So what?
My wife is my year-round valentine - and she knows it!
New Movies Opening This Weekend:
A Good Day to Die Hard Obnoxious. Dull. Pointless. Tapped out. Such are the adjectives flying from the pens of severely underwhelmed critics for this fifth entry in the series. But you know it looked bad, so there's no surprise there. Bruce is back - and 55! - in Moscow, where he meets up with his son... Oh, who cares? This one looks DOA. Supposedly the story ends up in Chernobyl, though. Which provides a good opportunity to recommend last year's The Chernobyl Diaries.
Safe Haven Will we ever be rid of Nicholas Sparks? Julianne Hough steps up to the plate as a troubled young woman who arrives in - where else? - North Carolina. Because it's a Sparks movie (he co-scripted), you know she has a PG-13 tumultuous past. Because it's a Sparks movie, you know she'll find romance in a hunky widower (Josh Duhamel). Lasse Halstrom, who did a nice job with the author's Dear John, directs; Cobie Smulders co-stars. Critics don't like it, but that's par for this author's oeuvre.
Beautiful Creatures Someone wants in on the Twilight/YA-fantasy market. Adapted from the successful series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, (both of whom will be at the Savannah Book Festival), the film takes place in a small South Carolina town and concerns a bookish boy and the mysterious new girl in town (played by director Jane Campion's daughter, Alice Englert). Cue a lot of supernatural stuff. Academy favorites Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, and Viola Davis all have meaty (read: hammy) supporting parts. Could be fun. Directed and scripted by long-time screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (The Bridges of Madison County, The Mirror Has Two Faces).
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So why is today known as Valentine's Day? Well, here's the legend:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
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| Said to be the first image of St. Valentine - a woodblock print from the Nuremberg Chronicles, a world history/paraphrase of the Bible which follows human history as it is unfolds in the Bible |
Images courtesy of:
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Beautiful-Creatures_2.jpg
http://www.greenteadesign.com/thedesigntree/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/02-valentinus-woodblock-print.jpg
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