Hello everyone! Welcome to another collaborative post with my lovely friend Paula G! This time we each came up with five movies we wish we could see on the big screen (either a repeat viewing or for the first time). Seems like almost every other week nowadays we hear news of previously-released films being shown [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Random Question: What movies you wish would get a theatrical re-release?
Posted in The Flix List, tagged Atonement, Ben Hur, Children of Men, Indiana Jones, LA Confidential, Lawrence of Arabia, movies, movies we wish would get theatrical rerelase, Superman: The Movie, The Rocketeer, theatrical rerelease, Valhalla Rising on July 29, 2011 | 64 Comments »
First Look: Machine Gun Preacher, Shame & Margin Call
Posted in Flix News, Flix Trailers, Upcoming Flix, tagged Carey Mulligan, Gerard Butler Machine Gun Preacher, Machine Gun Preacher, Margin Call trailer, movies, Sam Childers Machine Gun Preacher, Shame Michael Fassbender, Shame Steve McQueen, TIFF 2011 lineup, Zachary Quinto on July 27, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Hi all, can I just say for the record that I LOVE Twitter!! I get most of my news from there and it keeps me informed even when I’m out and about on holiday… and in turn I can also inform folks of what’s going on right at that very second something is happening (i.e. [...]
FlixChatter Review – Captain America: The First Avenger
Posted in Flix Reviews, tagged Captain America review, Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans Captain America, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving Red Skull, Joe Johnston Captain America, movies, reviews, Richard Armitage on July 26, 2011 | 50 Comments »
This review is courtesy of Ivan Maramis… a.k.a. ze blogger’s hubby When it was first announced that Captain America would be made into the big screen, I thought it was such a preposterous proposition. I know of the comic and am familiar enough to sum it up in a :30 second elevator pitch, but never [...]
Comic-con Day 2: The amazing SONY panels at Hall H
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged movies, Andrew Garfield Emma Stone Amazing Spider-man, San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Comic Con 2011 Friday Hall H lineup, Comic-con 2011 highlights, 30 Minutes or Less Aziz Ansari Jesse Eisenberg, Total Recall remake panel, Colin Farrell Total Recall remake, The Amazing Spider-man panel on July 25, 2011 | 28 Comments »
It was really a great day to be at Hall H… I somehow felt that when I was waiting in line and talking to people whilst doing so. But little did I know it was going to be amazing. As you’ve read on Part I of the Friday coverage, by the time Fright Night panel [...]
Comic-con Day 2: A day in the life inside the coveted Hall H – Part I
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged movies, Michael Fassbender, San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Peter Jackson Steven Spielberg Tintin panel, Steven Soderbergh Haywire, John Cusack Luke Evans The Raven, Gina Carano Haywire, Comic-con 2011 highlights, Fright Night remake Colin Farrell on July 25, 2011 | 33 Comments »
Hello everybody! Pardon the late updates of my second (and last) day at Comic-con. I was hoping to be able to blog Friday night when I came back home but it was already late and our flight was super early on Saturday morning, so it just wasn’t possible. I only had time to take a [...]
My first day at Comic-Con… and meeting Captain America!
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Captain America Comic-Con signing, Captain America screening, Chris Evans Comic-con 2011, Chris Evans signing Captain America, Comic-Con, Marvel movies, movies, San Diego Comic-Con 2011, The Avengers booth comic-con 2011, The Avengers Marvel on July 22, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Hello there friends, just a quick update from my first day at San Diego Comic-Con. I’m going to keep this brief as we just got back to our hotel at around 11 and we’re exhausted. But I just wanna give a quick update as promised. Pardon the lack of our own photos as we haven’t [...]
Captain America signing @ Comic-Con on Thursday!
Posted in Flix News, Random Thoughts, tagged Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans Captain America, Comic-Con, movies, San Diego Comic-Con 2011, The Avengers signing comic-con on July 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Hi everyone! Greetings from California! We’re en route to San Diego this morning and boy, I’m already so excited for my comic-con debut tomorrow! Well, sounds like Marvel ain’t abandoning comic-con after all, as I just saw this exciting news today just before I went to bed last nite: Per SuperheroHype, Marvel announced the following [...]
Guest Post: An in-depth look at Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Posted in Flix Reviews, tagged Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, movies, movies set in California, Quotes from Tequila Sunrise, reviews, Robert Towne, Tequila Sunrise, Tequila Sunrise review, Tequila Sunrise soundtrack on July 19, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Special thanks to Michael Alatorre – the sharp-witted blogger of It Rains … You Get Wet (even his blog name is clever!) » Follow Michael on Twitter … Every summer I make it a point to watch one of my favorite movies, Robert Towne‘s Tequila Sunrise. And, this year was no exception. Released in 1988, [...]
Guest Post: Great Director & Editor Combos
Posted in The Flix List, tagged best director/film editor combo, famous film editors, Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, movies, Quentin Tarantino and Sally Manke, Steven Spielberg and Michael Kahn, Terrence Malick and Billy Weber, Terrence Malick Thin Red Line on July 18, 2011 | 57 Comments »
As a film fanatic, I not only pay attention to the stars but also to the people behind the scenes. But usually the directors and writers will get all the attention when it comes to film being a success or failure. So I would like to write about the mostly unseen people in the film [...]








