Ryan McNeil
That sound you hear is that of me snoring on the morning of an extra-long weekend. I won’t be sleeping in too late mind you – Toronto Blue Jays tickets go on sale this morning, and I am a man of priorities. I think I’m supposed to drive someone to the airport too…
Looking forward to a lot of geekery this weekend. There’s the last major Oscar nominee for me to see at the cinema. There is a PVR full of TCM’s ’31 Days of Oscar’ offerings. And there are two podcasts to be recorded on Sunday! Like I say – a lot of geekery.
How about you folks, any plans? If you’re participating in the Blind Spot Series, you might want to track down your next film…after all, the next post will be going up in a mere eleven days!
In other news, part of me wonders if I’ve become a Criterion precog. See, over the last two nights I watched BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, and then yesterday they announced a Criterion edition of the film will be dropping this May. I’m testing the theory out by watching MEMENTO on loop.
For your reading and listening fulfillment, I give you…
The MaMo boys dissect the impact and legacy of THE PHANTOM MENACE on the occasion of its 3-D re-release.
Limette honours some films of 2011 with haiku! How awesome is that – I ask you.
Jess is midway through a month of Oscar watching. Her look at GOSFORD PARK might be of interest to any Downton Abbey fans out there looking for a fix.
In this age of franchise fever, Darren wonders what it takes to convince viewers to bite on a sequel.
Last week, I was lucky enough to catch A MAN ESCAPED at The Lightbox. Marc at Row Three has articulated many thoughts I had regarding the film quite nicely.
The Matinee did not mark the passing of Whitney Houston, but Rich at Wide Screen World did. Specifically, he wonders what it was about ‘that movie’ and ‘that song’.
As for the tweet of the week, here’s one that seems rather apropos the week that Lady Hatter bought me an ATTACK THE BLOCK blu-ray for Valentines:
[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/CouchPotatoClub/status/170370949080813568″]
Enjoy!
That tweet sums up my feelings about buying movies now for my girlfriend. We have very similar tastes, so there are no bad DVDs on the shelf.
I’m just now starting to warm to the idea of buying dvd’s for Lindsay that I ordinarily would buy for myself.
Time to finally merge those DVD shelfs huh? =)
Not on your life dude. She bought THE MIGHTY DUCKS 1 and 2 last month…hardly persuasive