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Bad Timing for Buddakan
Have you ever checked out Tinsel & Tine’s list of “Next Dining Experiences”? (scroll down sidebar) Buddakan was on that list for a very long time. I was able to check it off in June, as I was treated to this long standing Stephen Starr hot spot for my birthday. For years I walked passed this restaurant and felt as if it were a private club and that I needed a special invitation to dine. The family style menu aspect always gave me the impression I needed to come with a gaggle of people. That every table would be filled with laughing, jovial large parties and anyone dining with a…
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A Little Celebrity Look-A-Like Interlude
First let’s have a little celebrity lookalike fun before we discuss Nuclear Proliferation. Does anyone else think these women could be two sets of triplets? January Jones Kristen Bell Kelly Menighan Hensley (Mad Men) (Forgetting Sarah Marshall & When in Rome) (As the World Turns) Katy Perry Zoey Deschanel Lily Allen (pop singer) (500 Days of Summer) (alternative music singer) Okay, now who wants to talk highly enriched plutonium and mass destruction!!! I discuss Lucy Walker’s documentary Countdown to Zero, on the Philadelphia Film Society Blog Click HERE to read it on PFS site.
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Commentary – Inception
Dreaming is one of the most Universal experiences the human race shares. How many times have we said to each other, " I had a dream last night that...." We take dreaming as a matter of course, whether we're the type to fly in our dreams, have more dreams remembered, or more dreams forgotten, more based in reality vs fantasy, nightmares vs oh what a good dream.
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Commentary – The Kids Are All Right
To recap the plot of the film, Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) are a lesbian couple who each had a child by the same sperm donor, Paul (Mark Ruffalo). The kids, Laser (Josh Hutcherson) and Joni (Mia Wasikowska, Alice from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland) are now at an age where they’ve decided they want to find their donor father.
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Cheap Trick at the Piazza / Submit Film to PFF
Had my blogging hat on for Philadelphia Film Society last night, at their screening of Cheap Trick’s Live at Budokan at the Piazza. I also put on my interviewing hat. Here’s an except from the post. Click the link below to read full post on PFS site. …And later during the film I sat in front of these two gentlemen, from their comments I could tell they were really familiar with the music. On the right is Robert, he has a masters in music composition. On the left is Derrick, he’s a musician that still plays quite a bit. And here’s their take on Cheap Trick: The band is one…
