Movies
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My Favorite Things - ‘Top 5 Summer Movie Memories’
With summer movie season officially kicked off… wait, who am I kidding. With Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End all released prior to Memorial Day, we may already be onto the Autumn Oscar season by the time I finish scribing this list.
Oh well, once upon a time the [...]
My Favorite Things - ‘Top 5 Movies That Made This Grown Man Weep’
Ed’s Note - This piece was originally posted in July 2006. When I caught a Comment on my Cousin Jason’s Biggerboat site stating my Aunt Sharon’s intention to reveal a list of film’s that made my Uncle Ron (a grown man if there ever was one) cry, I decided to repost this here to provide her with a forum [...]
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What hath Star Wars wrought?
Ever since King George closed out his original series of space opera flicks with that great campfire ditty, Yub Yub, Hollywood has been enamored with the power of three. These days, every franchise gets tagged with a three-picture deal. And while a trilogy makes sense when the entire story arc is [...]
The First Rule of Fight Club… SMASH!!!
Aint it Cool News has been running rumors which have just been confirmed by a piece in Variety earlier today. Edward Norton has been cast as Bruce Banner in the forthcoming Hulk sequel. These comic flicks just keep impressing with their casting. I’ve already gushed about the way The Dark Knight is coming together and [...]
Continue reading »Shadows of Colossus
I came across this article on Kotaku, a popular Gaming Blog, regarding an intriguing bit of product placement in the new Adam Sandler flick, Reign Over Me.
Reign, a comedy drama directed by Mike Binder, stars Adam Sandler as Charlie, a New Yorker who has disconnected from reality in the wake of a massive personal tragedy. One [...]
Batting 300
I caught this flick last weekend with my best bud Sean. Earlier this year, he had posted his Top 5 Films of 2006. When I tried to comment, I realized that the only way I could make out a Top 5 List of my own was to list every movie I had seen in the [...]
No Escape
John Carpenter must be spinning in his grave. I read this morning that the trifecta is complete - there are now remakes of his three greatest movies in the works. While Rob Zombie continues toiling on his Halloween remake and Ronald Moore polishes the script for The Thing redux, now comes word that producer Neal [...]
Continue reading »Two Faced
The Hollywood Reporter has a story this morning confirming that Aaron Eckhart is in final negotiations to play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Absolutely perfect casting!!! I think Eckhart imparts a nice duality to the role -as he oftens comes across as a noble tough guy one moment and a smooth criminal the next. [...]
Continue reading »Leaning Tower
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
That’s the first line of the first entry in Stephen King’s ambitious seven-part fantasy series – The Dark Tower. A simple, crisp statement which when first glimpsed by my adolescent eyes, so many years ago, carried such weight and promise.
There are seven novels in [...]
My Favorite Things - ‘Top 5 Funny Movies’
Last summer when I started my recurring series, ‘My Favorite Things’, I documented a whole series of categories and stored them away for a rainy day. So far we’ve covered my favorite Scary Movies, Individual Scenes, Film Endings, Comic Book Flicks and of course, the five flicks that made this grown man cry. I thought it [...]
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