Don Jon

Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a guy who likes his routines. He goes to church and eats dinner with his family every Sunday, he works out, he goes dancing to pick up ladies, and he’s addicted to porn. He is caught up in the fantasy of the girls on the...

Amazing Race: Floaty Time

Teams stayed in Chile, but it is a long and skinny country so they still traveled quite a distance in a bus because the show likes to torture its contestants that way. There was also some bike riding, mining, shoe shining and boobs floating in the second episode, “Zip...

Amazing Race: One-Armed Rowing

Amy and I love Amazing Race. We have seen all the seasons, but started watching together a few years ago. Steve joined in on watching with us. This recap will be partly what happens in the episode, but mostly what we were saying while watching it. Let’s kick off...

LaBrava

LaBrava by Elmore Leonard This was my first Elmore Leonard book, even though I don’t know what took me so long since I really enjoyed Out of Sight, Karen Sisco, and Justified. I liked how those characters were really good at one or two things, but also had some...

Insidious: Chapter 2

  It picks up where the last movie left off with the family trying to get over what happened, but they are still connected to the spirit world. I found the first movie to be a decent scary movie. It did rip off a lot of the plot from...

In a World

A woman vocal coach tries to break into the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers that has only been a male profession. I never much thought about the voices in movie trailers. I knew there was one main guy. I also noticed that it was more varied in recent years,...

You’re Next

A family reunion turns into a home invasion of cute animal masks. Home invasion movies aren’t scary to me. Yes, I will jump from time to time, but it doesn’t stay with me like ghost stories or haunted house movies. I think why those scare me more is because...

The World’s End

Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, a 40-year-old Gary King rounds up his high school friends so they can go back to their hometown and finish the Golden Mile.  This would be the last part of comedy trilogy that started with the zombie satire Shaun of the Dead...

Building Stories

Building Stories by Chris Ware I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I picked up this graphic novel at the comic book store. It came in a huge box. It had 14 different pieces to it. They ranged from small books to newspapers to pamphlets....

Elysium

Director: Neill Blomkamp Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Wagner Moura In the year 2154, Earth  has been divided between the rich living in a space station utopia where any disease can be cured instantaneously and the rest of the poor population has been...