http://whenistopdreaming.com A blog about movies, music, and other distractions. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:04:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I get my love for country music from my Dad. I can remember him on one knee in front of the endtable/stereo, intently listening to his Johnny Cash singles, memorizing the words so he could sing them around the house. He was always singing, and despite having an ordinary voice, ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=382 I have nothing else to do on Father's Day but reminisce. I am not only fortunate to have had good fathers in my life, but have still have photos and their accompanying stories to remind me of the tremendous role that a father plays. I flip through the photos I ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=376 2009. Starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson. Directed by Oren Moverman. My Dad was fond of an old country song, "The Letter Edged in Black." He recalled that, back in the day when all communication, however urgent, relied on mail service, letters bearing bad news were enclosed in envelopes marked with ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=361 2009. Starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Directed by Scott Cooper. I've probably watched a total of 15 minutes of American Idol over the years, usually early in the season when they focus on those who perform, well, less Idol-like. Those not-ready-for-prime-time singers get a inordinate amount of airtime -- enough ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=348 Sometimes I wake up in the morning confused about what I just dreamt. Why has someone I haven't thought about in years suddenly appeared in my subconscious, or why did a person I barely know walk into the scene I watched while deep asleep? What did that appearance mean? Our ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=111 1937. Starring Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Directed by Leo McCarey. Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow is known by more than one critic as "the saddest movie ever made." I think that claim could be challenged if you consider sadness to be tragic, cruel and the result of the too-often ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=339 2002. Directed by Chan-wook Park. Starring Kang-ho Song. American movie portrayals of "vengeance" are crowd-pleasers. Mel Gibson has practically adopted the motivation as a screen persona. Vengeance as a plot device kept Charles Bronson employed for many uninspired years. Picture Harrison Ford in almost any movie in the past decade-and-a-half and ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=321 You learn something every day. One day, you know nothing about a Canadian heavy metal band named Anvil, and suddenly you learn that they've recorded twelve albums (and are working on numbers 13 and 14) and were considered to be a contemporary of metal legends like Metallica, Anthrax and Motorhead. ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=299 2009. Directed by Louis Psihoyos. I put off watching The Cove because I knew what I was going to see. Sometimes you need movies to escape the depressing aspects of life, rather than focus on them. But witnessing what happens in this brave documentary is important. The debut of this film was ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=290 2009. Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick. Directed by Jason Reitman. The irony is thick in Up In The Air. Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a happy air warrior who specializes in firing employees for timid employers all over the country. He is summoned back to HQ for a change ... http://whenistopdreaming.com/?p=277