The Flix List – Valentine Edition: 10 Romantic Comedies I LOVE

It's Valentine's Day eve! Guys, did you order your flowers yet? 😀 Romantic comedies or rom-com for short, gets a bad rep these days. Obviously a lot of them deserve it, i.e. When in Rome, Leap Year, The Ugly Truth, etc. which can't even be included in the 'so bad it's good' category. Alas, year …

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The Flix List – Birthday Edition: Fave movies from each decade I’ve lived through

Happy Friday, everyone! Today is my birthday. Apparently I share my b'day with quite a few famous people: Thomas Alva Edison, Eva Gabor, Burt Reynolds, the late Leslie Nielsen, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Palin, Carey Lowell, Jennifer Aniston and um, Taylor Lautner. Hmmm, an eclectic group, wouldn't you say? Just for fun I thought I'd list …

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THIS JUST IN! X-Men: First Class trailer is finally here!

I've had the X-Men Facebook page up all day long but it's been a hectic day filled w/ meetings. But when I hit refresh a few minutes ago, voila!! You already know how much I've been anticipating this and was hoping this was released during the Superbowl. But now it's finally here! I don't want to …

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Question of the Week: What are your favorite Criterion Collection films?

By Ted Saydalavong The Criterion Collection is a video-distribution company selling "important classic and contemporary films" to cinema lovers everywhere. It was founded back in 1984 and they only released their films on Laser Disc (remember those?) back when VHS was the king in home video market. Then later they released their films on DVD when …

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EVERYONE’S A CRITIC: Life as We Know It, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Thin Red Line

It's been almost a year since I had an Everyone's a Critic post! I shall try to have this a bit more regular, perhaps more of a quarterly feature on this blog. Special thanks to Mike Beery (check out Mike's contributor page), my Twi-mom friend Marianne Lemire, and FC's frequent guest blogger Ted S. for …

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500 Posts: THANK YOU for your readership!

I just realized this blog has passed its 500th post mark yesterday! I was going to do something special last night but because of my dead BlackBerry fiasco, I wasn't able to write anything. But I still want to commemorate this blog milestone by THANKING YOU, all my readers and bloggie friends who've made blogging …

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Weekend Roundup: Trailers aired during SuperBowl, San Diego Comic Con, etc.

Did you watch the big game? Well, the Packers won the SuperBowl, congrats to Aaron Rogers & his team, seems like they had it from the start. I was in front of the tv but not exactly watching the game, I was downstairs keeping my hubby company mostly to watch the trailers and commercials. As …

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