Vintage Route 66 TV show screening July 16th
Jun 25th
Visitors will be able to get their kicks on “Route 66” as Flagler College screens an episode of the classic 1960s TV series on July 16.
The 1964 episode “This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You,” which was filmed in St. Augustine and the Hotel Ponce de Leon,
will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Virginia Room of the Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St., St Augustine.
In addition, locals who were used as extras in the episode are being asked to come to the screening to be recognized.
The free event is being presented as part of the City of St. Augustine’s Concerts in the Plaza series and will feature music by Lis & Lon Williamson with Rick Kuncicky before the showing.
For more info, call Laura Stevenson Dumas, Director of College Relations at Flagler College, at 904-819-6205.
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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 24 majors, 29 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost; tuition is $24,960, including room and board. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.
Source: Flagler College
The Bling Ring – Movie Trailer
Jun 24th
In THE BLING RING, Oscar Winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola takes us inside the world of these teens, where their youthful naivete and excitement is amplified by today’s culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession. The members of the Bling Ring introduce us to temptations that any teenager would find hard to resist. And what starts out as youthful fun spins out of control, revealing a sobering view of our modern culture.
“This Is the End” Weird and Ridiculous
Jun 22nd
“Weird and Ridiculous”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
This Is the End doesn’t have anything to do with the opening words to a famous song by The Doors, unless you change the reference to how they got their name from “the doors of perception” to “the gates of Hell.”
No, this movie is a comic look at what a group of famous Hollywood actors might do if the predictions in the Book of Revelation came true.
All of the actors play themselves, and the movie opens with Seth Rogen meeting his friend and fellow actor Jay Baruchel at the airport, who is coming into Los Angeles to spend the weekend with Seth.
Seth tells Jay, “Here’s to the best weekend you’ve ever had in your life!”
Little do they know or realize that it is going to be the last weekend of their lives.
Jay doesn’t live in Los Angeles on purpose, because he doesn’t like the lifestyle there, but Seth convinces him to go to a housewarming party at the new house belonging to James Franco, which James designed himself to be like a fortress, and for the sake of the movie, it is a good thing he did.
The party is wild and raucous, the partygoers are all actors you will recognize and some you won’t, but during the party something weird and strange and terrifying happens outside in Los Angeles, which causes everyone to leave except for Franco, Seth, Jay, Jonah Hill, and Craig Robinson, and they are so frightened that they all sleep together to feel safe.
The next morning they wake up to find Danny McBride in the kitchen making breakfast, which is strange, because Danny wasn’t even invited to the party.
They discuss whether this might be the Apocalypse, realize that they don’t have much food or any water, but they do have drugs, as you might have expected if you have seen any of the movies that these actors have made together.
Emma Watson breaks into the house and tells them that it is obvious that a zombie invasion is happening, but she leaves with all the remaining food when she overhears the guys discussing what is not going to happen with one girl in the house with six guys.
This Is the End is just a weird and ridiculous home movie on a Hollywood budget with famous actors.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
