Little slow withh this update due to technical difficulties, but an update is an update.

Talk Cinema is once again at the Landmark Edina Cinema today, Saturday, April  4th. As usual a discussion will be held after the screening and coffee is provided free of chrge. Bagels are also available to puurchase and the concession stand will be open for those who want popcorn or Diet Coke with their 10am movie. Students should try and make the trip, as the $5 student ticket price for films that won’t be released for weeks/months is the best deal in the Twin Cities.

As for the film being shown, it won’t be released for several months, so today’s screening will be a bit of a coup for those in attendance. If you want to keep the mystery, stop reading now, otherwise, a trailer for the film is hidden after the break for those who like to rin the surprise.

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It isn’t often that I struggle to think of an adequate and fitting intro for one of my reviews. I take a lot of pride in trying to find interesting, odd and hopefully unique ways of introducing a reader to the review I am writing. Now sure, sometime I will have the occasional beef with writer’s block but it has yet to result in anything more then a rather minor skirmish with frustration. Often times it even allows me to look at my review from a slightly altered perspective, and that is all that I need to connect with the proper delivery system. But as I write this review I am sitting here, humbly before you, with nothing to offer. Not even a single solitary rambling take that inexplicably turns into a bridge for my review.

Sure, I could tell you about how I went to watch The Strangers this evening, and rather then enjoying the film, I found the most entertaining moment of the entire 90 minutes was when I watched Derek Jeter making a drunken fool out of himself in the theater lobby. I could tell you about that, but since last week’s intro was about my less then eloquent brush with Eddie Izzard it would feel hopelessly like a retread of my previous intro. Kind of like how it felt watching The Strangers.

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