Over at Cinema Sentries, I alternate writing the Picks of the Week with another guy, Dave.  When I’m not writing that week’s Pick, I write my Five Cool Things articles. On several occasions I’ve gotten the weeks mixed up, and I’ll either write a Pick of the Week when it isn’t my turn to, or, like this week, I’ll write a Five Cool Things when I was supposed to write a Pick. 

The guy who runs Cinema Sentries texted me last night around eight about my error.  I promised to get a Pick of the Week written ASAP. In my mind I was going to dash something off quickly.  I’d write a couple of paragraphs about my pick, then maybe one single line for anything else that looked interesting.

But me being me, I wrote a whole freaking essay about turning 50 and how movies seem to change as you grow older.  Eventually I landed on the great movie Body Heat being released by Criterion as my pick.  You can read the whole thing here.