I’d seen some trailers for The Boss this week, and read a little about how great “Spy” was. Apologies for the clip, but do you remember this scene in Bridesmaids? When she’s asking where he keeps his gun? When she pulls out the nano, I lose it: So I thought: “Okay, that same actress is…
Slava Fetisov is a boss, guys. If you weren’t alive in the 1980s, or were too young to understand what, exactly the “Miracle on Ice” was, you might not know who Fetisov is. If you watch Red Army though, after only about 3 minutes in, and see him condescend to the off-screen documentary film-maker, Gabe…
The other weekend, we watched 4 movies, more-or-less in a row. We watched Room and Creed, both of which I liked – despite the fair amount of rape in Room, and that Creed caused us to revisit one of our biggest marital disagreements. (In a nutshell: how rigged is fighting? Me: “All of it”; Q: “You…
Q and one of his friends have a ritual: they watch Walking Dead together. Because we’ve been busy these past couple of weeks, Q’s missed the ritual, so he sat down to watch the most recent two episodes with me. I hadn’t known what I was missing. Nothing. Me: “What is this? It looks like it…
Last Tuesday was a bad day. I made a costly mistake, I was overtired. It was dark and rainy. I got ripped off, I felt like an idiot. I went home, curled into bed, and hated the world. As I lay there, the dog jumped on the bed. I patted the mattress beside me, and…
My sister and I saw Boom last night, a one-man play about the Baby Boomer generation. If you’re in Canada and you have a chance to see it, I’d highly recommend it. I tend to be both present- and forward-looking, which can mean I see only problems that need to be solved. Watching Boom made…
At work, I sit between two football fans. On Monday, when they got in, they started talking about the weekend’s playoff games. This is what I retained: “Patriots! Belichick! Headsets! Hail Mary! Chaos Theory!” They were so into it, it made me want to learn more about football. Truthfully, I wish I watched more sports.…
We are four episodes in to Making a Murderer, and I am: Sad that I have a job so I can’t stay up all night watching it Enjoying how good the documentary filmmakers who made this are at their jobs Wondering if I should have been a criminal lawyer (To be fair, the legal career…
At times, while watching Cartel Land, M and I looked at each other like: “This is crazy! Is this real?” Of course, sadly, it is. It follows two vigilante groups as they fight against Mexican drug cartels: one group, the Autodefensas, in Mexico; the other, the Arizona Border Recon, in Arizona. I’ve seen the film…
