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Summer Flick Triple Play
Fright Night - a re-imagining of the 1985 horror classic were teenaged Charley Brewster discovers his new neighbor Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood.Colin Ferrel smolders as Dracula and David Tennent reinvents Peter Vincent into a snarling, shirtless goth. My initial impression of this new reincarnation of Fright Night can be summed up in one word – yum. In theaters August 19.
One Day – How did I miss the novel written by David Nichols? It will be added to my Kindle collection tonight. As per the website: After one day together – July 15th, 1988, their college graduation – Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of Across the Universe) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives.
I have an eerily personal synchronicity with this movie. I am looking forward to reading the novel and watching this movie. In theaters August 19th – a day before my birthday 
Another Earth. Opened in theaters July 22nd. What would you do if you met another you?
“Another Earth”, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.
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I never saw the original, but I remember when it came out.
A few signs that one is getting old; movies that you went to see in the theater are being remade and/or being shown on TCM, the music you danced to at your prom is being played on “classic rock” stations, the “old junker” you drove in high school is now a “valuable antique”, and, lastly, you actually experienced some of the events being taught in the history books.