Movie Review The Incredibles

The Incredibles

A super hero family hides their talents from a world wary of collateral damage from their world saving antics. Bob Incredible works in a cubicle frustrated with his dreary job. He sneaks out nights with a former super buddy and tries to save the world on a small scale. One night, he receives a message to come to a mysterious island and is captured by a super villain. His family figures out where he is and flies in to save him and the world.

You'll find whole family fun in this DVD. It's available at both Bandon and Coquille. Check it out.

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/

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The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Movie Review 10 Items or Less

10 Items or Less

10 Items or Less stars Morgan Freeman as an aging well known actor whose let fear stifle his career . He is dropped off at a small grocery to meet a director who never shows. Paz Vega captivates as the hard working clerk who befriends Freeman. He helps her turn her life around and she helps him find his spark. Quirky, real and quite funny.

Check it out at the Bandon Library. Better yet, use your card to login to and put in a hold. It's easy. Just look up the movie using keywords then select hold. This only works with the outlying libraries such as Bandon, Dora, Lakeside, Myrtle Point and Coquille. You can have it sent to the library of your choice. This does NOT work with Coos Bay and North Bend movies, but unless it's a real popular movie, you can just pick it up while you're there.

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499603/

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Movie Review Girl with the Pearl Earing

My inspiration for this blog was our amazing libraries here on the Oregon Coast. Here's the URL

http://www.cooslibraries.org/

I have internet friends who tell me their local libraries suck. As I said, I lived in Las Vegas, Berkeley and Los Angeles and all those places have great libraries. I helped a poet friend do a reading at the Las Vegas library. It was 26 years ago and I don't recall what branch, but there were over 30 people there.

My ex and I started a business in 1985 and I checked out a ton of books from the library up near his parent's house in Rancho Palos Verdes. I got a lot of marketing and business advice from that armload of how to books.

I'd been working on a nice little fiction piece and I wanted to start looking for a market so I asked Murry to take me to the library. I have poor eyesight and don't drive, so he's my chauffeur.

So we went into the library, I picked up some books and had a look around. So many books, so little time! We started poking around the DVDs and just started watching all kinds of things. I asked at the desk about a review and they said talk to the friends of the library. I left my name but no one called back.

FIRST MOVIE REVIEW
Girl with the Pearl Earing

About a month ago I was standing in the DVD section of the North Bend library when a woman mused aloud that she wanted a movie for the family to watch. She grabbed Girl with the Pearl Earing about Vermeer. I'd just seen it. I love Vermeer so I was curious about the tale. Scarlett Johansson plays the maid turned art subject for the 17th century painter. This slow and very subtle story unfolds like a moving painting. It is definitely not a family film, I told the woman.

I enjoyed the quiet romance between the maid Griet (Johansson) and Vermeer (Colin Firth.) One would have to have diverse interests and lots of patience to sit through this movie. Yes the performances are outstanding, and the look is beautiful, it's just not enough to make up for the snail's pace of the story. Big fan of the artist and actors? See it. Otherwise, pick something with more umph.

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335119/

OiVey

Introduction

Ok, I'm convinced a giant goose woke me up! ;) Honestly, some sort of alarm went off this morning and I have no clue what it was.

I've been meaning to start a blog on "interesting movies" I found at the Library so I decided since I was awake, I'd start this. I started out just picking movies off the shelf in Coos Bay and North Bend at random. I found some good ones just because I liked the actors or I'd heard about them somewhere. Then when I logged on to the library web site, I found I could click on DVDs and go through the list alphabetically. I'm still on the B's at the moment, but I think there's enough to start posting some "should see" with comments.

I'll do the movies in each of their own posts. I might even comment on an occasional book I see too. Fancy that, books at the library. ;)

As for me, I grew up in Las Vegas and "escaped" when I was 2 months shy of my 18th birthday. I moved to Berkeley, California. Talk about CULTURE SHOCK!. I moved in with some writer friend's and tried to "find myself" as a writer. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I began taking my writing serious. By then I'd moved to Los Angeles and been through a divorce.

I took journalism and graphic arts at Pasadena City College. In the late 90s, I wrote for the college newspaper and edited a couple vocational magazines. I made my first freelance sale to Pasadena Weekly in 1998. I loved school, but I couldn't figure out what university to go to, so I took a job editing a newsletter for a non profit. I hated it.

I met my husband, henceforth referred to as "Murry" and we decided to move to Oregon. He loves the coast so we toured the state and found our nice little one acre lot just outside the city limits of Coos Bay. I LOVE it here!

Okay, that's enough about me for now. My eclectic interests will show up
in the movies I review.

BTW, I am not going to do a serious, you will find in a newspaper review. In my college career I wrote only one of those and I HATED all that effort for the so so piece I wrote. I'm doing this to share my thoughts with people here who might like to know what the Library has to offer.

OiVey