So I don't normally talk much about current events here, but sometimes they intrude themselves against my wishes. That is very much the case here. Typically my yearly post would be an assortment of movies that I had tickets to and a few that I was considering buying. However, this year the post is an empty list, because the Coronavirus Pandemic has ( Read more... )

It will soon be time once again for the Cleveland International Film Festival. M and I bought some tickets last night, and highlighted some others that we may opt to see later. Our selections are heavily weighted toward the first weekend of the festival, which is solely a matter of what happened to look interesting. Let's start with the nine total ( Read more... )

I had another busy weekend. If the last weekend series has shown me anything, it is that I do not have a boring life.

1. On Friday night, The Mountain Goats had their second consecutive sold out show at the Beachland Ballroom after not appearing in this city for many, many years. As with their prior appearance in 2016, they touched the new album ( Read more... )

So Tulip has now been to the vet four times in the last three months. The first time was back in January as she had a bad limp that wasn't getting better.

First she got some anti-inflammatories and an order of reduced exercise, which means she hasn't been to day care this year except for being boarded for California. Her knee didn't get ( Read more... )

Well, that was a busy weekend. Let's recap.

1. Baseball:

Friday was the home opener, which I elaborated upon at length yesterday.

2. Film:

On Saturday I had my first two movies of the Cleveland International Film Festival.

The King attempted to use Elvis's Rolls Royce as a metaphor for the decline of America. This provided an excuse to show a ( Read more... )

Due to several schedule conflicts of longstanding nature, I have only purchased tickets to four movies for this year's Cleveland International Film Festival. There's a chance that I'll purchase some more, particularly for the first Saturday, or a one off on the Monday or Tuesday, but for the moment this is all I have purchased. I've also included ( Read more... )

I have purchased tickets to eleven movies for this year's Cleveland International Film Festival. M will join me for four of them; the other seven I'm seeing solo. Here's the list.

Thursday, March 30
24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters @ 9:30pm. A documentary about the art of film posters. This is showing off-site at the Cleveland Cinematheque.

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I have been attending and writing about the Indians Home Opener for many years, and attending it for even longer. This year's was nothing particularly special in the big scheme of things. Oh sure, it got postponed one day in the most inept Indians-like way possible (I was already on the train downtown when I found out), but fortunately I was able ( Read more... )

This year is the 40th annual Cleveland International Film Festival. The first movie I ever saw at the CIFF was Only the Strong Survive, a documentary about Stax Studios that I saw in 2003 at the 27th CIFF. After that I did not go again until 2006, when I saw 10 films at the 30th CIFF. I've gone every subsequent year. Many of the 109 total movies I' ( Read more... )

I have a ton of overlapping conflicts with this year's Cleveland International Film Festival including three different concerts so I won't make it to as many movies as I did last year, but I still managed to buy tickets to ten different films. Despite my buying them the week beforehand I was able to get all of these as actual tickets instead on ( Read more... )