CLOSED | El Chicano Promotional Screening Ticket Giveaway

In honor of the film El Chicano (2019) coming out this Friday May 3rd, I have a quick little screening giveaway for you all in the Dallas, El Paso, Houston, McAllen, Phoenix, San Antonio, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco areas. If you're in or around one of those areas and want to attend an advance screening of the film tonight (May 1st 2019) all you have to do is click on the corresponding link below to redeem a pass. A limited amount of tickets are available.

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When L.A.P.D. Detective Diego Hernandez is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel, he uncovers links to his brother's supposed suicide and a turf battle that's about to swallow his neighborhood. Torn between playing by the book and seeking justice, he resurrects the masked street legend El Chicano. Now, out to take down his childhood buddy turned gang boss, he sets off a bloody war to defend his city and avenge his brother's murder.

Genre: Drama
Cast: Raúl Castillo, Aimee Garcia, Jose Pablo Cantillo, David Castañeda, Marco Rodríguez, Sal Lopez, Marlene Forte with Kate del Castillo and George Lopez
Directed By: Ben Hernandez Bray
Written By: Joe Carnahan and Ben Hernandez Bray
Produced By: Joe Carnahan
Rated: R

Here are a list of the screenings and as stated above, all you have to do to redeem the pass is click the link to the screening in your area. Tickets are limited.

DALLAS  
El Chicano - Dallas Screening Pass

EL PASO  
El Chicano - El Paso Screening Pass
HOUSTON  
El Chicano - Houston Screening Pass
MCALLEN  
El Chicano - McAllen Screening Pass
PHOENIX  
El Chicano - Phoenix Screening Pass
SAN ANTONIO  
El Chicano - San Antonio Screening Pass
NEW YORK  
El Chicano - New York Screening Pass
LOS ANGELES  
El Chicano - Los Angeles Screening Pass
SAN DIEGO  
El Chicano - San Diego Screening Pass
SAN FRANCISCO  
El Chicano - San Francisco Screening Pass

Unfortunately I have to return the chicks we hatched at the library to the farm and am unable to go to my local screening, so if you decided to redeem a pass and see the movie lemme know what you thought of it!

 This post and giveaway were sponsored but I did not receive monetary compensation.

Mini Life Update + Month In Review: January 2017...

As you've all probably noticed last month was very light on blog post and it's not for a lack of doing anything (Just look at the highlights from my month). It's because when I came back to work from my annual end of the year vacation I had to reassemble my desk because we had new carpeting put into our office while I was out. Then a couple of days later I had to disassemble it again because my Department Head decided that she wanted to have a bookshelf installed behind my desk and that just became a whole big deal. So for a good couple of weeks I was displaced with no access to my computer (I was literally sitting in the middle of our office in my chair sulking at one point because there was no place for me to go). And also because I caught the stomach bug that has been going around and was just miserable for a sold week and a half (I honestly still don't feel great) -- All of this while I was taking turns watching Nella with my sister because our parents were in Florida. So yeah, that's why there has been a serious lack of post this month but I promise that I'll be on the ball next month.

Now on to my first month in review of 2017...

♥ Justin booking us a trip to Spain.
♥ Celebrating my mother's birthday with my family.
♥ Watching The Driggs play at The Bitter End with Day, Justin, Phil and Steph.
♥ Attending an advance screening of Split (2017) with Nicole in New York City.
♥ Fat Kid Sunday with the crew.
♥ Justin's belated birthday dinner with his family.
♥ Dinners and video games with friends.
♥ Starting my final semester of school for my Directors certificate.
♥ Beginning to bullet journal.
♥ Hiring my favorite library volunteer to be our newest Page.
♥ Applying for graduation.
♥ Receiving an e-mail from a reader that followed my Sherlock Inspired DIY tutorial.
♥ Finally going to The Dead Rabbit (Voted best bar in the World 2016, where Day's friend Jesse works) for drinks.

 

♥ White Rabbit Project (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ Restored by the Fords (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ Kids Sweets Showdown (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ La La Land (2016) ♥
♥ Atlanta (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ The Crown (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ Split (2017) ♥
 ♥ Hidden Figures (2017)
♥ Trolls (2016) ♥

♥ Nikita Dragun ♥

The Visit...

Wednesday night I had the opportunity to attended an advance screening of M. Night Shyamalan's newest offering The Visit (2015), which I was super excited about being invited to because the trailer for this movie looks awesome.

Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit.  Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.  Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.      

Shyamalan produces The Visit through his Blinding Edge Pictures, while Blum produces through his Blumhouse Productions alongside Marc Bienstock (Quarantine 2: Terminal).  Steven Schneider (Insidious) and Ashwin Rajan (Devil) executive produce the thriller.

Genre: Thriller             
Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge
Written and Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock
Executive Producers: Steven Schneider, Ashwin Rajan
Rated: PG-13
Release Date: September 11th, 2015

Seeing as this is an M. Night Shyamalan film I don't want to go into too much detail about the movie, but what I will say is that it totally wasn't what the three of us (Myself, Nick and my sister's boyfriend Erik) were expecting and because of that we loved it more than we would have if it was what we thought it was. Does that make any sense?

If it doesn't, just know that we all really enjoyed it. It was ninety-four minutes of pure entertainment in my opinion, as well as that of the guys.

It's the kind of movie where if there is a good crowd (That is if you're into an interactive crowd. I am when it comes to horror/thriller type movies), it'll be even better. There were lots of people jumping back in their seats, screaming and making comments in the theater (I love me a well timed "OH HELL NO!") and it was just golden.

Overall I'm super happy with M. Night's newest offering to the World, especially since the last film of his that I saw was The Happening (2008) and I was not a fan of that one. I'd very much so recommend The Visit (2015) to anyone that enjoys M. Night's films or the thriller genre in general.

Ted 2...

Wednesday night I had the opportunity to attend an advance screening of Seth MacFarlane's newest offering Ted 2 (2015), which I was lucky to get enough tickets to so that I got to see it with my sister, cousin Nick and one of my other friends -- Which I'm noting to all of you because the four of us have varying taste in movies.

Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time.  Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow Ted writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as Jason Clark and John Jacobs.

Genre: Live Action/CG-Animated Comedy
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, John Slattery and Morgan Freeman      
Director: Seth MacFarlane 
Writers: Seth MacFarlane & Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild
Produced by: Scott Stuber, Seth MacFarlane, Jason Clark, John Jacobs
Executive Producers: Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
Rated: R
Release Date: June 26th, 2015

As I stated above, I went to this particular screening with three other individuals and we all walked out of the theater thinking the same exact thing "That movie was fucking hilarious!" All four of us were in total agreement that Ted 2 was the funniest movie we had seen in a while. Literally from the minute the movie started until it ended, we were all cracking up.

That all being said, I must note that I am a fan of Seth MacFarlane's work. I love Family Guy (1999-Present) and I really enjoyed Ted (2012) and A Million Ways To Die In The West, so if you don't enjoy him and his body of work I don't know if Ted 2 will be your cup of tea. But like I said, the four of us have varying taste in films and we all really really liked it. I mean, how could you not like a movie about a pot smoking, beer drinking stuffed bear that came to life that wants to be considered a person.

I liked it. I recommend it. I'd legalize Ted.

If any of you go see it, I'd love to know how you liked it.

CLOSED: Home Screening & Prize-Pack Giveaway...

In honor of DreamWork's upcoming animated film HOME coming out on March 27th, I've got a sweet little giveaway for one (1) lucky winner.

When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME. 

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, etc.
Directed by: Tim Johnson
Written by: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember & Adam Rex
Produced by: Suzanne Buirgy & Mireille Soria
Rating: PG
Release Date: March 27, 2015

One (1) lucky winner will receive a prize pack with the following...

• One (1) Four-Pack Of Screening Tickets To The HOME Screening In A Major City Near You
• One (1) HOME Yo-Yo
• One (1) HOME Phone Charm Plug
• One (1) HOME Cardholder

This is a standard Rafflecopter giveaway. In order to win you must leave a comment below about what HOME mean to you and follow this blog using Google Friend Connect. You can gain additional entries by doing a number of other tasks listed in the widget below. Good luck!

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And I leave you with Jennifer Lopez's video for "Feel the Light" & a clip of Rihanna's "Dancing in the Dark" both featured in HOME (2014). And those activity sheets I mentioned last week.

 ••••••••••••••••• CONTEST ENDS MARCH 16th AT MIDNIGHT •••••••••••••••••

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No one will be admitted late. This ticket may be used for admission only by the person to whom we issued it; it is not transferable. It has no cash value. The screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any video or audio recording devices (including, without limitation, cameras) into the venue and you consent to a physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device during this screening, you consent to your immediate removal from the venue and forfeiture of your recording device and its contents. Any attempted unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability. We reserve the right to pursue any and all available remedies at law and in equity for any unauthorized recording and/or copyright infringement, including without limitation statutory damages of up to $150,000 per violation, and nothing contained in this notice shall be construed to limit our available remedies and/or legal recourse. You assume all risks of personal injury arising from or incidental to attending the screening, whether occurring prior to, during, or after the event.

This post and giveaway were sponsored but I did not receive monetary compensation. I'll be receiving my own prize-pack identical to the winners. 

CLOSED: Non-Stop NYC Advance Screening Ticket Giveaway...

If you are in the New York City area and you'd like to attend an advance screening of Liam Neeson's newest film Non-Stop tomorrow Wednesday, February 26th at 7:30PM at the AMC Empire 25 I've got twenty (20) admit two tickets to giveaway. This is a super short giveaway, but totally worth it!

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. The film reunites Neeson with Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra & producer Joel Silver & co-stars Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore. 

NON-STOP in theaters February 28th. The film is PG-13.

 • Non-Stop Website • Non-Stop Facebook • Non-Stop Instagram •

Twenty (20) lucky winners will receive the following...

• One (1) admit two advance screening ticket to see Non-Stop for Wednesday, February 26th 2014 at 7:30PM in New York City at AMC Empire 25

NOTE: This is just for a movie ticket. You have to pay for your own transportation to the movie theater.
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••••••••••••••••• CONTEST ENDS FEBRUARY 25th 7:00PM •••••••••••••••••

Legal Mumbo Jumbo
No one will be admitted late. This ticket may be used for admission only by the person to whom we issued it; it is not transferable. It has no cash value. The screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any video or audio recording devices (including, without limitation, cameras) into the venue and you consent to a physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device during this screening, you consent to your immediate removal from the venue and forfeiture of your recording device and its contents. Any attempted unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability. We reserve the right to pursue any and all available remedies at law and in equity for any unauthorized recording and/or copyright infringement, including without limitation statutory damages of up to $150,000 per violation, and nothing contained in this notice shall be construed to limit our available remedies and/or legal recourse. You assume all risks of personal injury arising from or incidental to attending the screening, whether occurring prior to, during, or after the event.

This post and giveaway were sponsored but I did not receive monetary compensation. I saw Non-Stop Monday February 24th.