May 30th, 2010
Rented the “The Blind Side” today at a Redbox. I’ve been wanting to watch the movie since I first heard about it. The star is dandra Bullock, and she is one of my favorite actresses in Hollywood. The movie is about a true story of a rich family who takes in a poor orphan boy and helps him become a football player. It’s really good. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow before I take it back to the Redbox.
April 14th, 2010
I just discovered how easy it is to rent movies at the Redbox locations. I have seen them for about 2 years now, but with cable and a busy schedule, I haven’t worried about using any rentals. But now the TV shows are really lame and there’s not much to do at night until the weather is nicer.
Since I can rent a movie for just $1 for the night, it’s a bargain – actually it is cheaper than cable even if I rent a different movie every night of the month!
So I’m going to rent a movie from Redbox and have a movie night.
September 25th, 2009
One of the seasonal entertainments in this area are big haunted houses. Most of them are very elaborate, with live actors and high tech effects.
The good ones have already opened for business this weekend and they go through the end of October. There are five or six in the area – I have to decide which one to go through this year. I can’t afford to go to them all, and they sure are fun.
September 21st, 2009
Usually I avoid the roads around the mall. The traffic is always very heavy and I hate to creep along with stop lights at every corner. But today I ended up driving through that area and I noticed that one of the big multi-screen movie theaters has switched from first run movies to the older movies and they reduced the ticket prices to a buck fifty. Now that’s a bargain and I might just start going out to the movies again to catch some of the ones I missed the first time on the big screen.
September 15th, 2009
Finally we have some of the new TV shows coming out with their season premieres. I like the way some of the popular shows are running the last one or episodes from last year before they show the new premiere. Especially when the last year’s show ended with a cliff hanger of someone getting shot or some other tragedy. I guess most of the cliff hangers are really about someone getting shot. Does this go back to the days of “Dallas” when they introduced the concept of “Who shot JR?”
July 8th, 2009
We had to go see the new Transformers movie. We’ve been waiting for it all summer.
It was a great movie. I loved all the action and the different robot characters that they introduced. The story had a few holes – but who cares? It was a fun action movie. Go see it on the big screen for maximum effect.