Film Festival Friday, December 28, 2012

I had a longer post prepared for this in my head.  However, the need to clear the driveway every few hours as well as pack for a trip this weekend has cut down on my time!

I also have not watched as many movies as I thought I would this break.  The biggie, however, was seeing Jack Reacher last Saturday with my three cousins (we think the last movie we all saw together was Return of the Jedi in 1983!)

Subbing in for my absent brother was The Armchair Squid.  He missed lunch (which was packed with shared recollections and a whole lot of Reacher talk) but met us at the theater.  He has not read any of the books while the rest of us had.  He claims there was a lot of giggling and chatter among the four of us.

All in all we agreed it was a good movie and Tom Cruise did a fine job.  We are eager for more!!

Currently #90 on my flickchart list

Film Festival Friday: July 6, 2012

It was a weak movie week for me.  The only thing I watched was LAST Friday after I posted. And sitting and watching "Deep Impact" reminded me of why I am usually doing something else while it is playing.  It actually fell from #115 to #708 when I re-ranked it on flickchart.

So this week's film themed post brings you the "Jack Reacher" trailer.  I first saw it on Tuesday and waited until today to post it (Here, at least....I was all over it on The Facebook instantly!).  Cruise's inability to change his vocalization hurts him, but he nails enough Reacherisms to make me happy here.

BONUS:  A friend sent me these two pics he snapped last summer during filming.  The director's chair was taken through a window on the set.  The other, he says he got because "[t]hey just left the cars parked on a city street during the day, not very subtle, two hotrods next to 10 fake cop cars."

Lee Child's Jack Reacher - Free Book Online!

Comic By Comic: Lee Child's Jack Reacher - Free Book Online!

I need to get this linked before I get too busy today....

This is the sort of post I wish I could do...

What I Was Reading...Until Last Night

The Hard Way by Lee Child

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
As good as the Reacher novels get. This one had some good twists and turns. I thought the whole mystery was good and I even figured out a few things before they were revealed!



On a side note, unlike James Patterson's recent (preachy) take on the horrors of modern Africa, I thought Child did a much better job of conveying what is going on over there. It was touched upon briefly by a character who was a red herring but made sense to the overall story (again, unlike Patterson's recent "Cross" novel).



Pure escapist adventure. I had a recent "debate" on Twitter as to how many books in a series you should read in a row. I find myself wanting to grab the next immediately.


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What I Am Reading...Now!

Thanks for the suggestion Lee!

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PS Nan wondered if you like this authour because his name reminds you of what you were called when you live in New Awlins?