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It’s Time for the 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival! #PFF22
Wow! Has it been a year already? Believe it or not, I lost a boyfriend over PFF21. We met on Labor Day weekend and mistakenly spent almost every moment with each other from that point on. I warned him that I’d be pretty busy for 2 weeks once the Philadelphia Film Fest started up, as I’d be trying to cover a number of films and events for Tinsel & Tine. He seemed okay with it in theory, but once I was in the midst of it all, he got resentful that it was taking up so much of my time, but also didn’t want to join me. There were of…
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Ode to: NATIONAL COFFEE DAY (Best Coffee To Go)
TODAY IS NATIONAL COFFEE DAY! Coffee is my drug of choice – I love the ritual of it, the smell of it brewing, the taste on its own, but particularly with a goodie or pizza or at a diner with a burger. In fact, I normally ask the waitress to hold my coffee until the meal comes because so many foods taste better with coffee. Drinking coffee gives me an elated feeling, not just alert, but for about an hour or so I feel actually happy and then a nice level off to normal. But… Later I crash and get weepy and moody or my adrenaline system feels on…
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Acclaimed Broadway Musical ONCE Coming to Philly!
I’ve only seen the movie Once – well, once, in the theater in 2006, two years before starting Tinsel & Tine, so I never wrote about it, but it’s always stuck with me. There’s a strangely magical simplicity to this little love story between a Dublin guitarist / singer-songwriter (Glen Hansard) who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners and this Czech girl (Markéta Irglová) who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. The soundtrack also struck a chord with me – particularly the song “Falling Slowly”, which I still listen to fairly…
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Do You Know How Many Calories are in Guacamole?: ENOUGH SAID
Once you reach a certain age an you’re either still single or single again, you’re sorta like a used book on Amazon; anyone looking to buy the book thinks why didn’t they keep the book? Why is the price so reasonable? How worn is it? Maybe it’s better to buy a new one. Seeing the recommendations from other buyers who rate the sellers, helps a lot with your decision to purchase a used book. And this is basically the premise of writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s latest movie Enough Said. T&T Enough Said Synopsis: Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a middle-aged, divorced woman with a daughter who’s about to go off to…
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FREE SCREENING PASSES (Philly) And Mini Review – DON JON
Post Update 9/22 – Sorry, all the passes have been taken. Be sure to like our facebook page, or follow on twitter or pinterest, so you’ll be the first to know next time Tinsel & Tine has giveaways! What drew me to this film, Don Jon (click for trailer) was the fact that it was written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt! But when I mentioned this to 2 friends, both of which watch a fair amount of movies, they said, “Who?” I find that strange, since he’s been a staple actor for me since playing an alien in the TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun. But I would think…
