Brand new Law Abiding Citizen clip – Get Down

Thanks to director F. Gary Gray for the info via Twitter. To those who haven't heard about LAC — sheesh, where have you been? =) — here's the gist: An everyday guy (Clyde) decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. His target: The district attorney …

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Pondering the latest remakes of the Brontë sisters’ novels

I recently saw the trailer for Bright Star (see trailer below), which is about the poet John Keats and his love and poetic inspiration Fanny Brawne. It looks pretty good, especially the fact that it's based on a true story. Being a fan of period pieces — with Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility being my …

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Rest in Peace, Patrick Swayze

I just heard about Patrick Swayze's death as I was having dinner with my hubby. When he said, did Patrick Swayze died? I immediately said, no, it was a bunch of hoax, as false reports were circulating last May of his demise. But this time, it was real, he did pass away after battling pancreatic …

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Thank you IMDB for featuring my post!

Just one day shy of its 3-month anniversary, FlixChatter hit a breakthrough today as it's featured on IMDB hit list. I submitted it about a couple of weeks ago and pretty much forgot about it, I mean, what are the chances it'd ever get noticed amongst hundreds of submission on that mother lode of all …

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Casting News – Flixchatter Highlights (Part 2)

Mornin' folks! Hope y'all had a nice long Labor day weekend. I certainly did as my mother in-law and her husband were in town and we had a blast sight-seeing around town and eating fabulous food. Didn't get to see any flick though, well not at the cinema anyway. But we did rent the excellent …

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DVD Pick: The TV Set

With the workplace comedy Extract opening today, I somehow feel like bringing up this movie I saw quite a while ago. It's got one of the most fitting and clever tagline: "A place where dreams are canceled." The TV Set, as it's aptly named, is a satire about the journey of a TV pilot as …

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One more week until TIFF 2009

The Playlist blog has been my source of all things TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), and as I was browsing their site, I happen to learn a couple of new trivia that movie geeks like me gobble up with gusto. Well first, I didn't realize that Daniel Day-Lewis' wife is the daughter of Arthur Miller …

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