My Movie Challenge

The Graduate (1967): For a woman who loves Simon & Garfunkel as much as the wife does, it was stunning to hear her tell me she hadn’t seen this movie all the way through. “yeah, there is the great music, the guy gets hit on by the mom and it’s kinda creepy and depressing” was […]

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My Childhood, Bastardized

This one is going to be rather simple. I love board games as a kid. Actually, screw that, I still love board games. Friends and I still get together now and then to play Trivial Pursuit or Scattergories or some kind of game that pairs well with drinking. My two favorite board games are Clue […]

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My Movie Challenge

Duck Soup (1933): This is up there with All About Eve as an early contender for Most Pleasant Surprise movie in the challenge list. Not sure how this one escaped me, but I didn’t know it was a Marx Brothers film, so just seeing the name Duck Soup on the list was a little eye-rolling. […]

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My Nervous Excitement

The annual tradition begins once again: the hunt by my beloved UK Wildcats for that 8th national title. There are some scary names potentially in the path of my boys so here’s to hoping this batch of young fellas can handle it. It’ll be a nerve-wracking few weeks, but I’ll wear my shirts proudly and […]

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My Movie Challenge

Part of the wife and I’s movie challenge involves a pretty good number of westerns, something we aren’t super big on. Sure, we like Unforgiven and the like, but we’re going to have to bang through some desert chatter and John Ford cinematography if we expect to get through the list. Stagecoach (1939): Our first […]

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Friday Funnies

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When Chevy Chase movies were not on constant repeat in the Campbell household growing up, nothing brought a hearty chuckle to our movie-watching experiences like The Naked Gun. Holy crap, just rewatching these clips reminds me of the specific gags that made my dad laugh. Not surprising, it was the little things like Frank always […]

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