Hi folks!
Today I went to Hooters to watch the Indianapolis Colts play football. (I bet that sentence has not appeared on this site before.) Yes, there is a Hooter's in Manhattan. How it stays open I do not know, but they have a lot of TVs so you an watch the games in relative comfort.
Then I met up with the Punk (who says to say "Hello") and we went to see new David Cronenberg film A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. I had a feeling it could be good, and I am a big fan of Maria Bello. Solid acting, a great character turn by William Hurt, and an interesting basic story line were the positives.
But there were too many flaws for me to really recommend the film as a whole. It had a really weird mixture of realism and cardboard stock action stuff. An urge to explore the depth of its ideas did battle with an equal and opposite urge to oversimplify.
However, I can come away knowing I've seen more of Maria Bello than ever before.