Spotlights on upcoming movies
Upon my weekly perusing of Apple trailers page, its poster graphic caught my eye. Well, partly because it was featured pretty large on the top of the page, and the names Denzel Washington & Gary Oldman are enough to make me click on it. Well, if trailers usually reveal the best parts of a movie …
Continue reading Conspicuous Trailer of the Week: The Book of Eli
I brought up the remake of Clash of the Titans a couple of weeks ago, and I just learned recently that Hollywood is releasing a very similar genre flick called War of the Gods at around the same time next year. Clash will be out first in Spring, and War in late Summer/early Fall. (See …
Continue reading Battle of the Greek Mythologies: Theseus vs. Perseus
One of the Special Presentations announced at TIFF is the new Edward Norton comedy Leaves of Grass where he plays an identical twins (one a Philosophy professor, the other a small-town pot grower). If anybody can pull this off, it'd be Norton. The film is produced and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, last seen in …
Continue reading Seeing double? Ed Norton plays identical twins in Leaves of Grass
Luc Besson's new spy thriller's got a super cool looking teaser poster! It's so clever in its simplicity, yet so beautiful and elegant I can't take my eyes off it! The Eiffel tower icon is sort of cliche in a way but I don't mind it at all here, it's a bit James Bond-y. Could be …
Continue reading Nifty flix teaser poster: From Paris with Love
For some it's watching Sex & the City or Entourage reruns, but for moi, one of my guilty pleasures is watching trailers. My are they fun, most are certainly better than the flix themselves. After watching the pointless and rather insipid Spread (ok so Ashton is hot, what else is new), I was ready for …
Continue reading Conspicuous Trailer of the Week – The Informant!
The Must-See list in the order of release date: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Who could resist that pathetic squirrel still on the hunt for his beloved acorn? I couldn't stop laughing from the moment that thing came on the screen. There's possible romance for this little guy as well – hilarious mayhem can't …
Continue reading Flixchatter’s Must-See Flix for the rest of ’09
Clash of the Titans Remake – thrusting into theaters March 2010 I came across a pic of Gladiator-like Perseus wielding his sword the other day, and it piqued my interest. My hubby Ivan's a big fan of the original movie with Harry Hamlin, which basically tells the classic Greek mythology of the hero Perseus who …
Continue reading Hollywood’s love affair with ‘swords & sandals’ flix
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