Wisetrips Travel Blog

I had really enjoyed reading Andy Weir's bestselling novel Project Hail Mary , and was delighted to learn that a movie was being made (just like The Martian). Since it had excellent reviews, Inna and I decided to see it at the Cinemark CinéArts Santana Row  movie theater. We chose the 15:25 showing and stopped by at the Augustine cafe (for cappuccinos) before the show. The cappuccinos were not bad, and the apple turnover …

On Saturday, December 23, Inna and I decided to visit nearby Santana Row and watch the latest Hunger Games movie - The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Both of us have read the Hunger Games series of books by Suzanne Collins and enjoyed the first Hunger Games movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence. The newest Hunger Games movie is a prequel that focuses on Coriolanus Snow. According to Wikipedia , excellent plot summary:…

After many weeks of planning, we finally found the time to watch Oppenheimer at the Westfield Valley Fair Mall's newly opened Showplace Ikon movie theater at 16:10.  Once we purchased the tickets (with assigned seats), we walked over to the theater and reclined in the excellent chairs. According to Wikipedia : Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical drama film [5] written and direct…

With the sudden and unexpected flare-up of my Ulcerative Colitis, I was unable to do most of the sport-related activities that I usually favor. However, despite fatigue, I realized I may be good enough to see a movie. Noticing that " Downton Abbey " was playing in the Los Gatos Theatre, I decided to see it with Inna. Both Inna and I were big fans of the British Series Downton Abbey and were looking forwa…

The first Star Wars movie I saw was " Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back " in the early 1980s in Shillington, Pennsylvania. This occurred before VCRs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and Netflix existed. Back then, the only way to see a movie was to see it playing in the movie theater. That is until I discovered that my local Radio Shack had a laser disk player (these played large, LP-sized disks), and one da…

Today, we watched  Elysium  at the local AMC Saratoga Movie Theater. The movie had an interesting take on the future, where all the rich people live off the Earth, on the space station "Elysium," and all the poor, wretched souls live on Earth, suffering from poor health care, crime, and unemployment. The movie was enjoyable but not profound, and did not develop characters well. However, I still enjoyed it, and …