https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/random meanderings concerning all things movie and geekyhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/541271a couple of confessions, actually. the first one is the obvious one- i haven't posted anything here for like, almost a solid week now. d'oh! the second is: this whole blog has gotten waaaay out of hand for me. see, i have definite obsessive tendencies with my personality- i tend to get very...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/539388once more into the breach! it seems only fair, after all, that following a week where you had to wait three days to get your first movie geek fix, you should end up with at least one a day early. and if you're seeing all these in one big chunk, for crap's sake, pace yourself! save one for the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/539382yikes- movie geek's getting winded. this catching up stuff gets to you after awhile... anyway, on to the foreign film limbo pick. i was of two minds on this one: on the one hand, i could discuss Pedro Almodovar's oscar winning Talk to Her, which, though i respect a great deal in terms of overall...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/539379looooots of ways i could go here this week, friends- artiness and foreign cinema go to together like cinnamon and sugar. I'm tempted to go grab bag on this one, and i believe i'll give into that temptation, largely due to time constraints created by the catching up factor generated by my illness...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/539372movie geek returns! semi triumphantly! as to where i've been the last few days- home, sick, stomach flu. yech. i had ample time to blog, but no energy to do so, as you might imagine. so it's a triumphant return in that the bug seems to have run it's course, and my eating schedule is resuming it's...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/538202well, the week's theme started with what i hope was a bit of a bang- loving tribute movies, starting with leatherheads (a homage to the long lost screwball comedy) moving on to the edgar wright/simon pegg classics shaun of the dead and hot fuzz (both of which serve partially as spoofs, but also...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/538179i never thought i'd say this but...curse these b movies! again, i'm a day late and a dollar short due to my inability to think of a b movie that fits the week's theme. there are other factors this week- work stuff, church media stuff, um, the packrat game on facebook- but enough with my excuses,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/537674the place: movie geek's blog. the goal: blog about movie geekery. the week's theme: loving tribute movies, films that intentionally emulate cinema techniques or directors of the past. the daily pick: the limbo pick, those films cursed by neither greatness nor badness, that dwell in the murky...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/537426and now, le moment of truth: as you no doubt recall from yesterday, movie geek faced a decision regarding this week's theme, based on Leatherheads being a comedy of a 1. romantic 2. sports and 3. nostalgic fashion. decisions, decisions... and when you make a tough call like this, you should...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johncrossx9941/537181for those just joining us, Leatherheads was the movie i checked out this weekend. Leatherheads marks the third feature directed by uber star George Clooney, the first being confessions of a dangerous mind, the second being Good night and good luck. movie geek was excited to check this film out- i...