2008 Pop Culture Year-In-Review

The Best and Worst Pop Culture Moments of 2008   for me, at least
movies | television | celebrities | books | music

Favorite New Film

WALL•E — Even all these months later, my affection for the film continues to resonate. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, full of joy and life, comedy and tragedy. That it’s a computer-animated entity still [...]

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

December 26, 2008, at AMC Stonebriar, Frisco, Texas
UPDATE 01.22.09 –> Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actress (Taraji P. Henson), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography plus 7 more categories
 

So much can be said about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and yet so little could do it justice. The [...]

AUSTRALIA

December 8, 2008, at AMC Stonebriar, Frisco, Texas

The country down under has been the land of my dreams since I was a young girl. I first discovered Australia twenty-six years ago, in 1982, while (appropriately) sitting in the cinema and watching The Man From Snowy River. Not only did I fall head over heels for [...]

finding an appreciation for Simon Pegg

Sometimes it takes me a good long while to find appreciation for certain actors, but one of my greatest joys in this life comes in those moments when I see something that I hadn’t noticed before. When I “discover” someone for the first time or realize that I’ve overlooked something in all the previous exposure [...]