A chance hometown meeting of high school sweethearts launches this two-people-walking-and-talking-style story that you like or you don’t.* Tentative in their conversation at first, Paulson and Duplass crank up the stakes as the hours pass. It’s a quiet movie, populated with good acting and the sadness of nostalgia.
Cost: Netflix monthly subscription ($7.99)
Where watched: at home
Consider also watching: Before We Go, Before Sunrise, Gerry
*I like. Matt doesn’t.
This is a Romanian knife you are looking at! I visited Hungary & Romania with the church youth group in 2005 (and also 2008, but did not acquire any knives on that trip.) While in Romania, we visited a grocery store to pick up things for a picnic and one of the things the tour leaders brought was this knife.
It somehow got packed into one of the other chaperone’s things and when we were repacking before our flight back to the US, she asked if anyone wanted it. I volunteered and it’s been a good workhorse since that time.
Various problems with DVDs and many holds at the library meant that watching this classic was a long time coming. However, once I successfully did press play, I was thrilled to find that this is a classic for a reason. Almost filmed in real time, the tension increases with each scene as we find out more of why Marshal Will Kane’s story.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home
Consider also watching: Rudy, Battle of the Sexes, the Martian, Legally Blonde
And here is our scratch-off poster roundup:
This clock will be familiar to all who watch this movie.
I tend to be less impressed with scratch-offs that just reproduce obvious things like this iconic picture.
And this one.
Into everyone’s life some not-very-good movies must come,* and this falls in the not-good category. I think what it was lacking was the spark that made me want to root for the characters, though Bell and Grammer tried their best. The Newlywed Game scene was amusing, but other than that, this movie was a big thumbs down.**
Cost: Netflix monthly charge ($7.99)
Where watched: at home.
*And as I watch a lot of movies I see a goodly number of so-so features. I watch them so you don’t have to.
**On the plus side, it’s a movie written and directed by a woman. Let’s hope Lauren Miller Rogan has some more directing opportunities in the future.
Consider watching instead: Dan in Real Life, Hanna, Father of the Bride, the Descendants
It was fun to revisit this film and the Ocean’s 11 gang, especially since I had forgotten all but a few details of the plot. The European locations were gorgeously filmed and the heist was more unbelievable, but still fun. Vincent Cassel was very fun to watch as Francois Toulour.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home with Matt who enjoyed.
Consider also watching: Ocean’s Thirteen, Point Break, The Italian Job, Fast Five
This is from friend Kelly, thanking me for attending her birthday celebration. The object in the left corner of the card is a bit of masking tape. Kelly initially wrote the wrong address, so covered it with masking tape and re-addressed. I hadn’t thought of using masking tape for such a purpose, but it would come in handy if one didn’t have any blank labels.
Sentinel and Antares have lived together for nearly a decade now, and I’m still not sure if they like each other. They don’t hate each other, as their skirmishes are few and far between. And they will often curl together to sleep for some period of time before one of the gets bored and wanders off, or gets annoyed and pushy.
This picture came about because Sentinel was sleeping in the windowsill and Antares got in his face. Is this a picture of Sentinel holding his ground in the face of Antares pushiness? Or are they happy to be sharing the same space?
I dropped the large glass jar that holds my all purpose flour and it shattered. Sentinel showed interest, hopping forward to eagerly sniff things, but when I redirected him outside the kitchen he sat and watched me clean up the mess.
It was only after I set the garbage can outside of the kitchen area so I could clean around it that he investigated.
It turns out Sentinel is a fan of flour, though I shooed him away from the garbage can due to all the glass.
I’m a believer in the collective, so I love when families of all kinds ride the train. Today there was this sweet photo, which not only included a child sleeping, but the parent reading a book.
There’s been a lot of wildfire smoke hanging out in Portland this week. I haven’t been riding my bike because of it, and wish it would go away. It does make for pretty sunrises and sunsets though.
