Mom still ‘the’ woman in his life

MEN spend more money on Mother’s Day than they do for their lovers on Valentine’s Day, research claims.

They are so worried about impressing the most important woman in their lives that they fork out 68% more cash on keeping their mother happy than on romantic gifts for their partners.

A quarter of men admit they would rather see their football team lose than disappoint their mother, according to research from Asda.

Seventeen percent would rather be stood up on a date and 11% be late to their own wedding than let down their mom.

Supermarkets claim sales of flowers, champagne, chocolates and nightwear are higher in the run-up to Mother’s Day than February 14. Last year Asda sold 23% more chocolate, prosecco and novelty gifts on Mother’s Day than Valentine’s Day.

The supermarket predicts it will sell at least twice as many flowers and cards this Mother’s Day compared to Valentine’s Day. – Daily Mail A MURKY stew of sin, vengeance and expiation boils up and over in Dig Two Graves, a flawed but gripping horror-thriller, handsomely wrought on a slim budget by filmmaker Hunter Adams. Add to the recipe a dash of demonic intervention to expose what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

Teenage Jacqueline “Jake” Mather (Samantha Isler) lives in a densely wooded corner of the rural Midwest, circa 1977, where she faces a terrible choice: Three strangers with dark powers offer her a chance to bring her dead brother back to life. The trade-off ? Jake must cause the demise of her only friend, Willie Proctor (Gabriel Cain).

In a prologue, set 30 years earlier, a sheriff and his deputy dispose of two bodies in a water-filled quarry. Back in the film’s present, old Sheriff Waterhouse (the dependably gruff Ted Levine) can’t stop flashing back to that 1947 atrocity. Jake is Waterhouse’s beloved granddaughter, still grieving over her brother, who jumped into that same quarry and drowned. Because she was holding his hand before he jumped, but pulled back at the last second, she’s now racked with guilt.

Guilt, as it happens, fuels every plot point in the film. Director Adams had an overarching vision for Dig Two Graves, and he has stuck to it. The story takes improbably lurid turns and sometimes tangles its thread.

Yet at every twist, it is saved by the moral weight of the tale, the gorgeous, haunted vistas and the solidly credible, equally haunted acting.

Adams’s artful interweaving of past and present illuminates what kind of sin demands such terrible wages – The Washington Post