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                                                                            MIA Mia was the name of a girl in college who was very hot and ended up in some music videos however, this post is not about that.  As Zac Effron's "Sowwyyy" face implies, this is just to inform those who have been asking about new posts that I've been M.I.A. because I am taking a course that turned out to be more of a pain in the a$$ than it should be.  The point is, in the end, it will help me create better content.  I don't want to half ass posts here just for the sake of having something so I will definitely keep posting here once some technical academic issues resolve.  In the meantime, feel free to look through my archives here going all the way to last year. Also, you can follow me on Twitter...

1. Call Me By Your Name This international co-production takes place in the 80's and the cinematography nicely reflects that.  Very strong performances by both the Lone Ranger Army Hammer and the kid  Timothée Chalamet (who was also in Lady Bird ).  The story deals with a boy and his father's adult professorial assistant falling in love/lust.  Hold ooon, hold on, it takes place in Italy where the age of consent is probably lower.  Probably. In any event, the film looks like it belongs in the Criterion collection where were it not for the date on the credits, would be indiscernible from a movie shot in 1983.  The story itself feels like it drags on a little too much, they make the audience wait for the payoff where both characters realize how they feel about each other.  The sex scenes are not explicit, they are minimally shown and/or implied.  This movie reminded me of Brokeback Mountain , not because of the homosexual overtones but be...

Happy Belated New Year This is the first post in 2018 and I wanted to make it a nice one. The Reason?  Not just a Hoobastank song but sometimes life and things get in the way.  I've been busy going back to school part time, and work has been silly.   Anyway, in addition to that, the 90th Academy Awards are coming up and I decided to watch every single best picture nominated film along with a few others and write about it.  I had to space these out between homework and annoying responsibilities and relationships thus, it took a while but at last, here we are. I will split this into two posts because I read an article saying people won't read stuff if there's too many words.  Except when it comes to dating, people like things nice and short.  Therefore, in no particular order, my short responses to last year's best movies (according to the Academy).  1. Get Out Jordan Peele 's directorial debut of a smart and socially aware ...

                                                                                                             The Shape of Water:      (An abused, humanoid fish species can find love with a woman and I can't even get a text back.) After a successful Christmas,  I took a day off work and went to go watch the highly anticipated The Shape of Water .  My interest in this film started over ten years ago when my buddy Guillermo Del Toro was in talks to direct The Creature From the Black Lagoon   remake but then it fell apart. When I first learned about The Shape of Water  my excitement returned and came to think of this as an unofficial Creature re-telling and in a way it cou...

Memorable Christmas Commercials In no apparent order, some of the more memorable Christmas commercials from the 90's.  the best decade to grow up in.                                           Fruity Pebbles Christmas This one for Fruity Pebbles if from the early to mid 90's and it involves part of our favorite modern Stone Age family. Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles commercials always had Fred getting unreasonably mad that Barney was trying to steal a bowl of cereal even though Fred seemed to always have boxes of it. At one point, Barney had to have just simply asked Fred for a bowl of cereal and eventually Fred said no.  Sometimes in my head I wonder how much of a dick Fred was or if Barney was one of those people who always want to leach off of you and never do anything in return.  In any case, Barney impersonates Santa and breaks in to Fred's house o...

The Most Annoying Christmas Songs For a couple years now, every November we get treated to 24/7 Christmas music from certain stations.  Some think it's too early and some look forward to that day. There's even countdowns until the station switches over to X-mas music.  This year, I was excited but decided not to tune in until after Thanksgiving was over.  As much as I love Christmas songs, there are certain songs which I detest and cannot stand.  I often think of how cool it would be if we could write a list of songs for radio station to never play again ( Living La Vida Loca, Despasito, Don't Stop Believing, Enter the Sandman ) based on their constant rotation.  During Christmastime, there are songs that are just bad, not necessarily because they are played a lot, but because they are boring, tedious or annoying.  I hope I don't upset Jesus, a lot of the songs on this list are about His birth.  I love Jesus but these songs do Him a disservic...

Merry Christmas..time season.  Enjoy some 80's goodness!