. In the opening scene they keep panning back and panning back, and eventually you realize that the garbage is piled higher than the skyscrapers in Manhattan. (For those of you who haven't read this in one of my other posts: the landfill on Staten Island is already the largest man-made construction on earth, 200ft high and about four square miles in area.) I appreciated the subtle way they let us figure out how long he'd been down there by himself. First we see the photos of the previous captains on the wall, a couple of dozen, and we figure wow, this ship has been up here for a few hundred years. That's a long time! But then they zoom in on one of them and the plaque under it says something like "Captain Blodger, 2679-2845," and suddenly we have to recalculate. I just saw "Where the Wild Things Are" a few days ago. I was not familiar with the story so I had no idea what to expect. Whoo-ee! That's supposed to be a children's story??? Pretty dark with an ambiguous ending. Very arty-farty, minimalist production. The only expense was the Muppet Monster costumes. Don't get me wrong, it was a good time, but no way would I take a kid to see it.
The last play I saw was in August at the Moonlight Amphitheater. I saw this play (CATS) for the first time, but my all-time stage production is, Grease! You're the one that I want! Ooo oo oo ooo! For a treat, watch this. It's the best part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIVy73AmWQ
That's a good one! Although terribly, terribly politically incorrect in today's climate. Wasn't that Nicholas Cage's first big one?
i didnt see anything politically incorrect about it. not that i remember becasue i wasnt actually watching the movie right then.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! no. he did a few movies and even some small parts before that.
I'm taking my step-mother to see Wicked in December for her Christmas present, she'll be totally floored. Though, I have to give her the tickets next week to ensure she doesn't make plans. The one major gay stereotype that I fit in to: I love musicals and plays. ~String
They kidnapped a baby, and it was a comedy! That's as politically incorrect in today's up-tight culture as the scene in "Where's Poppa?" when the gang members talked George Segal into raping a woman in Central Park as his rite of passage. "She" turned out to be a male undercover cop but Segal was so excited that he didn't notice. He was injured in the arrest... and the cop sent him flowers in the hospital.
Splinter on the ScyFy channel. One of the best horror movies ever, mainly because the people weren't stupid.
Only as a story line on South Park.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! You mean, if some evil, nameless creature is chasing them around inside a deserted house, they don't run upstairs?
