animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

300

I’d been wanting to see this movie ever since I laid eyes on the trailer. I was hoping to catch it in the theater, but the timing never worked out. It’s not that I’m so busy I can’t even see a movie, it’s that I only frequent the Westwood Plaza …

1408

While I don’t know this will go down in history as a classic Stephen King movie, I do know that I liked it very much. It was a scary little story. It was about a guy who writes books about haunted places, but he doesn’t believe in anything supernatural–until he …

28 weeks later

Zombies are scary! And, they were scarier than ever in this sequel to 28 Days Later. The basic premise is that a “rage virus” was leaked from a laboratory (in the first movie). Infection happens instantly after being in contact with a bodily fluid from an infectious person. This causes …

halloween

Last night, we did Margaritas and a movie (and popcorn, too!). We watched the original Halloween. I probably haven’t seen this movie in 20 years. It didn’t hold up as well as I thought it would. Perhaps it’s because I know the plot inside and out (mainly because about 100 …

vacancy

We caught this movie last night. It was quite good–very intense. When it comes to “thriller” movies, I prefer the ones with the human monsters in them rather than plain-old monsters. This one had the human variety in it so it was right up my alley. The movie was rather …