Trailer Spotlight: British Crime Thriller ‘All Things To All Men’

Wahoo!!! Thanks to my friend Stella over at Byrneholics for the tip. This is THE trailer I've been waiting for, even though there's not a confirmed US release date yet for this movie. Though for my lucky UK friends, this movie opens on April 5. For those who missed my spotlight post for this crime …

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New Releases Reviews: A Good Day to Die Hard and Beautiful Creatures

Happy President's Day! I'm blessed that I get a day off today, woo hoo. Nobody likes Mondays so it's always nice to get Monday off 😀 I'll reserve my weekend roundup until tomorrow, but instead I've got a couple of new release movies for you. Perhaps those of you who get today off are considering …

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Motifs in Cinema Project: Love (and/or Marriage)

I was recently asked by Andrew Kendall at Encore Entertainment to contribute a post for the Motifs in Cinema blogging project. 2012, a multi-site themed blogging projects of 11 writers looking at 11 motifs from films last year. When Andrew emailed me the topics for the Motifs in Cinema Project, for some reason I gravitated …

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Music Break: The Artist’s Waltz for Peppy

Happy Friday everybody. Hope y'all had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday. I listen to Classical MPR radio on my commute to work and yesterday morning there were a lot of Valentine dedications and they're playing some beautiful, sweeping waltzes. One of them is Waltz for Peppy from the gorgeous soundtrack of The Artist. Oh I …

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Valentine Special: Spotlight on 14 Favorite Movie Couples

Ahhh... it's Valentine's Day. Yes, it's perhaps a commercial birthday where flower and candy shops get to guilt people to get something nice for their significant other. I actually told my hubby not to get me flowers this year and instead, we'd get something nice for BOTH of us to enjoy. It is, after all, …

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5 Films That Are Better Than the Books They Are Based On

Every time Hollywood studios turn popular books into films, most fans of the books will always coin the term “The book is better”. I’m quite sure fans of The Hobbit and Jack Reacher books are already saying that. Most of the time they’re right, as an avid reader myself, I used that term many times …

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Five Memorable Movie Birthday Scenes to celebrate my big day

Hello friends! Today happens to be my birthday, so I'm taking today off from work as part of my birthday present to myself 😀 A few years back, I chose a birthday-related movie to mark the occasion, which was David Fincher's excellent but underrated thriller The Game. I highly recommend that if you haven't seen …

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