~Tuesday~ Tonight I watched Lipstick & Liquor, another movie I’d never heard of until scrolling through the list of movies available free with my Amazon Prime subscription. Although I didn’t see it marked explicitly as a documentary, I assumed from its write-up that it was, and I like documentaries, so I went for it. Being … Read more
~Sunday~ Tonight I watched Everybody’s Fine, a movie I’d never heard of until scrolling through the list of movies available free with my Amazon Prime subscription. I only saw the picture of the male star, and was calling him Robert Duvall in my mind, until the intro credits began rolling and pointed out that it … Read more
~Monday~ Using my Amazon Prime subscription, I started watching Chasing Amy, and about 15 minutes into it, I abandoned it. Too much smoking and smoke being blown in people’s faces. And way too heterocentric for my taste. Since Ben Affleck was at top of mind, I chose Jersey Girl, probably because it was on the … Read more
~Saturday~ It all started on Saturday, January 3, 2015. Bob was gracious enough to rent Love in the Time of Cholera with his NetFlix subscription to watch with me. My Mostly Social Book Club is currently reading the book, and I’d already read it in February of 1995, as a member of another book … Read more
~Friday~ Using my Amazon Prime subscription, I watched Enemy, with the sole draw to it being that Jake Gyllenhaal was in it. (As two different characters, no less.) Such a beautiful man. I’d never heard of this movie, and it was truly bizarre. I spent a lot of time during the entire thing wondering what … Read more
~Sunday~ I once again used my Amazon Prime subscription to stream a free movie—an unfinished life. I’d never heard of this movie, but it was in one of the “suggested watching” sections, and it had some heavy-hitting actors in it, including Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. Jennifer Lopez was in it, too, but since I … Read more
~Tuesday~ Bob and I caught the 7:00 screening of The Theory of Everything, for which Eddie Redmayne won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and an Oscar-nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, whose winner is yet to be decided. We saw it … Read more
~Monday~ I watched the 1960 version of The Little Shop of Horrors, not realizing that I would never hear the song Suddenly Seymour at anytime during the movie. I watched this movie free as part of my Amazon Prime subscription, and I was happy to not have paid for it—more so because I’m cheap than … Read more
~Monday~ The first free movie I streamed using my new Amazon Prime subscription was the documentary Stories We Tell. I first heard about this film back in May of 2013, when Terry Gross interviewed the actor-director, Sarah Polley, on Fresh Air. Here's the 38-minute segment, if you're interested. The trailer: The synopsis: In this inspired, … Read more
~Wednesday~ At the Planet Fitness I go to, I've been observing, what are at once called "sanitation stations" and "cleaning stations," depending on who is giving the tour to prospective new customers. Each station consists of a paper towel dispenser, a caddy holding two spray bottles of disinfectant cleaner, and a trash can. Here's what … Read more