Archive for April 2017
KonMari, one year later. Here's what I've learned.
Last year around this time, I picked up the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. I wrote about my experiences over by here. It’s one year later, and I’m still living the KonMari life…to some extent. I still haven’t sorted through my photographs (the last stage of tidying), but I’m working... Read more »
Summer Movie Forecast 2017
Though I’ve done this post every year for the last 7 years, this may be the first year where the concept of a summer movie no longer means what it once did. When Beauty and the Beast opens to $175M in March and then goes on to make $500M, or when The Fate of the... Read more »
13 reasons why I didn't love 13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why is a Netflix series you’ve probably heard of based on a book of the same name you probably haven’t read. (I haven’t.) It’s about a junior in high school who dies by suicide and leaves behind a set of cassette tapes (in the year of our Lord 2017) upon which she calls out... Read more »
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"Fate" sputters to the middle of the Furious pack
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS Genre: Action Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 136 mins. Premise: Dom (Vin Diesel) is forced to turn against his crew by a malevolent hacker named Cipher (Charlize Theron). Can Dom’s crew stop Cipher’s plans for world domination before Dom turns his back on family for good? Behind-the-Scenes: After James Wan declined to return, F. Gary Gray took over directing duties,... Read more »
Don't hurt me. I'm not a doctor.
I am a terrible follower of things that get the internet excited. By “terrible” I mean, I’m always late to the party or don’t attend at all. But I did see the video of the United passenger being “escorted” off the plane the other day, and it affected me. I could’ve been him. I could’ve... Read more »
The best thing to come out of Gifted is Chris Evans and Jenny Slate's brief relationship
GIFTED Genre: Dramedy Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 101 mins. Premise: Mary, a gifted 7 year-old who excels at math, finds herself in the middle of a bitter custody dispute between her uncle/caretaker (Chris Evans) and her absentee grandmother (Lindsay Duncan) over her upbringing and education. Behind-the-Scenes: Taking a break from the big-budget demands of his two Amazing Spider-Man films, director... Read more »
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My daughter went to a daddy-daughter dance and now she's ruined forever
I’ve been to at least one daddy-daughter dance. (Maybe more than that, because I think my high school kept doing them for another year, but I don’t remember. Sorry, Dad. I’m sure we had a great time.) I only remember the first one. I was a freshman in high school at an all-girls’ school. My... Read more »
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