Movie Poster Wednesday

Spring Break

 

 In Texas, we skipped winter all together this year and went right into spring.  The weather is great, baseball is right around the corner, and I've got the fever.  Life is good.  Lawn mowing and car washing started this past weekend and man does it feel great to be outside.  We started this past weekend by checking out some garage sales, going to the boy's soccer game, and driving around listening to some Sheryl Crow.  Good times.  My break means no new releases this week and when I did check the Chipmunks lead all new releases so it is a bad week for them.

The Rangers are wrapping up spring training and still have not got themselves a reliable backup infielder so it is welcome new to see that Andres Blanco got optioned by the Nationals.   Andres did a fine job here the last two years but a bad back sidelined him the last part of the season so I bet the Rangers will be checking in with him.

Movie Poster Wednesday

New Release Tuesday

American remake with one of the greatest directors working today, David Fincher.  I do not know alot about this flick heading into it and that is the way I want it.  I enjoy all of Fincher's work even Alien 3.  Kudos to the studio for letting Fincher stick with the dark subject and putting his version on the screen and not making him clean it up for the big screen.

Remake from the BBC late seventies mini series with the late Sir Alec Guiness.  One of the movies from the awards movie season I have been looking forward to seeing the most.  I really wanted Gary Oldman to win the best actor trophy for this role and was shocked when Oscar noms came out and realized this was his first nomination. 

We caught this in the theater and the parents enjoyed this more then the kids.  Nice trip back to my kid hood watching all the Muppets reunite on the big screen again.  I loved Chris Cooper in this, not at all a role you would expect him in and that was surprising.  Maniacal laugh... maniacal laugh...


I am beginning to worry about Rangers closer Joe Nathan.  He has not looked good so far and today we hear Feliz left early with a shoulder strain.   Contenders do not head into the season with closer issues.

AMC's the Walking Dead season 2 wrapped up this past Sunday to a very fulfilling finale.  The group had to move on from the farm as it was taken over by zombies.  Rick has claimed himself dictator as he finally disclosed what the CDC told him last season.  The group moves on to look for a new pad as there is a Shawshank looking place nearby.

FX's Justified continues tonight as Raylan and the Carpetbagger look to square off OK Corral style.

Movie Poster Wednesday

New Release Tuesday

Ms. Gauntlet would love to be Ms. Clooney so this is on her required watching list.  I get it, she's got George and I've got Clint.  Anyway, this is about a man connecting back to his family after his wife is injured in a boating accident and he learns some other things along the way.

Reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.  Nice looking flick for the whole family.

 About the legendary Marilyn Monroe who goes to London to film a movie as a worker on the film gets to know the real Marilyn, not the bubble headed bleach blonde on the big screen.

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth.   Arty looking film but the end of the world thing has me intrigued.

Rangers spring training keeps on keeping on and so far it is a quiet camp and that is a good thing.  Has any Ranger team ever had this much pitching depth?

The Walking Dead is down to the season finale for next week as the show took another big hit this week and we are also learning you do not have to be bit by a zombie to change after you die.

On Justified Raylan is giving the bad guys a taste of their own medicine by playing them against each other to root them all out.  I am starting to think Limehouse is the main baddie to watch out for.
 

Super Clint