Well, whaddayaknow, Takers, the movie that was never on my radar is the box office winner this weekend. The first time I learned this movie existed was when seemingly the entire movie blogosphere cried foul over how bad their poster were. There’s bad, and then there’s BAD Photoshop job, and this one was beyond dreadful. Ok, [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Five Notable Ensemble-Cast Movies in the Last Decade
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Flix List, tagged best ensemble cast movies, Crash, Gosford Park, Love Actually, movies, Paris je t'aime ensemble cast, Takers bad photoshop job poster, Takers win box office, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, top five ensemble cast movies last decade on August 31, 2010 | 42 Comments »
31-Days Movie Meme: Final Three
Posted in Movie Memes, tagged 31-days movie meme, Best villain, Castor Troy, D'Artagnan The Man in the Iron Mask, Face/Off, John Travolta, Lion King Mufasa dies, movies, Nicolas Cage, Saddest death scene, Satine dies Moulin Rouge, Sense & Sensibility on August 30, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Day 27 – Best villain Now, this is a tricky one, what constitutes ‘best’ villain? Are we grading ‘em based on entertainment factor, as they’re naughty but oh so much fun to watch? Now those I’ve covered in this post of charming bad boys. Or the most evil? In which case they get under our [...]
Cool Inception Info Graphic – have you seen it?
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Inception, Inception infographic contest winner, Inception infographic Fast Company, Inception movie plot, movies on August 27, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Happy Friday all! I for one am glad the weekend’s around the corner. It’s been a tough week at work as I’m buried with piles of work. So pardon me for a lack of real post today, but I do want to share this super cool chart my husband showed my a couple of days [...]
31-Days Movie Meme Day #24 & 25 — Fave movie quote & Movie I plan on watching
Posted in Movie Memes, tagged 31-days movie meme, Batman Begins quote, Ben-Hur quote, Derek Jacobi Gracchus Gladiator, Favorite movie quotes, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, memorable movie quote Gladiator, movies, Purple Rose of Cairo on August 26, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Day 24 – Quote you use most often Well, I don’t use it too often, but I guess more often than others: “Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” I find that I use a lot of quotes from Gladiator a lot, there so many memorable ones as well as one-liners [...]
Hollywood’s Fantasy Draft: My dream cast
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Anomalous Material Hollywood Fantasy Draft, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Henney, Eva Green, Gerard Butler, Helen Mirren, Hollywood Fantasy Draft, James McAvoy, Lee Pace, movies, Ridley Scott, Timothy Dalton on August 25, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Happy Wednesday all! In lieu of my scheduled posts that I have yet to finish, let me just take the time to share the mega blog-a-thon project I’m currently participating in. It’s a fantastic game from the genius mind of my buddy Castor Troy of Anomalous Material (a fantastic blog btw if you don’t already [...]
Conspicuous Trailers of the Week: The Romantics, Heartbreaker, Cairo Time
Posted in Flix Trailers, tagged Cairo Time, Cairo Time trailer, Heartbreaker trailer, Hearthbreaker, Josh Duhamel Katie Holmes The Romantics, movie trailers, movies, Patricia Clarkson, Romain Duris, The Romantics trailer, Vanessa Paradis on August 24, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I realize I haven’t had a trailer post in the entire month of August so I’m playing catch up! Well, I like having some sort of a theme and these three trailers are all about romanza … yet each tells a very different love story and of course, not all trailers are created equal. THE [...]
31 Days Movie Meme Day 20 & 21: Favorite Kiss and Romantic Couple
Posted in Movie Memes, tagged 31-days movie meme, Favorite movie kiss, favorite romantic couple, favorite unconventionally-romantic movies, John Thornton North & South, movies, Richard Armitage BBC North & South, Top Ten Movie Couples on August 23, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Another two-fer today, folks, as I’m a bit behind on this 31-days movie meme. Day 20 Favorite kiss: The train station scene of BBC’s North & South miniseries Well, as this past Saturday was Richard Armitage’s 39th Birthday, it is fitting to post this very scene, which happens to be one of my favorite movie [...]
Wet Blogathon: Jane Austen’s Beautiful Rain Scenes
Posted in Blog Events, Movie Memes, tagged Alan Rickman Col Brandon, Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility, BBC Sense & Sensibility, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFayden, movies, Pride & Prejudice 2005, rain scenes, Sense & Sensibility on August 22, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Andrew at EncoreEntertainment is conducting yet another movie meme blog-a-thon and the topic is an irresistible one: Great rain scenes! I love rain scenes… not only are they usually beguiling and beautiful, rain undeniably adds drama/romance/terror/suspense to any given scene, depending on how the director frames the scene. One thing for sure, as Andrew said, [...]
Everybody’s Chattin’: Five Blog Links Worth Your Time
Posted in Everybody's Chattin', tagged Anomalous Material Hollywood Fantasy Draft, Best Movie Cast meme, Everybody's chattin', Five blog links worth checking out, movie blogs, movies, Scott Pilgrim review on August 20, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Happy Friday, everyone! Time to highlight some great posts I think you ought to check out: My buddy Castor over at Anomalous Material has concocted an über fun and addictive game called The Hollywood Fantasy Draft. It’s kinda like Fantasy Football for movie lovers! We get to play movie producers and cast our director and [...]
31 Days Movie Meme Day #13: Favorite animated movie
Posted in Movie Memes, tagged 31-days movie meme, Beauty and the Beast, Chicken Run, movies, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, top five animated movies, Wall-E on August 19, 2010 | 18 Comments »
I grew up watching Disney Princesses flicks, so to this day I always have a fondness for animated movies. Well, as I mentioned in my Films That Define Us post, one of the movies that left a lasting impression on me is Sleeping Beauty. But I’ve grown out of the fairy tale love story stuff [...]








