Movie Madness - An Education

Great film about life in London in the 60s. Well, life in London in the 60s if you're a Catholic school girl that falls in love with an older man. It was quite an education.

Wild Thing

I had my little wild thing home for the weekend and number one on the to do list was to see Where The Wild Things Are. It was one of our favorite books from Shana's childhood. We had it memorized and would quote from it when we were out and about, talking about Max and the teeth-gnashing monsters, but mostly it was the last line - "and it was still hot" - that would somehow stand for "everything will be ok" and never failed to make us smile. Our planned Saturday night movie out turned into swinging in the park and a Netflix DVD at home on the couch with Wild Thing, the original, Aunt Amy. The next showing on Sunday turned out to be just a father-daughter affair. Shawn and Shana loved it. It was different from the book, though, they said. Max goes outside, his mom is divorced and there was no "and it was still hot." No and it was still hot? I'm glad I skipped it.

Upcoming Movie Madness - ADAM

How about a little love story? Meet the gang on MONDAY, August 24th at CAMELVIEW at 2:00pm to see Adam.

Kiss, kiss

Movie Madness - Julie & Julia

In keeping with the food theme from our last movie (Food, Inc. - go see it, it will change your life - or maybe just the contents of your shopping cart), Movie Madness had a great turnout to see Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia. There are some super articles about the movie, Julia Child and the fabulous Nora Ephron in recent New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines, if you want some extra credit. I loved the film. Books are always better than the movie, of course, but this one came close to portraying both women and all of their similarities very well. The food, the marriages, the stress, the food, and Paris (gorgeous, I'm moving) made us all so hungry we had to stroll next door to Pita Jungle and talk about all of our marriages and stress and eat, eat, eat! Bon Appetit!