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10 Reasons why I think The Avengers rocks

Posted in Flix Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2012 | 74 Comments »

How big of a smash hit is The Avengers? Certainly a hulking big one with over $200 mil domestic opening weekend. That number already broke the record of the final Harry Potter film ($169 mil) released last year, and combined with the international earnings, it brought the total worldwide haul to $641.8 million in barely [...]

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Five for the Fifth: May 2012 Edition

Posted in Five for the Fifth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2012 | 48 Comments »

Hello folks, welcome to the May 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. So let’s get [...]

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Tube Watch: Bitten by the BBC bug – Sherlock & Spooks

Posted in Tube Watch, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2012 | 47 Comments »

Happy Friday all!  I’m afraid it’s going to be a short post today as I’m getting ready to post this month’s Five for the Fifth for tomorrow. I’ve clearly been bitten by the BBC TV bug as I’m so addicted to both these shows! Those who’ve seen at least one episode of either one of these would [...]

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A ‘sequel’ I actually want to see: District 9 follow-up ELYSIUM

Posted in Flix News, Upcoming Flix, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 2, 2012 | 44 Comments »

One of my favorite films of the last decade was the low-budget sci-fi movie District 9. In my review, I said that it’s such a distinctly moving, poignant and provocative film that makes you ponder long after the end credits roll. Not long after I saw the film, there’s immediate buzz for an inevitable sequel, which I [...]

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Ten awesome things about The Dark Knight Rises trailer 3

Posted in Flix Trailers, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2012 | 33 Comments »

I’m sure everyone’s seen this trailer by now, several times over perhaps? Well I don’t blame you, I have seen it about seven times already and I have to restrain myself from being overly-excited about this movie. My friend Matthew from The Movie Mash tweeted this earlier today: Tonight I finally get to see THE [...]

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Monthly Roundup: April Movie Watching Recap

Posted in Weekend Roundup, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2012 | 31 Comments »

Happy May Day folks! April certainly flew by amazingly quick, I feel like I had just done this monthly round up not that long ago and now it’s time for another update! Well, this month is a busy one blogging one. Here are a few blogging events I hosted as well as took part in, [...]

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Wet Blog-a-thon: Ten Indelible Rain/Wet Scenes

Posted in Blog Events, The Flix List, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2012 | 67 Comments »

Rain just makes everything so much more dramatic in movies… so when I saw this Wet Blog-a-thon open invitation at Andrew’s blog, I knew I just had to take part. Of course the first thing that came to mind is something romantic, which is what I did a couple of years ago with the Jane [...]

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The Avengers Initiative: Profile on Agent Phil Coulson

Posted in Blog Events, Featured Actor/Director, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 29, 2012 | 16 Comments »

Happy Sunday all! It’s The Avengers Week over at The Focused Filmographer blog as part of the countdown to the Marvel movie’s US release. My pal Terrence asked me to participate in The Avengers Initiative, so today I present you the profile on the least likely hero of all — but certainly just as valiant — the S.H.I.E.L.D. [...]

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Everybody’s Chattin’ … and the Bond casting poll update

Posted in Everybody's Chattin', tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 26, 2012 | 34 Comments »

HAPPY FRIDAY, all!  Man, I just realized I haven’t done an Everybody’s Chattin’ post in ages. As you can tell, I’m not big on structure or keeping up w/ series like my blog friends [you know who you are ] but I promise I’ll keep this post more regularly from now on. Now, before I [...]

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Classic Flix Review: The French Connection (1971)

Posted in Classic Flix, Flix Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 26, 2012 | 36 Comments »

Greetings all and sundry! I am going to take a well deserved respite from Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck and take a few moments to wax poetic and nostalgic about a film that solidly grabbed my attention more than forty years ago. One that firmly anchored the concept of the ‘Partner Film’. Which is very [...]

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