MGM filed bankruptcy: What are your five favorite MGM movies?

It shouldn't come as a surprise to everyone that MGM finally filed Chapter 11 yesterday after all the money troubles the studio has been in. Back in July, I lamented about the next 007 film being canceled as a result of MGM's financial woes. According to The Wrap, last week MGM's creditors approved a plan …

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Random Thoughts: Where have these once-famous actresses gone?

Upon hearing this news from CinemaBlend that Meg Ryan is cast along with John Lithgow in a Crash-eque drama, it dawned on me how long I haven't seen her in ages. The last movie I saw her in was Kate & Leopold which was nearly a decade ago! I did see her in the trailer …

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The Flix List: Five notable female singers who (suprisingly) can act

A Whitney Houston song came on the other day on my way home from work. Though the song wasn't from The Bodyguard, it got me thinking about how much I liked that movie. Kind of like Notting Hill, The Bodyguard tells the story of a major star falling for an ordinary fella, though it didn't …

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15 Directors Meme

I got tagged by film connoisseur Peter Eramo Jr. over at Magic Lantern Film to list 15 directors that have shaped the way I look at motion pictures. These are auteurs whose work I admire, even if I don't necessarily go and see every single one of their films. Some of their work have defined …

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Just for fun: Top Five Movie Tango Scenes

My friend took me to a Zumba class last night for the first time, it's a cardio class fused with Latin and International music and dance moves. I can't dance worth a damn so I usually stick with more of a card kickboxing type of classes but I found Zumba to be a lot of …

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Five Notable Ensemble-Cast Movies in the Last Decade

Well, whaddayaknow, Takers, the movie that was never on my radar is the box office winner this weekend. The first time I learned this movie existed was when seemingly the entire movie blogosphere cried foul over how bad their poster were. There's bad, and then there's BAD Photoshop job, and this one was beyond dreadful. Ok, …

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Films That Define Us Blog-a-Thon

Marc from Go-See-Talk invited a bunch of movie bloggers to take a trip down memory lane to list movies that 'define' our taste in movies. The films in question are those I saw at a young age and the ones I constantly refer back to as 'classics.' Not having grown up in America, I didn't …

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