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Enter 2013 With Biff Bam Pop’s Steampunk Granny
When people get to know me, they find out that I have several interests that are in sharp contrast to the fact that I’m a grandmother of nine. Besides writing paranormal stories and going on ghost hunts, I also like to dress up in Victorian Clothing. The ghost hunting comes natural, I seem to attract spirits who for some reason or another refuse to cross over.
The writing, I’m a born story teller, but my involvement with Steampunk was due to my oldest granddaughter. I was still working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and my granddaughter was attending Moore College of Art and Design to learn about fashion design. Allie, who started out wearing dark Goth clothing in her first year at Moore, was heavily into Victorian fashions by her senior year. One day she stopped by the museum and asked me to accompany her to an event. “Sure, what should I wear?” I asked thinking dress slacks or the basic black dress. “No, granny, I’ll dress you,” she replied. I was somewhat confused and maybe a little wary, but I went to her house after work and she showed me this beautiful Victorian skirt, blouse and bonnet. “Who’s that for?” I asked. Find out after the jump.
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The Dark Knight Rises To The Top – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Wrap-Up Report, Weekend of July 20th, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
In light of the horrific incident in Colorado Thursday night/Friday morning, Warner Brothers is refraining from reporting the weekend box office numbers for The Dark Knight Rises until Monday. However, estimates have come through via Deadline.com which we are going to post below. For this week, Biff Bam Pop is going to not spend any time even attempting any sort of box office analysis. It’s just not right. Instead, you can see the numbers below. And if there’s anything I can say about the events in Colorado, it’s simply this: don’t let the actions of a lunatic hurt anybody else. Go to the movies. Remember the folks whose lives were lost, but keep living your own.
Here were our predictions:
1) The Dark Knight Rises – $200.5 million
2) Ice Age: Continental Drift – $22 million
3) The Amazing Spider-Man – $18 million
4) Ted – $13 million
5) Magic Mike – $7 million
Here are the estimates (things may change come Monday):
1) The Dark Knight Rises – $161.1 million
2) Ice Age: Continental Drift – $20.2 million
3) The Amazing Spider-Man – $10.7 million
4) Ted – $10.2 million
5) Brave – $5.9 million
Saturday At The Movies: The Dark Knight Rises
Finally.
Finally we have a trilogy that not only maintains the same director for all its iterations, but that also maintains and exceeds the quality of each subsequent film.
Congrats, Christopher Nolan. For this fan, The Dark Knight Rises is my favourite entry in your Dark Knight trilogy.
Find out why I feel this way after the jump.
The Dark Knight Rises At Movie Theatres – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Predictions, Weekend of July 20th, 2012
The big question this weekend isn’t “will The Dark Knight Rises top the box office?” No, the only question worth asking is simply, “how much money will The Dark Knight Rises make this weekend?” Find out our prediction after the jump!
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The Dark Knight Rises Pregame: The Dark Knight Revisited
The Dark Knight Movie Poster
I have been taken to task recently over my opinions about the film The Dark Knight. Apparently I shocked co-hosts and viewers alike on the second episode of the Biff Bam Popcast when I declared that I despised the film. So much so that in the third episode, JP Fallavollita read a statement, indirectly to me, that pretty much said, “What universe are you living in, buddy?” It was all meant in good fun, and JP is a great online friend whose opinions I respect a lot, but it might be time to defend my opinions on this one.
The Challenge
Now my buddy and editor-in-chief of Biff Bam Pop, Andy Burns, has punished me before for my movie opinions. Upon learning my not-so-fond thoughts on Alien 3, he immediately assigned it to me to review. Guess what he did to me again? Yep, I’m watching The Dark Knight again, for the first time since suffering through it in the theater. I’m a masochist. Just for a reminder, here‘s what I thought the first time.
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Saturday at the Movies – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
Great spy movies are a rare treat. They get you involved in the story on more than one level, as you keep an eye on the characters, an eye on the twisting story, and a number of possible outcomes in your mind. And I had as much fun at Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as I did at some of the great cold war spy movies, but the movie had a smart, confident sense of style and pacing that will keep you involved on an aesthetic level.
