Week Four of the 2026 Month of Musicals!

All Musicals all month continued on! First up this week

was Muppet Treasure Island. This movie is fantastic.

Tim Curry as Long John Silver. Holy cow is he a fun

pirate! Tim Curry, am I right? Yes. I am. The Muppets

are hilarious in this one. Lots of wink-wink jokes for the

grown-ups. I rate Muppet Treasure Island 10 out of 10

Tim Curry Piratey Hearty Pirate Laughs.

Next up was The Greatest Showman, kind of the story of

P.T. Barnum. I enjoyed this quite a bit. Good music, a pretty

good love story and just kind of a feel-good (most of the time)
movie. Hugh Jackman is really good as usual. He sings. He dances.

He makes ya weepy. TGS is worth a watch and I will watch it

again someday. I rate this movie 9 out of 10 Top Hats.

And then, Shall We Dance starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Classic. You want to see some of the most inventive dancing ever?

If so, you want to watch Fred Astaire. That guy is awesome. And

Ginger Rogers is just pretty dang adorable. And when they dance

together? Not much else like it. Lots of humor as well of course. Don't

miss them on roller skates, the OLD kind that attach to your shoes.

Yikes. I rate Shall We Dance 10 out of 10 Linda Keene Masks.

And now, the one that I have been waiting for, the movie I was

saving for last, the movie that I have not seen for six years: La La Land.

I absolutely LOVE this movie. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are

so enjoyable to watch together. And the music? From the

first scene on the freeway featuring the song Another Day of Sun
to the Epilogue scene featuring Mia & Sebastian's Theme,

City of Stars and a bit of Another Day of Sun, my eyes and ears are

glued to the screen. The two very last shots of this movie could not have

been a lovelier way to end this Month of Musicals. Needless to say, I rate

La La Land 11 out of 10 George Michaels.

And that's it. The curtains have closed on the February 2026 Month of

Musicals at Borden Cinema. I had a great time watching all of these shows.

As these movies were pretty long I can't do this again very soon, but

in a couple of years?

Happy National Pig Day 2026!
(I don't like to brag, but
I drew that pig.)

~ Random Around the Ranch Photo of the Day ~

How about a little wooden shark sitting on a shelf?

Hoorah for the Third Week in the 2026 Month of Musicals!

First up this week was Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Starring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees this one was a rock

and roller. So many musical stars in this movie from Billy Preston

to Alice Cooper. In truth, not a great movie, but fun to watch

at least once. I rated this movie 6.5 out of 10 Strawberry Fields.

Next up was Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and the always

great Alan Rickman. This movie is dark, REALLY dark. Pretty

darn bloody too. Not one for the kiddies. Having said that,
wonderful music, wonderful movie and I love it. I rated
Sweeney 9 out of 10 Heads Going KA-BONK
on the Basement Floor.

And now, Bikini Beach. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

1964 beach party fun. Sand, surf, drag strips, young people
and pure zaniness! Fun thing to watch out for: Eric Von Zipper
giving himself the finger... AGAIN. I rated this movie 6 out of 10
Potato Bugs, but I probably should have gone slightly higher.

Yeah, Beach Party Tonight!

And the last movie for Week Three was Disney's The Lion King.

Everybody knows this movie. What more can I say? I rate this

movie 10 out of 10 The Lion Sleeps Tonights.

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh!

Week Four and the final week of
The Month of Musicals is underway!

I had my eyes on this little skeleton at Walmart for a

few weeks. He was in the fish tank department. I thought

he would look kind of cool in my cactus pot. I finally

broke down and bought him.

He seems to be angry, which is okay.

We all have our days.

I went to the dentist for another round of goodness.

I love their waiting room. The possibility for calm is there.


The Dentist Waiting Room.
(A short one.)

I know I've featured a lot of cactus lately, but man, the

wind around here has been brutal. It just blows this cactus

all to heck. It breaks up and rolls down the
rocks just to land in a big pile.



The wind pretty much snaps the big cactus in half.
I will salvage some of this and replant it either up
the hills or put some in pots or both. Even
though it is plentiful, to me it is just
too beautiful to go to waste.

Awwwwwwwww... A baby tumbleweed.

Week two of Borden Cinema's February Month of Musicals

wraps up after 4 more great shows! First up was Oliver!. I hadn't

seen this one before. I gave it 8 out of 10 Pocket Watches if not

just for the Consider Yourself sequence alone. Jack Wild, great.

Next up was Moulin Rouge. I had seen this movie once when

it first came out. It was the first movie I had ever seen on DVD.

I watched it at a friends house and she had a big screen (for the
time) and a stereo setup. For me it was like being at the theater.
I fell a bit in love with Ewan McGregor's character, Christian. The

action in this movie never stops and is quite insane. I rated it

8 out of 10 Glasses of Absinthe.

And now, The Phantom of the Opera (2004). I have never seen this movie

and have wanted to for years and years. I just never felt the time

was right, until The Month of Musicals. When this movie started

I could not believe my eyes. The Phantom was played by Gerard Butler!

Really?? I LOVE Gerard Butler. And he did not let me down. And also

a younger Patrick Wilson is in it. He is always good. The Music of
the Night. Yum. I rated Phantom 9 out of 10 Chandeliers.

And finally, as this week ended on a Friday the 13th, literally, we took a

break from musicals and as our tradition demands, watched a Friday the

13th movie. This time we watched Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes

Manhattan. Always a great time. I rate this movie 8 out of 10 Barrels of

Toxic Waste.

Well, The Month of Musicals is reminding me of one thing to be certain:

These movies are LONG. Two and a half to three hours long. That's a

LOT of musical!

Robert Duvall.

One of the best cowboys ever.

1931 - 2026

Rest In Peace.