My Movie Year: The Year 2000

Thanks to Andy for inviting me to My Movie Year blog-a-thon. This is the second time I've participated in Fandango Groovers' blog event since the massively popular Desert Island DVDs. Below is the simple rule for the post: All you have to do is pick your favourite year for movies and back I up with …

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Most Anticipated 2012 Movies – Part II (April – June)

The first week of March has come and gone, so it's time for Part II of this year's most-anticipated flicks. Can you believe it I still haven't seen Coriolanus from my Part I which had been screening all over the world but here in Minnesota!! And one of the movies I listed under March, Gerry …

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Famous Actors Screen Tests: Every star has to start somewhere

One of the marketing campaigns my creative team is working on right now involve some serial web-isodes. I missed the whole audition process as I took a day off on Monday, but on my co-workers' desk the next day I saw a stack of actors' resumes and head-shots that he's currently sorting through. It kind …

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Valentine Special – 59 Reasons I LOVE Roman Holiday!

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! May love – romantic or otherwise – fill your heart and put a smile on your face. Well, a movie that always makes me smile as well as tear up with heartache and joy at the same time is none other than William Wyler's 1953 masterpiece rom-com Roman Holiday. And since …

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A mini tribute to one of the greatest singers of all time… RIP Whitney Houston

My heart is heavy today... I just heard about Whitney's death this morning as I didn't tune in to the news all day yesterday. I know that BAFTA is going on tonight and I was thinking of blogging about that but I felt like paying tribute to one of my all time favorite singers. Another …

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Music Break: Top 10 Favorite John Williams Scores

I've been meaning to write a tribute for one of my favorite composers for a while and since February 8th is his 80th Birthday, it seems like a good a time as any. As I've mentioned several times on my blog, my two all time favorite music genres are classical and movie soundtracks, so naturally …

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Retro Friday – Why I LOVE The Rocketeer

A few days ago, the Blu-ray version of The Rocketeer arrived in the mail. I've been waiting for this movie for so long and finally Disney released the BD on it's 20th Anniversary. I'm dismayed that there are NO special features whatsoever which is just so lame, I mean to call it a '20th Anniversary …

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