![]() ![]() Baylor receives most of his calls with a flippant attitude, catering toward drug users and arrogant businessmen too embarrassed to admit that they were robbed by a prostitute. Gyllenhaal stars in “The Guilty” as Joe Baylor, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who works as a 911 call center operator while awaiting trial for an unknown charge. 1, I realized I was willing to cut corners for one of my most admired actors, who I had not seen in a film since “Spider-Man: Far from Home.” Suddenly, the immense amount of work I was assigned for the week became minuscule in priority as I managed to reserve an extra hour-and-a-half slot to watch “The Guilty.” However, when I heard about Jake Gyllenhaal’s new thriller that came out on Oct. Recently, I’ve had time for practically none, which is a shame considering the long list of much-anticipated Netflix releases due for October. No guilt.There used to be a time when I was able to watch two movies a week. I am going to dance more, sing more, and write more. ![]() The reality is all the ways we express ourselves contribute to “our work”. ![]() PS: I have been neglecting writing for pleasure, this blog & my ever-under-construction book, even before coronavirus in some misguided attempt to “focus seriously on work”. Nope.ĭance because everyday above ground is a good day. “Dance like no ones looking” implies there is something to be ashamed of. I’m a lousy dancer and a lousy singer and it doesn’t interfere with my fun one bit. I know I am forever “ that white girl” as much as want to be a Fly Girl, and I don’t care. Watching dance movies is all about pleasure. I will watch any and all dance movies from old classics like White Christmas and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers to the “Honey” series (4 total) and the Step up franchise (6 movies!) The Washington Post had an article about dance movies with an apologetic title of “Best Bad Dance Movies”. No such thing in my book. In between the expected foreign movies and obscure B&W content on the Criterion Channel, lives a movie genre that truly sustains me, rejuvenates me and gives me hope. We are not big TV watching people over here at Bougie Central (didnt even own a TV for 20 years or so), but movies are a bit of an obsession. There are whole categories of hashtags devoted to #CovidBaking, #CovidCrafting, #CovidPuzzles, coloring, yoga, cooking, work from home (which is now WFH), and managing children.Īnd of course wine, wine, and more craft cocktails/fancy beer than is probably healthy. Who green-lighted this mess? Wait, it was that Snakes on a Plane guy wasn’t it?Ĭoping with stress (#CovidCoping) has become a sub-genre of advertising, marketing, blogging and every other medium. Can it?Īnd empty store shelves, the hoarding of toilet paper, pandemic-deniers refusing to mask, and businesses closing and the economy collapsing … totally unrealistic. Hang on, did they also close post offices and take away mail boxes to keep people from voting? That can’t be a thing. ![]() Was there really a firenado *and* an in-land hurricane? Thousands and thousands of people marching in the streets during a pandemic? Paramilitary guys with American flags stapled to sticks that they then used as weapons against counter-protesters? That you have a hard time remember all the plot points the next day because – was I drunk?!? The litany of events we have experienced in that short amount of time, both domestic and world-wide, resembles a ludicrously bad disaster movie plot.Ī late-nite, after the bars have closed, watch it in the dark while eating cold cereal out of the box kind of movie. It’s been 159 days since my family started quarantine. ![]()
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