Tv shows currently on the air (that phrase makes so much more sense nowadays) that my wife and I have watched together from the start, include Vikings and Designated Survivor. Every Wednesday night, we welcome Kiefer Sutherland into our homes, as would any good Canadian or American. Similar to the tv show The West Wing, I am a fan because of the quick pace, smart characters, and I have some amount of interest in politics, (I am not saying I…
I grew up watching movies that were a tad (absolutely) not made for my age range, Die Hard, Terminator, and in no particular order, Alien. That bleeping noise (not swearing here, it was an actual bleep sound) the marines would hear when their radar would tell them something was moving near them, still gets my heart pumping, not unlike the theme from Jaws. If we are talking any kind of space alien in movies, I did like The Predator better…
I recently saw The Fate of the Furious in theaters so I wanted to watch other movies starring cast members of the Furious franchise. After writing about Captain Ron and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Kurt Russell) and Prometheus (Charlize Theron), I wanted to share about 4 more that I recently viewed for the first time. They include Brick Mansions (Paul Walker), Blitz (Jason Statham and Luke Evans), The Game Plan (Dwayne Johnson), and Annapolis (Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster,…
I saw this movie in theatres twice, didn’t feel like I fully understood it, and I looked forward to watching it on Blu-ray with Director Ridley Scott’s commentary on. After watching a movie it interests me to compare what I thought of it to what the filmmakers were planning and to what others thought of it. Reading synopses, trivia, reviews, interpretations, and watching special features (in home film school!) all help me have a better understanding of what each film…
I spent the actual Mother’s Day with my wife and both of our families, and in the evening we watched the film Mother’s Day. Getting together with family on the holidays and having a meal has always been a tradition, whether we go out (like the brunch we had yesterday) or stay home (like the bbq we had later yesterday). Birthdays were the same too, go for a meal somewhere that has a huge table, not based on the food….
I saw this movie in 3D, (wearing my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles glasses, they also have a Star Lord version!) with an audience that found it as funny as I did. When a joke was said or Dave Bautista’s character Drax would laugh, nearly everyone was laughing out loud, and when everyone is up for that, (much like at a stand up comedy show, good ones anyway), you feed off the energy. The same can happen with scary/thrilling movies. Two…
Back in 1992, my family and I would rent a couple VHS movies every Sunday, this was one of those movies. Yes I returned the copy I rented, I watched this again recently on DVD. I liked seeing movies like Captain Ron because it had the same family headcount as my own, (2 parents, 2 kids) so it was easy for me to imagine what it would be like to be in it. That always added an extra joke for…
I saw the first Fast and Furious movie when it came out on DVD in 2001 with my dad. He was a car guy growing up, so I missed some of the dialogue in the film with stories of quarter mile heroics, and Dukes of Hazard stunting in small town Alberta. I wasn’t a car guy like him. I have driven cars, but after seeing these movies I know automatics don’t count, and certainly not a hand me down granny…