Memorial Weekend came a bit early this year, but hey, a three-day weekend is ALWAYS welcome. It's been a nice, mellow weekend for me, giving me a chance to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in a while. I also got a chance to finally see Mad Max: Fury Road and well, here's …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: Quick thoughts on Mad Max: Fury Road + Cannes 2015
It took over ten years for Mad Max to return to the big screen, originally set to hit theaters back in summer of 2004 and Mel Gibson was set to reprise his iconic role. Unfortunately, the filmmakers ran into some troubles securing locations and budget and the film was put on hold. 11 years later, …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Happy Thursday everybody! I'm going to hit two birds with one stone today in combining two post *series* in one. Well, inspired by my recent viewing of Transformers 4 and some other news, the topic this week is: Hollywood Movie Franchises. Ok, so let's start with some of my favorite posts from the past couple …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin’ & Question of the Week on Movie Franchises
In August last year, I posted this Random Question: What movie you've seen most often on the big screen as I was inspired by my colleague who saw Aliens twelve times on the big screen. Well, now he's here to tell us whether Prometheus lives up to his lofty expectations. Review by Phil Thompson Full …
Continue reading Guest Review: Prometheus – from a die-hard ALIENS fan
Hope your first June weekend was a good one, folks. I finally made my way to the cinema since The Avengers a month ago. That movie is still box office gold as it still place third this weekend with over $20 mil, so it's overall worldwide gross now stands at 1.3 Billion, wow, hulk smash …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: Snow White and the Huntsman review
The battle of the Snow Whites is full on as Mirror, Mirror is scheduled to be released next Friday March 30 in the US. It's unlikely I'll be seeing that on the big screen but this one, heck yes! I was already sold by the first trailer, yes despite Kristen Stewart's casting, but this new, …
A few months ago, I compared the two upcoming Snow White adaptations. One is now called Mirror, Mirror, directed by the visual maestro Tarsem (whose film Immortals is out this Friday) and the other one is by first-time director Rupert Sanders. I've said before that I'm more interested in the Tarsem's version, and as you …
Continue reading Conspicuous Poster & Trailer of the Week: Snow White & The Huntsman
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