"Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon"

I can't get out of work fast enough tomorrow. Luckily, we are being released early. Hooray! I'll be right there seeing "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. Do I have high hopes? Nah. Loved the first one so much. Didn't hate the second one, but I don't even remember anything about it. And I never wanted to see it again. The first one I went to see at least 3 times. I do like everything Shia La Beouf is in. The last thing I saw him in  "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."  What's up with Shia being in these movies with colons in the title? 

So stay tuned. I'll let you know tomorrow if I love it! I read that Michael Bay said it was really good. Michael Bay does know how to make a very good movie...He wouldn't say that if he didn't mean it, would he? 

Screening & Panel Q&A of "Love Etc"

I finally decided last night. "Love Etc" won out. I went to see the screening and the panel discussion and Q & A afterward. I wasn't
sorry.

"Love Etc" is a documentary, set in NYC and that alone is enough reason to go. The filming is beautiful. The city is beautiful. The 5
different love stories are beautiful.

I releated to something in each of them.
It isn't like a documentary with facts. It's about people and their lives
over a year period. They are warm, funny, sweet, real.

I didn't realize that it was assigned seating. But, as luck would have
it, my seat was front row and center. I happen to like the front row
so that works. And what worked even better....the young guy in love
in the film, Gabriel, was sitting by me in the front row when the panel
discussion was taking place. Cute!!!!

Jill Andresevic, the director, did one fabulous job! And it is her first feature.
Congratulations. 

"Love Etc" opens this Friday in NYC and throughout July in other cities.
I highly recommend this very feel good film!

Love, etc or Butter

Here I am with a dilemma. Should I see Love, Etc which I already have tickets for or should I see Butter which I haven't arranged yet, but is much easier to get to?????

I'll probably go with Love, Etc because there's more to that, following the documentary, but Butter really sounds good.

I don't know any actors in the former because it's a documentary, but it is set in my favorite city, NYC. Butter, on the other hand, is set in Iowa, I think, but it stars Jennifer Garner who I like a lot. I love Thirteen Going on Thirty with her and Mark Ruffalo. And don't miss Mark's directorial debut in Sympathy for Delicious.

Stay tuned for more news on the movie I choose to go see tomorrow night!!!!

My weekend movie was 'Bad Teacher'

I was pretty anxious to see 'Bad Teacher.' I didn't think it would be a packed house (sold out) on a Saturday at 4:40 and a nice day, but it was. I got there five minutes before the trailers started and had to sit in the front row.
The audience responses (laughter) were frequent. It met all of my expectations.
And they were, it looks funny and raunchy and entertaining. A good distraction to a rather troubling week. Ain't that what it's all about? The picture I took of the movie poster mimics my week. It's just shitty. But I'm posting it anyway....
So if you like raunchy comedy, go see it. You'll like it!

Tap Tap Tap.....Savion Glover's @ The Joyce

If you love dance and you're anywhere nearby NYC starting today, June 21st, thru July 9th, you really would be giving yourself a treat to go see Savion Glover at The Joyce Theater. The Joyce is on 8th Ave @ 14th Street. I go every year and every year I am amazed, thrilled, and transported by Savion's tapping. I told him once that I've had 35 years of tap class and my feet can't begin to understand what he's doing. He replied very sweetly, "That's alright, Ma'am." Ma'am? Yikes! I've never seen anything quite like  his dancing. He epitomizes the phrase, "Being one with the dance and the music." There is not separation. He is drenched by the end, but it has all seemed completely effortless. The show is very different each time I see him. They are all spellbinding. I know I'll be there!!!