How many times have you seen a movie or TV show and said "I'd love to go there!" or "Hey, cool, I was there!"? Movies can both inspire travel dreams and bring back memories. What are your favorites -- old and new?
Fort Worth's Coyote Drive-In in 'Nostalgia Front & Center in Some U.S. Museums & Eateries'
Louis Kaplan is channeling his childhood. While a youngster, he collected baseball cards which he stored in boxes and treasured as souvenirs of the USA's favorite pastime. Decades later, he’s reliving that time while visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, upstate New York. Opportunities to recapture memories from the past are of course not limited to baseball, nor to New York. From Coca-Cola to cars, movies to museums, chapters of times gone by await…
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The Oscars take over Hollywood this Sunday and The World on Wheels today. Tim rates the Best Picture nominees for us today with Who Needs Oscar When You Have Tim?
Now in our blog: a meditation on Eat, Pray, Love.
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You won't see much of Peru in the multiple-award-winning Undertow... but on a human level, it's one of the best fílms I've seen in a long time. And, of course, I had to post about it.
Thanks re: The Tourist, Mr. Scribe!
Jose, I had trouble finding this at first, because I thought the link below was for the movie's website. But I soon found it on this website's home page. Yours is the first review I've read that makes a credible case for The Tourist without minimizing the vapidity of Jolie, not to mention the script. Well done.
Seen "The Tourist" yet? Check out my take on Venice, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the film Roger Ebert called "absurd."