MWG: Summer School
I have picked the next movie for our Movie Watching Group (MWG) as Summer School from 1987. I loved this movie when it came out, recorded it off of cable, and watched the video copy of it very many times. It introduced me to high quality films, such as...
Top Chef: Restaurant Mess
Top Chef: Miami Restaurant Wars In the past seasons and past episodes, there has been many times where Tom has pointed out that it is not Top <insert clever phrase here>, but Top Chef. The restaurant wars challenge confuses me. While I know a chef that owns his/her own...
Click
Click Directed: Frank Coraci Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken Adam Sandler gets a hold of a universal remote that controls everything in his universe, but it starts going wacky and he can’t control it. I didn’t go out of my way to see this movie. I didn’t...
Top Chef: Fancy Late Night Treats
Top Chef: Miami Guilty Pleasures Ah the poor contestants thought they would actually get a night out to enjoy themselves, but none of them seemed to think it might be a trick? Why would cameras follow them around at a night club? Do they think they are that interesting?...
Top Chef: Individually Frozen
Top Chef: Miami Freezer Burn Reality shows love their sponsors, and Top Chef is no exception with their longing camera glances at the Glad plastic containers. This episode was apparently brought to us by Bertolli Mediterranean Style Frozen Dinners, since the product was mentioned a million times. It is...
Top Chef: No Greasy Tacos
Top Chef: Miami Latin Lunch What I find hilarious about this show is when someone states that they have all this experience for whatever they are going to do for one of the challenges, and then they bomb. This time, it was Hung living somewhere for three years so...
Top Chef: Three Tiny Bites
Top Chef: Miami Cooking by the Numbers Over the weekend, I watched the Top Chef marathon from the first season and was so glad while watching it that they got rid of the team concept since I liked seeing how the chefs worked on their dishes individually. Then in...
Brick
Detective story taking place in a high school and shot as a film noir. A girl is murdered and the main character is trying to find out who did it and why. The mystery wasn’t the main point of the story for me, since I really didn’t like what...
The Machinist
Christian Bale looks super freaky thin as a guy who hasn’t slept in over a year. Is he seeing things due to sleep deprivation? Or are people really after him? Please, please,, please please do not ever allow Christian Bale to lose 63 pounds for a movie role. He...
Transformers
I loved Transformers as a kid, so I was very suspicious of Michael Bay and his wacky live action movie idea from the get-go. However, after seeing some trailers and what not, we went to see it on the 4th of July. The story breaks from canon, but you...