movies out on video!

Two movies just came out on video that I'm dying to rent...

Sunshine Cleaning, with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt about getting a job cleaning up after crime scenes.

Adventureland, with Michael Cera, Ryan Reynolds, and Kristen Stewart, about working a crappy summer job as a carny.

Yay for movies on video this week! And why I am all about messed-up occupations today?

movie wish-list

I frequently think of movies I want to see, and then forget all about them come time to actually watch a movie. So for posterity, these are movies I would like to see:

• Cadillac Records
• Rachel Getting Married
• Wanted
• Benjamin Button
• Single White Female
• The Way We Were
• The Deal
• Then She Found Me
• Dreamgirls

Now I can throw away the little slip of paper on my desk with random movies scrawled across it, in the fear that I will forget.

**UPDATE**

Had to add some coming-of age movies to my wishlist:

• Adventureland
• Kicking and Screaming
• Reality Bites
• The Graduate

St. Elmo's Fire is also on this list, but I'm pretty sure I've already seen it.

Julie Pickett-Hall

weekend recap

Did we ever have a busy weekend! 6 kids, 2 movies, and a patio later it's back to work.

C's had his last baseball games on Friday, so that gives us some more time to finish up the patio, which is now ready for concrete. I did learn how to drive the bobcat this weekend, which was interesting. Not altogether hard, but a little unnerving when you lift the load up high to dump it. We spent all day Saturday digging, but it was a lot easier in the afternoon when things dried up.

Saturday night we rented "Confessions of a Shopaholic" which was a cute movie. Love Isla Fisher.

Sunday we went to church and lovely L brought a friend with her, and they talked about the mission trip they took last month. Everyone was reapply impressed with what they did there and what they had to say about it.

S spent the afternoon and evening Sunday dumping gravel, forming, and compacting everything for the patio so that we can have concrete poured next weekend. It will be so nice to have it all done and be able to relax back there, but I'll always know how much effort he put into building it.

Last night, D and I finally got together and watched Twilight. It's better than the book, I think. Edward is less of a creepy abuser in the movie and Kristen Stewart is very likable. Next on our list is Harry Potter 5, but we keep saying that we need to get to the library. S and I don't have kids next weekend, so we might be able to manage to get over there before next week. I also wrapped up Eclipse last night, so I'll have to start in on the last Twilight book this week.

Overall a busy weekend, but actually quite fun.

Julie Pickett-Hall

movie night

Went and watched Public Enemies last night with D. It was a fairly good movie, and mostly historically accurate. I like how the public was so adoring of John Dillinger in the movie, but I'm not sure they went too deep into why that was.

D noticed that much of the movie was in extreme close-up, and I agree with that. It sort of made you feel like leaning back through most of it. All-in-all there were a lot of close-up and car scenes, and not very much development of characters other than Depp and Bale.

My absolute favorite scene was in the jailhouse between Depp and Bale. They had a short conversation, but it was very smart and snarky.

D and I might try and get the first Twilight movie this weekend to watch, since neither of us has seen it and we've both read the book. We might also look for Harry Potter 5, which D has never seen, so we can see 6 sometime soon. I haven't seen so many movies in years! It's so nice to have friends in town again.

Julie Pickett-Hall