For those of you not in the know (you know who you are), today marks the tenth anniversary of the release of the first Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship of the Ring. And for those of you know know me (you know who you are), you know that I think LOTR is the greatest movie [...]
The inspiration for this post came to me when I was at my local library’s monthly book sale this morning. I was cruising through the children/teen aisle, which is usually so jam-packed with kids that sometimes I can’t even get into the aisle, but luckily today it was just my daughter and me. I wasn’t [...]
That’s right, you heard it here first. When it comes to film scores – aka “the music you hear in the background of movies” – I’m a total geek. I have been ever since childhood, ever since I heard the opening theme for Star Wars…Star Wars, of course, being the one to which I compare [...]
Well, originally this particular post was going to be about books that have made me cry…until I realized that only two books have made me cry, and that’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Dumbledore dies) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Snape dies). So I really can’t write a whole post about only two [...]
We’re going to take a step away from books and tea today and talk a little about movies. More specifically, movie trailers. AKA those previews for movies that come before the movie you actually paid to go see in the theater. They usually come with this attached to them: Now before you could go on [...]
As we all know, most movies put out today were first known as books. It seems that the less creative Hollywood gets, the more they depend on authors to write books that they think will be blockbuster hits. And sometimes – sometimes - the book gets lost in all the hoopla of the movie and people [...]
