Watchmen Comedian Poster ~ More Locations Added!

Rochester - 1/31-2/1
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Olympia Sports (3225 State Route 364, Canandaigua) Sat&Sun from 4-6pm to get The Comedian poster!

Syracuse - 1/30-31
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Kitty Hoynes (301 West Fayette Street) Fri&Sat until 2am to get The Comedian poster!

For more information:
43kix.com/Watchmen

Sign up for WATCHMEN updates, including the secret locations and to enter the VIP contest, fill in the form Watchmen Updates or text VEIDT along with your zip code to 43549 (ex. VEIDT 91505). Only one entry per phone is allowed, so if you've already entered, just stay close to your phone and wait for WATCHMEN updates.

Watchmen Comedian Poster

Chicago - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Navy Pier IMAX Box Office (700 E. Grand) on Fri 1/30 from 2-3pm to get your Silk Spectre poster!

Cincinnati - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Joseph-Beth Booksellers (2692 Madison Rd. #M) on Fri 1/30 from 5-6p to get your Silk Spectre poster!

Boston - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Nuggets (486 Commonwealth Avenue) on Fri 1/30 from 12-2pm to get your The Comedian poster!

Los Angeles - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Golden Apple Comics (7018 Melrose Ave, LA) on Fri 1/30 from 6-7p to get your The Comedian poster!

Portland - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Blockbuster Video (6144 SE Foster Rd. Portland) Fri 1/30 from 5-6p to get your Nite Owl poster!

Seattle - 1/30
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Stop by Silver Platters (701 5th Ave N., Seattle) on Fri 1/30 from 10a-10p to get your Nite Owl poster!

For more information:
43kix.com/Watchmen


Sign up for WATCHMEN updates, including the secret locations and to enter the VIP contest, fill in the form Watchmen Updates or text VEIDT along with your zip code to 43549 (ex. VEIDT 91505). Only one entry per phone is allowed, so if you've already entered, just stay close to your phone and wait for WATCHMEN updates.


In theaters Watchmen March 6, 2009

WATCHMEN

Coming soon! March 6, 2009

Are you ready?

Watch the Official Trailer:


Official Site:
Watchmen the Movie

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Watchmen Soundtrack


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Watchmen Screenings

Movie Review ~ He's Just Not That Into You

The special press screening to He's Just Not That Into You was packed with mostly college sorority girls to fill the extra seats, but some men braved the rain to come along too. Directed by Ken Kwapis, the movie is a great chick movie that has enough masculinity that even a guy would enjoy. It reminded me of Love Actually, one of my favorites.

Neil, Ben Affleck, really is a good guy when he comes through for Beth, Jennifer Aniston. And you will be cheering for Gigi, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Alex, Justin Long, to end up together.

He's Just Not That Into You in theaters February 6, 2009

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I'm spreading the word! Jeffrey Dean Morgan fans can join in to celebrate his birthday on April 21, 2009. Check out Donate JDM to see how!
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This cause is especially dear to me because we rescued our dog Zach from our local SPCA.
Check out Zach's Blog

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Last Night my friend and I went to another taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. My friend heard that one of Jimmy's guests was going to be Brendan Fraser so I was happy to come along when she got tickets. He had great seats again, closer to the band.

Brendan was funny and goofy. He's very tall in person. I've seen many of his films through out his career and last night he was there to talk about his new film Ink Heart which opens today Friday, January 23, 2009.

Watch Watch Brendan's Interview

The second guest was Jonathan Goodwin. Jonathan has a new show on the Discovery Channel, One Way Out, which premieres on Monday, January 26th. Jonathan did a Houdini like stunt. While tied up in a straight jacket, hanging upside down, and his head submerged in a big plastic bin of water, he had to escape. While he held his breath they timed how long it took him to get free. Needless to say, we held our breath too while he contorted and wiggled to free himself from the straight jacket!

Watch Jonathan's Interview
Watch Jonathan's escape

After the stunt we were escorted out of the main studio and into the lobby of the building where the musical guest, Blake Shelton and his band, had their instruments set up on a small stage. We all gathered around while they preformed two songs. It was a nice mini concert.



Ink Heart in theaters today January 23, 2009

81st Oscar Nominations

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire for 10 Oscar nominations!

Picture - Slumdog Millionaire
Director - Danny Boyle
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Simon Beaufoy
Cinematography- Anthony Dod Mantle
Film Editing - Chris Dickens
Music Score - A.R. Rahman
Music (Song) 2 nominations! - "Jai Ho"Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar & "O Saya"Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Sound Editing: Tom Sayers
Sound Mixing: Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

To watch the announcement: Oscar Announcement

To see the full list of nominees: Oscar Nominees

Mark it on your calendar to watch the Oscars on Sunday, February 22, 2009!

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Yesterday's adventure was the taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His guests were Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire and a comedian, Greg Proops. Yes, I'm managing to see everyone from my favorite movie. Dev Patel was adorable, I still don't think he knows what hit him.

Apparently, they tape two shows on Thursdays, the taping we saw was the 5 pm show, which will be aired tonight, Friday. We had great seats, second row, center. Craig would stand very close to the audience, at times he'd be just 4 feet away. He was extremely funny, he talked to us quite a bit and picked on some audience members during the break and when the commercial break was over he would carry it over into the segment.

Craig Ferguson


Slumdog Millionaire in theaters now


Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Wins All Four Golden Globes!

Congratulations to Danny Boyle, cast, and crew of Slumdog Millionaire for winning Golden Globes in all the categories they were nominated for!

Best Motion Picture - Drama - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director - Motion Picture - Danny Boyle
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture - Simon Beaufoy
Best Original Score - Motion Picture - A. R. Rahman

Watch the interview with the Danny Boyle, cast, and crew.
Interview

For the full list of winners:
Nominations and Winners

The 66th Annual Golden Globes

The 66th Annual Golden Globes are tonight!

Good luck to all the nominees!

Here's my picks for the winners:

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Burn After Reading

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Dustin Hoffman in Last Chance Harvey

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Viola Davis in Doubt

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Ralph Fiennes in The Duchess

Best Animated Feature Film
Wall-E

Best Director - Motion Picture
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Slumdog Millionaire by Simon Beaufoy

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Slumdog Millionaire Composed by A. R. Rahman

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"The Wrestler" The Music & Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Best Television Series - Drama
House

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Sally Field in Brothers & Sisters

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Hugh Laurie in House

Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Weeds

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Debra Messing in The Starter Wife

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother


For the full list of nominees:
Golden Globes

Vote for Michael Fassbender!

Michael has made the list for the BAFTA ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD!

Cast your vote now to support Michael:
Vote for Michael!

Also check out Michael's Bio and the video BAFTA has posted:
Michael's Page

Movie Review ~ The Wrestler

I really didn't have a desire to see The Wrestler, I had no interest in a film about professional wrestling, but went only because of a special screening with Marisa Tomei with a Q&A following the film. I've always loved her performances in films.

Although I don't care for Mickey Rourke, he did a fantastic job, the movie is very sad and bloody, I had to turn away during the fights. Marisa was terrific, but wanted to see her character more. She plays a stripper, Cassidy, who Mickey, Randy the Ram, is in love with.

During the Q&A Marisa spoke about preparing for the role and working with Mickey. Marisa went to strip bars, met with strippers, and took pole dancing classes. Marisa is incredible shape! She said it was great working with Mickey, they has similar processes preparing for a role, they both don't like to rehearse.

The Wrestler in theaters January 9, 2009

Happy Birthday Maree!

We started the night with seeing the taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live and then off we went to dinner at Shin.

We had the best time, Simon Shin gave us VIP service!
He bought Maree a drink, a Martini at dinner, then after dinner we sang Happy Birthday to her when they brought her a special dessert with a candle to blow out.

Simon came to the table to check on us often.
Maree thanked him for the Martini and complimented him on his wonderful restaurant.

Maree and Me

Maree almost didn't put down her present in order to take this picture!

The girls: Annette, Maree, and Lynnette

Barbara, Isaac, and Ray


Here's the link to Shin:
Shin

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Last Night, January 7th, my friends and I went to the taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The Studio was a lot smaller than The Tonight Show with Jay Leno studio but larger than The Late Show with Craig Ferguson. We were happy with our seats, we weren't seated in the front, a straight view of Jimmy and the guests, but like I said the studio was small so there wasn't a bad seat in the studio.

We had the extra treat of seeing Anne Hathaway, who is the guest for tonight, Thursday January 8th, but they taped is last night, kind of like what they do for Craig Ferguson.
It was especially nice to see Anne since she acted opposite James McAvoy in Becoming Jane, my most favorite James McAvoy movie. After Jimmy finished the interview he changed his tie and talked to people on the stage.

Once the real show taping finally began Jimmy performed his monologue and then his Aunt and his Uncle Sal were there, his Aunt was a hoot, poor thing, well maybe, poor Jimmy, he did different pranks to see how fast it would take for her to get mad. It was never long, how Uncle Sal was married to her is unbelievable!

Ron Howard was the first guest, he was cool, just a regular guy. It's still hard to believe Opie is a major director now. His stories of how he includes his family in his movies were great to hear, but his poor dad, always cut from the movies!

Then the highlight of the night, Jeffrey Dean Morgan! All I can say is, he looked really HOT! He saw us in the audience waving madly at him, his face lit up. He was there to promote Grey's Anatomy, but Jimmy showed a picture of him as the Comedian in Watchmen we cheered loudly, his smiled was even bigger. Then he talked about Comic Con, of course we cheered even louder.
Jeffrey's head popped up and pointed, he said something like "You were there!"
He waved at us again at the end of the interview, of course we were thrilled! When he was off camera and getting ready to leave he shook every one's hand on the stage, he turned to the audience and waved goodbye again!

Sorry no pictures, all cameras and camera phones had to be checked at the door or left in our cars.

Here's the link to watch the episode, (yes the girls you hear cheering loudly when Jeffrey is on stage are us):

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Or you can see just Jeffrey's interview here (thanks to my friends at The School of Jeffrey Dean Morgan):

The School of Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Michael Fassbender Online - Barretstown Birthday Charity

My friends at Michael Fassbender Online (MFO) are hosting a Fundraiser in honor of Michael's Birthday on April 2nd.

MFO - Barretstown Birthday Charity - please see HERE

Here's the link to MFO: Michael Fassbender Online

Michael and Annette at the opening of Hunger at the Nuart

Movie Review ~ Marley & Me

If you've had a dog, you would love Marley & Me. And even if you don't, you'll love it. It was nice to see Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson in something other than the typical romantic comedy.

As we drove home, we had said, at least Zach, our two year old Pitbull, has grown out of the chewing stage. In my bedroom I found a chewed up left flip-flop, now I have three right flip-flops. Zach had guilt written all over his face, but I had to sit and pet him for at least five minutes.

Don't forget to bring tissues.

Marley & Me in theaters now

Movie Review ~ Grand Torino

Grand Torino is classic Clint Eastwood. Even though Walt, Clint Eastwood, is a grumpy old bigot who uses every racial slur that exists, you grow to love the old bastard. He redeems himself in the end, resulting in a sad ending that he wouldn't have any other way.

Walt reminds me of the men the greatest generation this country has ever produced who were too often misunderstood. They are and were the men I looked up to the most, Arthur Thur, Howard Raymo, and John Somerville when I was growning up.

Grand Torino in theaters December 12, 2008