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Imagine writing a book about a place you completely made up in your mind and it is becoming a popular best seller. Everything is as going well. You imagine your star role as being the handsome cover model as the character called “Dash”. This is how author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) is known as an […]
I have always been a huge fan of a good horror film. I loved sitting in a dark room with some popcorn and turning on a huge thriller. The scarier, the better it was for me. I would sometimes jump at the parts that make people love them the best and spill popcorn all over […]
I remember watching the 1984 version of this movie starring Drew Barrymore and George C Scott and David Keith about a little girl with extraordinary abilities to start a fire when she gets upset or mad. Well in this version of “Firestarter” a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller about a little girl, Charlie, […]
This movie, Marry Me, is a movie about celebrity, marriage and social media. I am a fan of Jennifer Lopez and this movie, Marry Me, stars Jennifer as musical superstar Kat Valdez and Own Wilson as Charlie Gilbert who is a Math teacher. Now, who would ever expect a school teacher and a superstar to […]
Opening in Theaters on February 26, 2021 The Movie “Nobody” is a thriller starring Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell, a man that is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband that takes life’s indignities on the chin and never pushing back. He is just a nobody. One night two thieves break into the family home […]
I have never been much of fan of an animated type movie but today when I got this one and watched the trailer for it, I knew I just had to write something about it since it was just so cute. This is a sequel to DreamWorks animation’s Oscar-nominated blockbuster comedy, The Templeton Brothers, Tim […]
The sequel to MGM’s 2019 box-office smash hit, The Addams Family has rounded out its stellar voice cast with the additions of Bill Hader as all-new character “Cyrus,” and Javon “Wanna” Walton taking on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, “Pugsley.” Hader and Walton join returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz […]
I read the press release and knew I wanted to watch this documentary by Ric Osuna. The UnAmerican Struggle has been a hit in the Film Festival world and I am sure that when goes to wider distribution it will be a huge hit. The film looks at social issues that we face and how […]
This book is one that I have been looking forward to for quite some time. At long last it seems ready to hit the shelves of bookstores later this week. Fact, as the saying goes, is stranger than fiction. This story certainly lays testament to that thought. “On the morning of June 2, 1981, two […]
A couple of days ago I published a short article about Damien Lewis and his very soon to be published new book Zero Six Bravo. I have had time to digest the story, and maybe more importantly get a little of the back story from the author. Lets start with Damien Lewis. He has something […]
There is little doubt that the hot commodity in the US book and film world are dramatization’s of recent military actions. We seem hooked on the adrenaline rush from sharing vicariously the danger of combat. There are few people that have not heard about SEAL team six, this crack force killed Osama Bin Laden. Yes […]
It is hard to keep up with everything that is released. The main stream media tend to pick a movie and stick with it. This means that other movies (possibly better) get no mention. Of course there are movies that do indeed deserve to be hidden! There are movies that are so ‘whacked out’ that […]
I spend a fair amount of time talking to people connected with the movie world. They tend to be larger than life, and always entertaining. There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to how a movie comes into being, or what subject it might be about. Next March the poor unsuspecting world is […]
In December Le Carre’s iconic book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will be hitting the big screen. I will be curious to see how this complex story can be compressed into a two hour production. It was written in 1972 by author John Le Carre. The author kicked off his writing career with two novellas, Call […]
It’s unfortunate for Rhys Ifans, who turns out a terrific performance in this lightly dramatic biopic about the life and times of British dope smuggler Howard Marks (aka Mr. Donald Nice, among other names) that writer/director Bernard Rose (Candyman, Immortal Beloved) didn’t give him a more coherent story to take part in. It starts out […]
Returning to the exaggerated self-portraits that they created in director Michael Winterbottom’s meta-film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon again play versions of themselves in this Michael Winterbottom film – created by editing down bits and pieces from the critically acclaimed six-episode television series of the same name. The […]
Money Ball is deservingly going to draw comparisons to The Social Network primarily because both are true stories about people who found success doing the seemingly impossible by going about their business in an unlikely and unusual way. The other comparison will come from the fact that both had academy award level performances. Money Ball […]
What do you get when you give the fractured fairy tale treatment to the classic story of Robin Hood: a reworking of the basic plot, some slyly witty writing and topical references, top-of-the-line vocal talent? Why, of course, it’s Hoodwinked, a comical airy soufflé of a movie. Following on that relative success, a sequel, with […]
In his feature debut, Mexican writer/director Jorge Michel Grau is on the cusp of something great. The setup is solid: a family of middle-class cannibals attempts to carry on with their lives and make do in Mexico City after the untimely death of their patriarch and sole hunter. Mix in some infighting between the two […]
For the telling of an epic prison-camp escape and trek to freedom – all the way from Siberia to India – four thousand, five hundred miles across wolf-haunted forests, the high Gobi Desert and finally, over the Himalayas into Tibet – The Way Back is a surprisingly understated and subdued narrative. But then it’s directed […]
Tangled is just about the only movie that we actually got up and went to see when it was in the theater, rather than waiting for an offer to review the eventual DVD, so mad props for the trailer which we watched on-line, and which was promising enough to get us out of the house […]
Inside The World Of WikiLeaks When the web site Wikileaks first started it was greeted by yawns and indifference. The web was already awash with sites dedicated to conspiracies and whistle blowing. What made Wikileaks any different? We now know the answer to that question. Wikileaks was different, they opted to go where other sites […]
Oh, it’s obvious from the start that this is a Baz Luhrmann movie . . . splashy, visual, an assembly of appealing (or appalling) characters, a fairly predictable but non-the-less satisfactory ‘go where your dream takes you!’ plot, music that won’t stop, and simply acres of swirling neon-colored marabou, very strange Mohawk hairstyles – for […]
“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.” If this familiar phrase gets your adrenaline going then I have a feeling anything I’m going to say below this paragraph will be mostly irrelevant. The only thing you need to know is that The Six Million Dollar Man is finally available in North America – and […]
Of all the important musicians in the last century, it’s pretty easy to see that John Lennon stands out for his influence on music, pop culture, and society in general. Along with Lennon himself, his music and activism, along with their effects on the world, have been well documented in countless short and feature-length documentaries. […]
Will Ferrell is famous as one of Hollywood’s top comedic leading men known primarily for his overacting and generally crazy onscreen antics.  However, Ferrell has a complementary talent: (other than his sexy crooning vocals featured in “Semi-Pro”) voice acting. Ferrell voices the title character “Megamind†an evil blue alien who crash-lands on earth after his […]
Since you probably missed director Taylor Hackford’s (Ray, The Devil’s Advocate) Love Ranch during its very limited theatrical release this summer, consider this your notice that it’s actually a well-made, powerfully acted film that is worth checking out on DVD when it is released early next month (November 9th, to be specific). Hackford, directing his […]
If you haven’t yet heard about the twisted premise underlying Dutch director Tom Six’s “thriller” The Human Centipede, take a moment to imagine what it might entail. Now imagine something a little bit worse. And then probably a little worse than that. Got an image in your mind? “But wait,” you think, “that’s much too […]
After filmmaker Albert Nerenberg and his wife suffered through deaths in the family leading up to the birth of their first child, he found that he had “lost his laugh.” Like all dedicated creatives, he let his own life experience serve as inspiration for a new project – an investigation into laughter – where it […]
“Hello my name is Artois. If I am alone I am lost.” In the first five minutes, Virgil (Mark Scheibmeir)Â and his girlfriend Angie (Sydney Andrews) discover a lost goat on a country road with the above message around his neck. And then the goat is gone. What just happened? That’s the question you’re likely […]
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