English actor Andy Serkis turns 47 today. Best known for playing the computer-generated character Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he was easily the hardest working actor on the set due to the complexity of the creative process of bringing Gollum to the screen. According to IMDb, Serkis spent almost two years in …
Month: April 2011
Weekend Roundup: Local Film Festival News & Movies I watched
It was quite a busy weekend I just had, dampened a bit by a coating of snow on the ground Saturday morning. Our local weatherman Paul Douglas aptly called it groan-worthy, and we now have a Winter alert with possible 3-5 inches of snow in the next 36 hours! Heh, so much for Spring 😦 …
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The Flix List: 15 favorite period drama heroes – Part II
Welcome to Part II of the list. As I said in the intro of Part I, this post is a collaboration with my Twitter pal and fellow period drama enthusiast Paula G. Now here are the other seven great romantic heroes that make us swoon, and please vote for your fave at the end of the …
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The Flix List: 15 favorite period drama heroes – Part I
As a huge fan of period dramas, I've been wanting to make up this list for quite some time. To double the fun, I invited my Twitter pal and fellow period drama enthusiast Paula G. to collaborate with me on this one and we came up with no less than 15 of our favorite romantic …
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A prelude to a post…
Allow me to indulge in my hopeless romantic side and unabashedly girly side of me... It's been said that I'm not 'girly' enough as far as my movie choices go and in fact, my friend Novroz sent me a link via Twitter to a Gender Analyzer site and based on the content of my site, they …
Flix Casting News: Rufus Sewell, Christian Bale & James McAvoy
It's been ages since I posted a news post but today I learned three exciting casting news of three of my favorite actors I'd like to share with you all. Rufus Sewell cast in Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Thanks to my pal Castor who tipped me about this news yesterday. This is awesome news! My …
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Weekend Roundup: HANNA review
I finally venture out into the theater after about a month of a lot of home cinema viewing. All the great reviews on HANNA got me really curious to check it out on opening weekend. It wasn't powerful enough to defeat HOP in the box office, but managed to finish second with $12.4 million, which …
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