Movie Review | Eagle Eye (Chesapeake Family Magazine)

This week I review Eagle Eye, a not-terrible techno-thriller starring the overemployed Shia LaBeouf. I hope you'll check it out--and forgive the one or two errors I failed to catch. (I used "who" instead of "whom"--I may have my licence revoked.)

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Up next is Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, for Tuesday, October 7. (The clock is ticking on Michael Cera, by the way--he needs to make a move soon or risk becoming the Anthony Edwards of his generation.)


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Movie Review | Igor (Chesapeake Family Magazine)

Up on the Movie Tuesday blog is my latest review, of the computer-animated family film Igor. Feel free to check it out and respond with your opinions, if you like.

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Back, baby

My role in the Intertubes sensation known as Movie Tuesday resumes this week with an overwritten little gem about my first big-screen experience. My review/reminiscence thingy, on Disney's Pinocchio and its effect on my four year-old ass, can be found on the Movie Tuesday blog at chesapeakefamily.com.

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When was your first time?

What was the first movie you saw in the theater?

It's an interesting question, I think--when and how you first shared in the most unifying cultural experience of the last hundred years. So chime in. I've created a group on Facebook that people can join (or not) and post their reminiscences.

And by the way, I'll be returning to Movie Tuesday Sept. 16 with a love letter to a simpler time, my memories of my first film in the theater, Walt Disney's Pinocchio. See you then.


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Taking a break...

...this week from the Movie Tuesday blog. My friend and editor Kristen Page-Kirby is up next.

Kristen also has a great blog called New Mommy, about her adventures with a small, needy creature who refuses to leave her house.

Please continue checking out Movie Tuesday and the magazine itself--it's a great site, and getting better all the time. And it looks especially good to the staff when people link to them through my blog--the better I am for business, the better I am for business, you know?

I'll be back up Tuesday, September 16, when both Kristen and I will be reviewing and reminiscing about the very first movie we saw in the theater (me = Pinocchio; her = The Muppet Movie). Thanks to everyone for their support, and...


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Movie Review: Disaster Movie (Chesapeake Family Magazine)

Achieved only with great and terrible suffering, my review of Disaster Movie is now up on the Movie Tuesday blog.

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I'm keepin' my baby

So I came home with an infant on Saturday night. These things happen.

Actually, I won the little fellow in a raffle. My friend Lucan had a big birthday bash-slash-Obama fundraiser this past weekend, and among the prizes on offer was this bundle of joy:

He's about 13 inches long and weighs about 3 oz. I've named him Mortimer, and I've decided to raise him Zoroastrian.

Okay, straight up: It's a tape sculpture, made by D.C-based artist Mark Jenkins. Mark is an internationally renowned visual artist whose Storker Project involves "dropping" these ephemeral pieces in public spaces around the world. Check out his amazing work at http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/.

My thanks to Lucan Klyne, Mark Jenkins and all the Obama supporters and well-wishers at LUCANfest three-oh.

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It was my job...

...to see Disaster Movie this weekend. This one makes The House Bunny look like Peer Gynt.

Can't.... get... clean...

The review comes out Wednesday.


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