Author: piraflambe

MWG: The Outsiders (1983)

MWG: The Outsiders (1983) For this month Movie Watching – I have chosen the movie based on my favorite book when I was growing up. The Outsiders From Netflix: Francis Ford Coppola‘s drama about teen turmoil in rural Oklahoma features nearly every big name of 1980s cinema — including...

Sleepworthy Celebs IF They Were in Their Prime

So some have fallen out our our “do” list and it might because they haven’t really aged well. If they were still young and hot: 1. Clint Eastwood 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger 3. Sean Connery 4. Rick Springfield 5. Harrison Ford Now realistically I would like still keep a few...

Cars (2006)

On the way to the prestigious Piston Cup Championship, a hotshot race car who cares only about winning learns about what is really important in life from the automotive inhabitants of a town along historic Route 66. (from Fandango.) Owen Wilson supplies the voice to the selfish Lightening McQueen,...

Domino

I rented this out of the “Red Box.” I don’t know if you have them or not but they are basically dvd kiosks in grocery stores and what not for a nightly rental fee of $1. So convenient and cheap. I do this every once in a while with...

Million Dollar Baby

This movie is about an boxer trainer, Frankie (Clint Eastwood), an ex boxer, Scrap (Morgan Freeman) and a girl who wants to become a boxer, Maggie. (Hilary Swank) Maggie is from a dysfunctional lower class family and finds herself in Frankie’s gym to start training. Over time, Frankie finally...

The Longest Yard

I remember watching this movie when I was younger and couldn’t wait to see this latest version. Kat and I went from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants straight into this movie. What a difference in genre! For those who didn’t see the original or don’t know the concept –...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

This movie was hilarious! Kat and I laughed our butts off. It was a cute, funny and girlie movie. It picks up were the last movie left off. Bridget (Rene Zellweger) is completely smitten with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the stuffy lawyer she landed in the last movie. She...

Taxi

New York city cop loses his driver's license do to a few unfortunate accidents. In effort to be first on scene at a bank robbery he takes a taxi. The taxi so happens to belong to a female who aspires to be a Nascar driver. The bank robbery happens...

Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

The princess must get married within 30 days or she will lose her control of her country. Holy crap I must have been insane to think this would be a good movie. I forced my sons to go… I think they will have mental problems now. I thought the...

The Terminal

Viktor NavorskiĀ is detained at a New York airport because a “coup” caused a rebellion in his country while he was en route to the U.S. Since the U.S. is not recognizing his country he has fallen into a “crack” in the system, where he can’t step foot onto American...