These Final Hours (2013) A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaoF6byFQFU My thoughts: An apocalyptic thriller with a lot of heart.…

Braving the elements with dad... Pics from a years back... Getting all the attention...

Paradise Lost Robert Cooper’s long-standing distaste for arugula is finally revealed.  The mysterious plant Jack and Maybourne eat in order to survive apparently tastes horrible – not unlike arugula.  Not only that but, at episode’s end, we realize it’s the cause of the frightening hallucinations that almost get them killed.  Rob’s aversion to spicy leaf…

Yesterday, I completed my blog entry, clicked "publish", checked the post, and was greeted with this... I checked the connection, then switched browsers, updated my plug-ins...an hour later, my blog was still down.  And I was feeling...ambivalent.  On the one hand, I was found the prospect of losing the chronicled details of the last 15+…

Shutter Island (2010) In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yrZSkKxTA My thoughts: What starts off as a riveting mystery devolves into a flabby and meandering second act which ultimately culminates in a preposterous twist that takes twenty minutes to fully explain.…