Movie review: Brokeback Mountain

Here's one from Bummerman.

Movie Reviews: King Kong

Here's one from Bummerman. (Scroll down from Brokeback Mountain.)

Here's one from Walaka.

Event notice: New Year's Eve Movies!

The All-Star, All-Night New Year's Eve White-Wall Spectration Spectacular is a go!

The short of it: Big-screen movies from 8:00 pm to 8:00 am, with a break for ringing in the new year!

The long of it: You should have a .pdf invitation in your e-mailbox already!

From Whey-over-there-lona

Here I am, but as (one of?) the European contributors, my job will be to cover the ...and even more!/review/otherwise interact socially department. To kick it off, here's an Otherwise Socially Interactive question for da Etcescadrille:

What was the Best/Worst film you saw this year? Of course, this is the it's not just for moovies anymore blog, so I fully expect you to make up your own categories, like the Best Film I Hated or the Give Me Back My Money! film of the year, but cleverer.

My submissions, though keep in mind my memory is crap and I have only a vague idea of what I saw this year:

• Least Irritating So Far: This goes to The Island and hits two irritants at once; not only was this the least irritating Michael Bay film, it was also the least irritating Scarlett Johansson performance I've seen.
• Awfully Glad I'm Human: Thanks to The March of the Penguins for reminding me how good I have it.

What say you?

Here's Jon(nie)!

With all the news that's fit to print from the Willamette Valley and beyond. Thanks for the invite. Couldn't pass that one up now, could I?

Joining Up

As a person with a pre-existing blog, when I accepted the invitation, I got evil messages about cookie and java security settings. And then the acceptance process froze. But, lo and behold, here I am. I guess it was just meaningless PC gibberish... like when Windows tells me I have *critical* updates. Hah.

Now I guess I have to post a link to this blog in mine other.

Links galore

So, I posted some links over in the sidebar -- please send me any others you think would be good to have up there for one-stop shopping excitement!

Yippee!

Movies, and parties, and more--oh my!

Mel has entered the building

Hi Walter and other [bloggers],

Alright, this is fun.....now what?

Mel

Here we go...

So, here's an experiment: let's see if we can get a team blog going. Even as some of us have established individual blogs that are still looking for unique identities, positionings, and intentions, let's explore the blogosphere as a communal experience as well as a personal one.

I'll keep adding folks as this goes on and we'll see what happens here.

Excelsior!

Bound and determined to drag everyone into the blogosphere!

[Actually posted December 2005]
Now that I am sort-of sliding into break, I have all kinds of projects to follow up on. One of them is getting this group blog out for its first tentative steps. I originally started HKC to keep "the moovie group" in contact; as I have implied in some recent posts, I am going to remodel HKC and chnage the focus a bit. But I still want a place for all the social announcements - and even more!

So, here's the deal: I am sending out invitations to anyone who has ever posted in our little blogosphere, inviting them to become members of this blog. If you have been a longtime lurker and want to come out of the blog-closet to join this blog, let me know. The more the merrier.

As a member, you will be able to post your very own entries, rather than just comment on existing posts. Guaranteed front-page, above-the-fold exposure. This way, everyone can publicize, invite, review, notify, and otherwise interact socially.

If you have a blogger identity already, the invitation acceptance is a snap: merely a click or two with a mouse. If you haven't a blogger identity, it will take you a minute or so to create one (it looks like you are starting your own blog, but don't worry, you don't have to do anything with it). In either case, it starts with an email from me.

So, be on the lookout for you inviation, and excuse the dust while we pretty this place up.
(I've cheated this entry so it will stay pinned to the top; take a look below for newer stuff.)