I quite like Guy Ritchie's frenetic style. Most of his films have a cool vibe and I think his best work is when he tackles the London underworld. His humorous gangster movies always feature a great cast and witty dialog, and Rocknrolla is no different. His movies aren't for everyone though, I remember dragging some …
Continue reading Music Break & Scenes Spotlight: Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla
I'm set for an advanced screening of the white house actioner Olympus Has Fallen tomorrow. Surely you've seen the pretty aggressive promos of that one all over the place. Interestingly enough, the marketing for the movie has been putting the White House itself as the main STAR of the film. I mean there are some …
Continue reading Question of the Week: What’s your favorite White House movie scene?
[sigh] I didn't really want to write this letter. Not only because I had done it once before when The Bounty Hunter came out, but I was quite anticipating Playing For Keeps for a while. I was thrilled when I got and advanced screening invite on the same day as The Hobbit (yay!) right before …
Continue reading Playing for Keeps Review… (a.k.a. my Open Letter to Gerry Butler)
Thanks to Mettel Ray for starting this Movie Alphabet as part of her 400th Blog Post celebration! Her original list consists of movies, directors, actors and actresses, but to switch things up, I'd like to just focus on actors and directors for my list as I've done the film version in this Cinematic Alphabet a …
Continue reading My Movie Alphabet Blogathon – Actors/Directors Edition
Today I truly appreciate the simple things in life. Well not that I wouldn't any other day but especially so the past couple of days after reading all the news and weather updates on the Frankenstorm that is Hurricane Sandy. The fact that I can drive peacefully on the road without being pounded by crazy …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup – Indiana Jones, BBC’s Sherlock + Chasing Mavericks Review
Happy Friday everyone! Well, Winter has definitely arrived here in Minnesota. We've got a sprinkle of the dreaded 's' word yesterday... yep, snow! But fortunately it was just a snow mix so it didn't stick much at all, in fact, on my way home there's barely a trace of it. Different story if you live …
Now, there are few prequels made that actually worked. In fact, I could only think of two that I actually like: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and X-Men: First Class. And The Hobbit is poised to join the scarce number of prequels people anticipated most, but generally speaking, few prequels—or sequels, for that …
Continue reading The [Untouchables] prequel I actually would LOVE to see: Capone Rising
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