Monday Movie Meme – Wash, Rinse and Repeat

Enjoying massage chairs at The Laundry Cafe while passing out flyers to customers for the Couch Fest 2014 Film FestivalAs an official Ambassador of the Couch Fest Films 2014 Festival, I am pleased to announce that the theme for this week’s Monday Movie Meme is inspired by The Laundry Café at One & Olney Square Plaza, where over one dozen short movies from around the globe are showing in Philadelphia on Saturday, December 6^th in the afternoon: Spin Cycles.

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring scenes where people are washing clothes. The characters or films you reference can be anywhere…in a Laundromat, at sea, in a laundry room, dormitory, etc. you get the picture. Only two movies that fit this bill come to mind for me, including “DIRTY LAUNDRY (AIR IT OUT),” a comedy about colorful characters who find themselves asking questions about life, morality and normality while washing clothes in an all-night Laundromat at 2:13am. They become clean of their life problems by nights end. Directed by Temple University graduate Shannon Newby, this movie was made in Philadelphia.

There is also a laundromat scene in "THE TOWN” where a guy gets chummy with the manager of a bank he just robbed, while she tries to wash a co-workers blood off her shirt in this heist movie directed by Ben Affleck.

What movies have YOU watched that feature scenes where people are washing clothes?

Join us on Saturday, December 6, for what MovieMaker Magazine calls one of the "top 5 coolest short film festival in the world."

Couch Fest is a cozy shorts film fest that brings world-class short movies out of the cinema and into non-traditional venues like living rooms, boats, community centers, and more. Meet your neighbors and see the best short films of the year.

Couch Fest Philadelphia is showing at The Laundry Café at One & Olney Plaza Shopping Center (Front and Olney sts).

Showtimes for The "BEST OF COUCH FEST FILMS" 2014:

3:00pm

*Free to the public—limited seating—no ticket required*

Don’t live in Philadelphia? Find showtimes for Couch Fest movie screenings in your area!

Monday Movie Meme – Please, Lemme Testify!

Our discussion on female assassins during the previous Monday Movie Meme was fun. This week’s theme is all about the troubles that arise when people go to trial, especially in criminal cases: Please, Lemme Testify!

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring people who are being targeted by law enforcement, criminals and/or attorneys because they have information that could make or break a court case. When making my selections for this week’s Please, Lemme Testify! theme, only two films came to mind. THE CLIENT features a young boy who becomes the target of a District Attorney after he witnesses a mob lawyer’s suicide; that could be connected to the murder of a local politician, in this thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon. There is also a lot of witness tampering going on in RUNAWAY JURY, a thriller about a wrongful death lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, starring Gene Hackman and John Cusak.

What movies have YOU watched that feature people who find themselves in a lot of trouble after witnessing, hearing or reading something they wish they didn’t know about?

Monday Movie Meme - The Ladykillers

Amila Terzimehic stars in Relativity Media´s November Man. © 2014 No Spies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.The theme for this week’s Monday Movie Meme is focused on the most dangerous women in film: The Ladykillers.  

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring female characters who are cold blooded murderers. These women take no prisoners regardless of whether their targets are the result of personal vendettas or professional duties.

Here are my selections for this week’s The Ladykillers

The November Man 

A female assassin goes after the sole witness to war crimes committed by a Russian president-elect; killing anyone involved or associated with the target including CIA operatives, in this spy thriller starring Amila Terzimehic and Pierce Brosnan.

Hanna

A ruthless female intelligence agents pulls out all the stops in her quest to eliminate a sixteen year-old girl, to keep some horrific secrets hidden, in this action thriller starring Cate Blanchett.

Belly 

If you’ve seen this crime drama starring Nas, DMX, then chances are you already know that the machete chick with the wild hair who swooped down out of thin air to kill a drug kingpin is the reason why I added it to my list of ladykillers.

Colombiana

Working as an assassin provides one woman with the skills to carry out a grudge against her most sought after target – the mobster who killed her parents. Actress Zoe Saldana stars in this crime drama that also made a previous Monday Movie Meme list for our Sniper on the Roof theme.

What movies have YOU watched featuring female assassins?