Ghost Town

I netflixed this movie and watched it last night. I was pleasantly surprised! It stars Ricky Gervais, who is a star in the UK and star of the original Office tv series, and Greg Kinnear, and Tea Leoni. Ricky Gervais has a death scare and as a result, can now see ghosts. The ghosts notice, and all try to get him to take care of their unfinished business. Greg Kinnear, one ghost, wants Ricky Gervais to break up his widowed wife with her current fiance.

It's funny and serious. As I was explaining this to Juan, it's a cross between Ghost and Heart and Souls (old-school Robert Downey Jr movie). It was a pretty good movie overall. Did I ever mention the movie Flash of Genius starring Greg Kinnear and Miss Lorelai Gilmore- Lauren Graham? The synopsis is that he invents the intermittent windshield wiper, and his idea gets stolen. So he takes on Corporate car businesses in a lawsuit. Sounds horribly boring, I know, but I loved that movie, and now I guess I'm a fan of Greg Kinnear.

PS Weather in Utah is fabulous right now, I just ran errands and drove with my windows down wearing no coat! It is January, love it. Too bad I have commitments today and all night that keep me inside. Let's hope the warmness lasts all weekend.

Wicked!

I just had to brag and say my sister got me a ticket to Wicked for April. They are coming to Salt Lake and she got the tickets for pennies compared to what they're going for now. I've never been but adore the soundtrack and am a musical lover. I can't wait.

Just something to look forward to throughout the cold winter.

Christmas Photos

The Christmas season is over and I miss it already. We had a wonderful vacation with family in town and lots of time spent with the family.

Movies Galore

We saw a million movies over the holiday break. And they were all serious and somber, I feel like I need to get in a comedy pretty soon here.

Seven Pounds

I love Will Smith. He is a wonderful actor. That said, Seven Pounds was a very slow-paced movie. I read the review before and was nervous I would fall asleep, but it kept me interested through its slowness. Rosario Dawson was lovely and it's a love story, and a story of redemption. I enjoyed seeing it in the theaters, but probably would not see it again. 3 out of 5.


Doubt

I was drawn to this movie because of the Oscar buzz and its wonderful actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams. It was a good movie, but as my brother-in-law Sam put it, the whole movie could be summed up in 2 sentences, and it was a 2 hour movie. It is about a catholic school and the main nun accuses the father of abusing a child. Very dark in tone, which I liked. The acting was worth it and I give it a 3 out of 5.


Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This was my favorite out of all 4 holiday movies. Also getting Oscar buzz, the story just makes me smile. It's about a boy who is born looking like he is 90 years old, and he ages backwards. It got kind of bizarre when he had lived a full life and reverted back into a baby, but all in all I really really liked the movie. The love story was so good and Brad Pitt, who I don't particularly like or dislike, did a very good job at playing a man of all ages. Someone in front of me said the movie reminded them of The Notebook, that's pushing it too far, the love story wasn't that good! I heard another comparison to Big Fish, and that is a far better comparison. 4 out of 5.

Valkyrie

Juan just had to see this movie. He loves Tom Cruise (don't even try the Scientology weirdo, he has Katie locked up theory on Juan, he gets very defensive). I did not like this movie. It is during WWII and I just finished a fabulous book set in WWII and so of course I was comparing. The character development was not good. I was not invested in the main characters, although it was quite suspenseful at times. It's about an assassination attempt on Hitler, which also ruined the movie because we all know it wasn't successful. There was no suspense when it came to that. 2 out of 5.