Five for the Fifth: February 2013 Edition

Hello folks, welcome to the second 2013 edition of Five for the Fifth!! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. 1. Well, since …

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Weekend Roundup: Side by Side Documentary Review

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope y'all had a nice weekend. I skipped the cinema again this weekend as it's quite a hectic one with my hubby Ivan's triathlon on Saturday morning and we also had people over for dinner this weekend. But Friday night we had a chance to check out the documentary we've been wanting …

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TAKE TWO: How would these films turn out had these directors made them?

Many of us who follows Hollywood knows that a film goes through several writing stages before it hits the big screen; we also know that many directors were involved in this process, most of the time these directors decided to leave the project on their own terms or get fired by the studio. Then the …

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007 Chatter: Seven directors wishlist for the next Bond movie

In anticipation for Bond 23, a.k.a. Skyfall coming on November 9th, 2012, Ted and I are starting a new monthly series called 007 CHATTER... look for it sometime in the first week of each month. ... I've also added a new category for this, so click on 007 Chatter on the category drop-down menu for …

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Six Un-produced Scripts I’d Love to See On the Big Screen

Most of us who follows Hollywood knows that there are many scripts movie studios refused to turn into films. For whatever reasons the executives just didn't believe in any of these scripts but of course they had no problem greenlighting several bad scripts each year. But that's how the business works, if the scripts aren't …

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The Flix List: Four Best Film ‘Making-Of’ Documentaries

As a film lover and also a filmmaker wannabe, I love watching behind scenes stuff. It's probably the closest thing for anyone to see what's it like to be part of a film crew. Spike Lee once said in an interview, 'had DVD existed when he was younger, he probably would never attended film school.' …

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The Flix List: Seven Great Directors Working in Hollywood Today

A while back I wrote about hack directors working in Hollywood. Well, to balance things out, now how about some of the great ones who are still churning out some great films. I’ll also list some of their upcoming projects that I’m looking forward to see on the big screen. (rtm's note: also check out …

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