Lists for the listaholic anonymous amongst us, top ten or otherwise
This post has been in my draft folder for a while... originally I wanted to post right after award season is over. Now Oscar is already behind us for nearly a month (boy, I kinda forgot about it already), so I better not procrastinate any longer. This post will be divided into two parts, Part …
Continue reading FlixChatter’s Most Anticipated 2011 Movies – Part I
Every year, dozens and dozens of movies are made based on literary works, be it a fiction, non-fiction, short story, children's book, what have you. Even Wikipedia has to break it down to multiple subcategories to list them all. I guess the mindset in Hollywood is that if the book is successful, it could mean …
Continue reading The Flix List: Ten books we wish to see adapted to the big screen
It's Valentine's Day eve! Guys, did you order your flowers yet? 😀 Romantic comedies or rom-com for short, gets a bad rep these days. Obviously a lot of them deserve it, i.e. When in Rome, Leap Year, The Ugly Truth, etc. which can't even be included in the 'so bad it's good' category. Alas, year …
Continue reading The Flix List – Valentine Edition: 10 Romantic Comedies I LOVE
Happy Friday, everyone! Today is my birthday. Apparently I share my b'day with quite a few famous people: Thomas Alva Edison, Eva Gabor, Burt Reynolds, the late Leslie Nielsen, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Palin, Carey Lowell, Jennifer Aniston and um, Taylor Lautner. Hmmm, an eclectic group, wouldn't you say? Just for fun I thought I'd list …
Continue reading The Flix List – Birthday Edition: Fave movies from each decade I’ve lived through
By Ted Saydalavong The Criterion Collection is a video-distribution company selling "important classic and contemporary films" to cinema lovers everywhere. It was founded back in 1984 and they only released their films on Laser Disc (remember those?) back when VHS was the king in home video market. Then later they released their films on DVD when …
Continue reading Question of the Week: What are your favorite Criterion Collection films?
It's been fun reading all the Bond posts spearheaded by ParagraphFilmReviews' James Bond January event. A few of my blog friends Marc, Ross and Darren are participating... props to all of 'em for saying nice things about my favorite Bond 😀 But it's this particular post that inspire me to write this post... "Sean Bean …
Continue reading Question of the Week: Which actor(s) would you like to see as Bond villain?
By Ted Saydalavong So what is the true definition of a hack? We hear that a lot from film critics and fans alike. Well to me, a hack is someone who works on projects solely for financial reasons, rather than creative reasons. It is not about a filmmaker who is simply bad, well let me …
Continue reading GUEST POST: The Flix List – Six hack directors working in Hollywood today
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