Guest Post: An in-depth look at Tequila Sunrise (1988)

Special thanks to Michael Alatorre – the sharp-witted blogger of It Rains ... You Get Wet (even his blog name is clever!) » Follow Michael on Twitter ... Every summer I make it a point to watch one of my favorite movies, Robert Towne's Tequila Sunrise. And, this year was no exception. Released in 1988, …

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Everyone’s a Critic: Cars 2 and Fish Tank

Hi everyone! Welcome to another edition of Everyone's a Critic! Pardon my lack of reviews this week and the next as I'm quite busy planning/preparing for our California trip next week, yes, less than two weeks away until Comic Con! 😀 Anyway, check out the reviews below courtesy of my good friends Vince C. and …

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Weekend Roundup: ‘Black Swan’ review

Summer is certainly a busy month and this past weekend was another one jam-packed w/ activities. Last weekend I mentioned about the Fill Their Plate Run 5K/10K, well this Saturday morning my friends and I volunteered at a meal-packing event for Kids Against Hunger, a humanitarian food-aid organization which mission is to significantly reduce the …

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Guest Post – ‘X-Men: First Class’ Review

[WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS] Despite my high expectations and fear of being disappointed, I really liked X-Men: First Class. Director Matthew Vaughn did serve up the Bond movie/political thriller cocktail that he promised, and, contrary to his own statement, there is no sappy love song to gum up the works [rtm's note: see comment in this …

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Weekend Roundup and The Way Back review

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope everyone's had a lovely weekend. I definitely enjoyed my 3-day weekend though it sure went by real fast. I took a much-needed break from my computer which including blogging and reading other people's blogs, though I had planned on seeing more movies but only managed to see two of them. One …

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Weekend Roundup: Five Minutes of Heaven and JJ Abram’s Star Trek

I hope y'all had a lovely and storm-free (weather or otherwise) weekend. Boy, the weather's been strange this weekend, it couldn't decide whether it wants to be rainy or sunny, so it alternated back and forth practically every half an hour! There's even some strong storms hitting our neck of the woods, even a tornado …

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GUEST POST – Classic Flix Review: Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932)

I was channel surfing last weekend and came upon this scene in the middle of a Tarzan movie on TCM that made me stop in my tracks: ... Tarzan movies were usual fare on a Saturday morning when I was a kid, but the scene where Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) suddenly becomes enamored with her jungle-man captor shed a whole …

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