Recent Posts Tagged With 'movies'

• 5 "Must See" Christmas Entertainments

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 22:25 in movies, holidays, cartoons, christmas, charlie brown

  And just like that it’s Christmastime again. Okay it took a year since the last time…but it doesn’t seem that long, does it? The season is a celebration…of the Christ child’s birth…of the wondrous bonds of love and friendship that infor...

• Astro Boy

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 in movies, cartoons, super-heroes

  When I was a youngster, Astro Boy was one of my favorite cartoons...every weekday afternoon I would come home from school (Menlo Avenue Elementary in Los Angeles) and watch it with rapt attention and glee. When I heard they were making a new movie I...

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 18:16 in movies, youtube, comedy, pop culture, beatles

  The day started off gray…outside (the clouds would not give way to the hazy sunshine until late morning) and in (I was feeling out of sorts for no reason I could put my finger on from the moment I woke up)…and it seemed like that was going to be ...

• Robert Downey, Jr. - Smile

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 23:26 in music, movies, video, youtube

  Robert Downey, Jr. with an interesting...and cool...take on Charlie Chaplin's classic song "Smile" (from the soundtrack of Chaplin.)...

• Monsters Vs. Aliens

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 15:59 in movies, comedy, cartoons

  Plot? Well, the title pretty much sums it up (I guess you could read some tolerance stuff in the subtext...but this isn't really a "subtext" kinda movie.) But that doesn't matter...Monsters Vs. Aliens is fast paced and beautifully rendered with eno...

• 2009 Academy Award Nominations

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 14:31 in movies, Movie Stars, television, awards, oscars

  The Dark Knight didn’t make the cut in the “big” Academy Award categories…save for the totally expected (and deserved) Best Supporting Actor nod for the late Heath Ledger…and neither did Clint Eastwood (I haven’t seen Gran Torino but a lo...

• 10 for '08...

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 14:10 in music, movies, television, 30 rock, emmylou harris, queen latifah, pop culture lists, super-heroes, cassandra wilson

  …being a semi-random (well it is in alphabetical order…more or less… so it’s not as random as it might otherwise be) list of 10 pop culture people and things that warmed the cockles of Neverending Rainbow’s jaded heart in 2008. CSI: CRI...