I love quad posters. They’re usually more interesting that the typical vertical format and this one is no different. I thought that the first official poster looked terrible, it’s definitely one of those cases when bad posters happens to good movies. This one however, is regal looking version worthy of an Oscar contender! The historical [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Poster of the Week: The King’s Speech
Posted in Flix Posters, tagged Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, King George VI story, movie posters, movies, The King's Speech, The King's Speech quad poster on November 30, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Musings on ‘Uncharted’ movie casting news
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Gerard Butler Nathan Drake, Mark Wahlberg Nathan Drake Uncharted, movies, Nathan Drake Uncharted, Nathan Fillion for Nathan Drake, Neil Burger to direct Uncharted, Richard Armitage for Nathan Drake, Uncharted movie, Uncharted movie casting, video game adaptation on November 28, 2010 | 33 Comments »
I normally don’t make a special post on just one casting news, especially on a project I’m not even familiar about. But I was at a giant retail store yesterday and the video game Uncharted 2 was featured on one of those giant TVs and I actually stopped for five minutes to watch it. I’m [...]
A Thanksgiving Post: 25 things in movies I’m thankful for
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Flix List, tagged 25 things in movies I'm thankful for, Audrey Hepburn, Dear Frankie The Stranger, Equilibrium Christian Bale Emily Watson, Happy Thanksgiving, movies, Princess Bride Inigo Montoya quote, Stan Lee cameos Marvel movies, Watchmen trailer Smashing Pumpkins song on November 25, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Those celebrating Thanksgiving today, hope it’s been lovely and lively. To those in other parts of the world, I bid you happy-almost-weekend day Well, it’s not as if you need a special day to give thanks, right? But just for the sake of being timely, I’ve been pondering about my love of movies and I’d [...]
Wishing all a blessed Thanksgiving. Travel safe!
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Airplane! trailer, Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition, George Clooney Ryan Bingham, Happy Thanksgiving, movies, The Last of the Mohicans, travel tip Up in the Air, traveling for the holidays, Up in the Air Asian quote on November 24, 2010 | 20 Comments »
It’s Thanksgiving eve… or here in America is also known as travel-headache day. Fortunately, I don’t have to travel anywhere this time, but I feel for all of my American friends who have to be on the road, be it by car, train or worse… planes! Air travel seems to be made worse this year [...]
British Acting Royalty on Harry Potter Movies: My Top Ten Favorites
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Flix List, tagged Best of British cast Harry Potter, British acting royalty on Harry Potter, British actors, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter movies, movies, Top ten favorite Harry Potter supporting cast on November 23, 2010 | 43 Comments »
Last week, Roger Ebert tweeted ‘Why haven’t Helen Mirren and Judi Dench ever made a Harry Potter film?’ Hmmm, good question, Mr. Ebert… why haven’t they? I certainly would LOVE to see both of them in at least one or two installments. Then a few days later, I read a piece of news report about [...]
Musings on Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part I
Posted in Flix Reviews, tagged Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows shadow pupet animation, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows review, movies, Rupert Grint on November 22, 2010 | 24 Comments »
After months anticipating this, I wasn’t going to wait another week to check this out. Early Saturday afternoon, hubby and I made our way to the cinema to see an HP movie for the first time on the big screen. The gist of the story of the last installment of the series center on how [...]
Everybody’s Chattin’: Five blog links for your reading pleasure
Posted in Everybody's Chattin', tagged Animal Kingdom movie, Cowboys & Aliens trailer, Everybody's chattin', Guy Pearce, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter guide, movies on November 19, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Happy Friday, all! Man, I can’t believe this is the last weekend before Turkey Day. My company gives away free frozen turkey every year, and the voucher is already available for pickup. I had a Harry Potter-related post for today but I couldn’t finish it in time, so save that for early next week. Anybody [...]
Top Five Favorite Movies about British Monarchs
Posted in The Flix List, tagged Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth Golden Age, Michael Sheen Tony Blair, movies, Mrs. Brown Judi Dench, Prince William and Kate Middleton engaged, The Queen Helen Mirren, top five movies on British royals, WIlliam & Kate royal wedding, Young Victoria on November 18, 2010 | 33 Comments »
I’m sure you’ve all heard about Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement this week. I had no idea they’ve been dating for more than eight years, sounds like their romance is the stuff that dreams are made of. I haven’t been following news about them pretty closely, but from the occasional tidbits I heard, they [...]
Guest Post – From Vision to Film: American Gangster
Posted in Flix News, tagged American Gangster from vision to film, Antoine Fuqua, Denzel Washington, from vision to film, Gerard Butler to star in Afterburn, movies, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, the story behind American Gangster on November 17, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Welcome to a new edition of From Vision to Film, courtesy of my pal Ted S., the movie connoisseur and walking movie encyclopedia We always try to be timely with this post series, so we’re posting it today to coincide with Russell Crowe’s new movie The Next Three Days (read my full review) and Denzel [...]








