Highest 2 Lowest marks the fifth time Denzel Washington and Spike Lee have teamed up. This time, Lee decided to reinterpret Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 procedural thriller High and Low, which was based on Ed McBain's novel, King’s Ransom. Lee shifts the focus from a Tokyo shoe executive to a music mogul in modern-day NYC. The …
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FlixChatter’s JANUARY 2025 Viewing Recap + Mini Reviews + Movie of the Month
Wow, the first month of 2025 has come and gone! I hope your January has been good for you. I am grateful that work-wise things have been good despite a major shift last December, and that my mother-in-law's open heart surgery went well (praise God!). One of my New Year resolutions (well perhaps the only …
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Law Abiding Citizen scoring session
F. Gary Gray, LAC's director, keeps his fans up-to-date on his projects via Twitter, God bless him. He just posted this scoring session with composer Brian Tyler recently. Tyler's resume is pretty massive, he's done a lot of action movie scores such as Fast and Furious, Constantine, Eagle Eye, among others. Gray wanted a retro, …
Art&Copy Documentary – Creativity can solve anything
Hate advertising? Make better ads. – that's director Doug Pray's statement on its official site. As an interface designer who once yearned to be in advertising, this is absolutely fascinating. Lee Clow, George Lois, Hal Riney, these are advertising rock-stars whose career everybody in my mass comm class drool over. It's been said that Lois …
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Daniel Day Lewis’ new musical NINE
Nine seems to be the lucky number in Hollywood this year. There's that recent sci-fi indie-blockbuster set in South Africa, the animated feature film voiced by Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly set in post-apocalyptic world, and just in time for Thanksgiving, there's NINE the musical! The description on Apple trailers' page says: NINE is a …
This Just In: INCEPTION teaser trailer
Goodness, I'm getting buzz-overload here with all these sci-fi stuff... but hey I'm not complaining =) First there's District 9, then Avatar, and now, all the mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's Inception just got a potent boost thanks to the awesome teaser trailer that's just released about an hour ago. The bootleg got leaked over the …
Oldies but goodies? High Fidelity
TGIF, folks! Just a few more hours before the workweek is over and I tell you three things I'm excited about this weekend: 1. My BFF is returning from Indo tomorrow after being home for over a month! 2. The AVATAR in 3D free-screening I'll be seeing tonight at 7 – with sincere hope it'll …
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