Category Archives: Movies

Travel trends: Taking Air Hobbit to Middle-earth

Posted on November 28, 2012 by planetlippstone

Have you seen the latest billboard for the new Peter Jackson movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? It’s on an airplane. Air New Zealand has decked out one of its jets with a giant decal inspired by the movie. It’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, TV shows | Tagged 30 Rock, Air New Zealand, Business Time, Dancing with the Stars, Flight of the Conchords, Homeland, Jemaine Clement, Kriste Schaal, Murray Leggy Blonde, New Zealand's South Island, Peter Jackson, Rhys Darby, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2 Comments

Dates on a plane? Eeek!

Posted on May 22, 2012 by planetlippstone

To the best of my knowledge, Mr. & Mrs. Facebook didn’t meet this way. But it may become as routine as booking that airplane seat online. Picking a seat mate by viewing his or her Facebook or LinkedIn profile. With … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged airplanes, Facebook, Internet safety, KLM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, LinkedIn, love on NYC subway, Mark Zuckerberg, Samuel L. Jackson, social seating, travel | Leave a comment

Barnabas Collins is dead! Long live Barnabas Collins!

Posted on April 21, 2012 by planetlippstone

Dick Clark, Levon Helm, and now… Jonathan Frid. Who? Long before Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, White Fang (sorry, just had to slip Soupy Sales in there), there was a 1960s TV show called Dark Shadows. You might … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Tropical Paradises, TV shows | Tagged Buffy, Caribbean, Club Med, Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp, Jonathan Frid, Martinique, rum, travel, True Blood, Twilight | 4 Comments

Too late to escape Biggest Loser Resort

Posted on March 18, 2012 by planetlippstone

It was all I could do to get out of bed to make my longest commute ever to a gym: From PA to LA. When I left Philly airport for The Biggest Loser Resort in Malibu, it was sunny and … Continue reading →

Posted in Health & Wellness, Movies | Tagged Brian DePalma, health and fitness, LAX, movies made in Philadelphia, Rocky, The Biggest Loser Resort Malibu, travel, Van Nuys Flyaway | Leave a comment

Behind the Scenes: ‘The Descendants’

Posted on March 4, 2012 by planetlippstone

Did The Descendants have you lusting to go off into the gaw-jus Hawaiian sunset with Matt King (George Clooney)? Or at least to want to hang out with him and the kids a little longer? What I most liked about … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind the scenes, Movies, Tropical Paradises | Tagged Alexander Payne, Barack Obama Hawaii, George Clooney, Hawaii, Hawaiian culture, Movies, The Descendants, travel | Leave a comment

‘The Help’ missing a key ingredient

Posted on February 25, 2012 by planetlippstone

With Oscar just around the corner, I decided to see another Best Picture nominee I hadn’t gotten to: The Help. Besides, I’d heard about the chocolate pie that was central to the story, and I wanted an excuse to bake … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Allison Janney, chocolate pie, desserts, In the Heat of the Night, Jim Crow, Oscars, race relations, segregation, Sidney Poitier, The Help, The Wire, Wendell Pierce | Leave a comment

Why can’t all airports be like this? Sigh.

Posted on February 12, 2012 by planetlippstone

It was the perfect airport moment, short of having the Beach Boys singing God Only Knows while greeting your peeps like they did in Love Actually. (Yeah, I like a shot of sickeningly sweet every now and then. And I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in At the airport, Europe, General Travel, Movies | Tagged Azores, dangers of phone-charging stations, free airport Internet, Garry Marshall, high tech, Love Actually, Movies, Portugal, Richard Curtis, Silicon Valley, Terceira, travel, Valentine's Day | Leave a comment

‘The Artist’: Go for the dog, stay for the movie

Posted on January 28, 2012 by planetlippstone

I used to love nothing more than to lose myself at the movies. But there hasn’t been much worth justifying the drive and the price, especially when you can watch at home. And no matter the venue, I’m usually disappointed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Don Draper, Hollywood, Jack Russell terriers, James Cromwell, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Jon Hamm, Malcolm McDowell, Michel Hazanavicius, Paramount Studios, silent movies, The Artist, Uggie | 6 Comments

Penn State: The Movie

Posted on November 12, 2011 by planetlippstone

In case you think I’m being insensitive about the horrifying allegations enveloping Penn State, I’m not. I’m being realistic. With a partner who graduated from what’s now the university’s law school, I’m even more saddened. Especially because an otherwise decent … Continue reading →

Posted in Football, Movies | Tagged Alec Baldwin, Bennett Miller, Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Harvey Weinstein, James Gandolfini, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, John Slattery, Paul Bettany, Penn State, Tom Hanks, Tommy Lee Jones, William Hurt | Leave a comment

Behind the scenes: ‘Witness’

Posted on August 22, 2011 by planetlippstone

Once upon a time, I worked with Harrison Ford’s future daughter-in-law at a TV station on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. Now I’m boarding a tourist van to find out how Paramount made the box-office smash Witness, which cemented … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind the scenes, Celebrities, Entertainment, Movies, Road trips | Tagged Amish, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lancaster County, Lukas Haas, PA, Philadelphia, Witness | 5 Comments