tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51444586257424513712024-03-13T10:39:05.888-04:00Insight into EntertainmentJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.comBlogger899125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-74830074625162563842012-04-10T07:00:00.001-04:002012-04-10T07:00:19.713-04:00Insight into Entertainment has MOVEDThis will be the last post on INSIGHT INTO ENTERTAINMENT. From now on, you can find my musings and optimistic comments on movies over at REEL INSIGHTJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-49739157118358829822012-04-09T14:12:00.000-04:002012-04-09T14:12:00.260-04:00900th Post: Thanks for playingI want to say thank you so much to all the people who play the mashup game. I hope you'll continue to play over at Reel Insight. Here is the final leaderboard after the big push to get enough posts.
Ryan - 9
SDG - 6
Keith - 3
Rachel - 3
Andrew - 2
Red - 1
Dave - 1
Dylan -1
Congratulations to Ryan for coming out on top. And thanks again to everyone for playing.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-27863088439243724232012-04-09T09:35:00.004-04:002012-04-09T21:34:08.498-04:00My Top 10: #1 Sense and SensibilityOops - I had written this out earlier, but wanted to look at it in Word and then deleted it. I thought I'd deleted the post and would set it up tonight, but alas, my attention closing out the blog has been waning. But here you go.
Sense and Sensibility has been my favorite movie for nearly a decade (I'm sure a future post will give you all my past favorite movies). I would sayJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-55551540543612191772012-04-08T15:09:00.002-04:002012-04-08T15:09:01.347-04:00My Top 10: #2 Out of AfricaMy parents were big watchers of Masterpiece Theater on PBS when I was a kid. It came on just as I went to bed, so the intro music and scenes are a very big part of what it meant to be an adult in my little kid eyes. My parents swear that Out of Africa wasn't something that Masterpiece would have shown - it is an American big budget film not of the indie or British persuasion. &Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-10260332752499842002012-04-07T20:53:00.000-04:002012-04-07T20:53:38.544-04:00My Top 10 #3: Shawshank RedemptionThe Shawshank Redemption shares the top spot on the IMDB top 250 with The Godfather, so I know I'm not alone in loving this movie. I remember the year it came out, watching the Oscars and wondering whether this odd movie about a Chinese prison could possibly be good. Yes, the red text/poster, a buttoned up Tim Robbins on the poster, and the strange word Shawshank made me Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-74816205257126684382012-04-06T15:23:00.001-04:002012-04-06T15:23:00.140-04:00My Top 10: #4 Wall-EI'm kind of surprised this is the only animated film in my top 10, but you can't argue with the numbers. Wall*E's environmental message definitely speaks to me, but it's really how amazing the character of Wall*E is with his love for Eve that melts my heart every time I watch him save humanity.
Wall*E is left behind on Earth after the humans have destroyed it and left it covered in garbageJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-23958192781066418862012-04-05T21:28:00.001-04:002012-04-05T21:28:00.131-04:00My Top 10: #5 Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeI like all of the Indiana Jones movies, but this one is my favorite. I like movies/books that take a historical concept in and impose a fictional story over it. And this one follows our dear Indiana (who I want to be when I grow up, if I can't be Rachel) and imposes 2 historical concepts with our favorite characters - the mythology of the Holy Grail and the historical facts of WWII.
Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-62016012372671543142012-04-04T15:29:00.002-04:002012-04-04T15:29:00.144-04:00My Top 10: #6 Gone with the WindI owned this movie on videotape as a kid - it was actually on two Betamax cassettes that my parents taped off TV. Because they couldn't make it fit on one tape (remember having to switch from SP to LP?) there are a few minutes in the middle of the film that always seem unfamiliar to me when I watch it now on DVD or even on television. I read the book in high school at least 10 times Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-6603505122151828282012-04-03T15:31:00.001-04:002012-04-03T15:31:00.220-04:00My Top 10: #7 When Harry Met SallyWhenever I'm making a top 10 list, I try to make sure that movies for or about women are represented. It's easy to take some of the biggest movies of all time and just arrange them as your favorites. However, most of those movies are either about very general issues, or star men. For me, the one that always comes to the top of my list of movies I wouldn't leave the country Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-13393433719251952622012-04-03T08:49:00.000-04:002012-04-03T08:49:01.546-04:00Welcome to Reel Insight
As I hope you've guessed by now, Rachel and I have decided to merge our blogging efforts. We have started a new blog at Reel Insight that we'll be running together as we keep the podcast going and stop posting new stuff on our individual sites. Thank you so much to all the people who have helped make this blog so much fun to do that I want to keep doing it. Today is Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-4514969367597837592012-04-02T15:37:00.003-04:002012-04-02T15:37:00.383-04:00My Top 10: #8 The Princess Bride
I'm kind of surprised that two movies with Billy Crystal ended up in my top 10, but I'm a child of the '80s, what can I do? This is the first one, you'll have to wait to see the next one in a few days.
Also, I'm not sure there's another movie on this list I've seen as many times as The Princess Bride (possibly my #1, but that's about it). Is it even possible to give a Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-41990713692276214582012-04-02T07:42:00.000-04:002012-04-02T07:42:00.628-04:00My career in filmThere have been a lot of photos on facebook of people describing their jobs - how they see themselves, how others see them, how parents see them. Since I think in terms of movies, I wanted to try to give you a sense of my career path in film/TV - real and imagined.
I finished college more than a decade ago - coincidentally when A Beautiful Mind was being filmed. The dorm in the Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-16559752017718917132012-04-01T18:52:00.000-04:002012-04-01T18:52:00.719-04:00Movie Mashup 17New Clue: Dr. Alex Cross tries to find a kidnapped young woman because with great power comes great responsibility.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck!Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-51592086396392608102012-04-01T15:39:00.001-04:002012-04-01T15:39:00.843-04:00My Top 10:#9 50 First DatesEven I find it strange that an Adam Sandler movie made it into my top 10, but in the 8 years since I first saw it on DVD, I've probably seen all or part of it more than 50 times. It's one I've taken on trips that almost always gets watched. The concept of this movie really shouldn't work - a womanizing veterinarian in Hawaii falls for a woman with no short term memory.  Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-10460661331509487232012-03-31T18:24:00.005-04:002012-03-31T18:24:00.206-04:00Movie Mashup 16
New Clue: An African bushman finds a Coke and tries to reform an alcoholic country singer with a broken leg.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck!Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-72824346993869098132012-03-31T14:40:00.000-04:002012-03-31T14:40:00.539-04:00My Top 10: #10 Galaxy QuestOne quality all of my top 10 films share is their rewatchability. That's a particular feat that many films, despite their greatness, fail to achieve. Galaxy Quest combines a few of my favorite elements of entertainment - science fiction and self-referential comedy. The main characters are all formerly famous actors from a TV series from the 1970s that is a spoof of the original Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-82445302076601956712012-03-30T15:44:00.001-04:002012-03-30T15:44:00.158-04:00My Top Movies: # 11-20In an effort to get to 900 posts by my 5th Blogoversary, I'm going to countdown my Top 10 Movies, but before we get to my Top 10 Countdown, I thought I'd show you the films that didn't quite make the list. I have never claimed to have actual good taste in films. I know what I like and I tend to watch them a lot. I own all of these movies and have rewatched them at least once in Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-14048292529510112742012-03-30T08:56:00.004-04:002012-03-30T08:56:00.408-04:00Movie Mashup 15
New Clue: An alien saves a single human just before Earth's destruction and they travel the universe using the "historical documents" from a 1970s sci-fi TV show and defeat a great enemy.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-40547232843259318992012-03-29T21:55:00.000-04:002012-03-29T21:55:00.145-04:00Movie Mashup 14New Clue: A young man finds out he's an alien being hunted in a hotel where we meet a bellhop who finds people murdered and plays games of chance for fingers.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck!Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-62624651917000054552012-03-29T18:11:00.000-04:002012-03-29T18:11:34.630-04:002012 March Madness Movie Style!!!You know I love to play games with movies - I might stink at most of them (*cough Last Lamb Standing), but that doesn't mean I don't like to try. I've entered this one every year and usually do pretty well. Either way, I think you should definitely go to MAN I LOVE FILMS to download your bracket and be sure to enter. Here are the rules and prizes:
The rules:
1. For each Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-89361417169215128532012-03-28T21:40:00.005-04:002012-03-28T21:40:00.388-04:00Movie Mashup 13New Clue: A Spaniard fights hard for his right to die while attempting to pull of a mysterious bank heist without getting caught.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck!Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-30228101612456489752012-03-27T21:37:00.001-04:002012-03-27T21:37:00.967-04:00Movie Mashup 12New Clue: An immigrant woman is going blind, but escapes by watching musicals in an underground world controlled by people who put you to sleep.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck!Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-59733575409547236132012-03-27T07:08:00.000-04:002012-03-27T07:08:00.073-04:00New Release: 21 Jump StreetI had no idea what to expect seeing this movie - the trailers seemed mixed. It could either have been really funny or they could have shown all the funny stuff in the trailer. Thankfully, they stuck to the first 15 or so minutes of humor for the trailer and left another 90 minutes of dick and balls jokes, many of which were really really funny.
I expected it to be a really male Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-26413685719581326732012-03-26T10:02:00.000-04:002012-03-26T10:02:00.383-04:00Reel Insight Episode 76: Woody HarrelsonI know, you can't believe we're finally covering Woody. We've been holding off knowing what a big movie star he is. Okay, that was sarcastic, but we really did have a great time covering his movies - there were a lot more that we could have talked about too. In addition to Woody's career, we discuss The Lorax, Rio, and Like Crazy (starring our future Star of the Week Anton Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144458625742451371.post-271577365455121032012-03-26T09:27:00.008-04:002012-03-26T09:27:00.557-04:00Movie Mashup 11
New Clue: Two elderly neighbors continue their feud despite having been part of a government mind control experiment that had bizarre consequences and ultimately didn't work.
The goal is to figure out the two movies that overlap in some words creating a new movie described by the clue. Leave your answer in the comments. Good luck! Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.com5