DVD Pick: State of Play

Everything about this movie, from the premise, cast and even the poster screamed 'smart, riveting thriller.' The nice thing is, it lives up to my expectation, and then some. This is Russell Crowe's strongest performance since The Insider 10 years ago. Of course I loved him in Gladiator, but it's his amazingly credible role as …

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LAC and Clash of the Titans Featurettes

I love behind-the-scenes stuff, those are almost as much fun as the movie itself. It's also a great marketing tool that big studios are obviously aware of. That's why Law Abiding Citizen director's uses Twitter to send links to making-of videos, including the latest one on the scoring session with composer Brian Tyler: If you …

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My Top 5 Favorite Gerard Butler Roles

This post that's been on my draft folder for a while, but today seems as timely as ever for five reasons: IMDB featured him on its Character Spotlight section on the main page on Thursday, he was on Kimmel last Friday, his actioner flick GAMER just opened this weekend, and today EW's PopWatch blog just …

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DVD Pick: The TV Set

With the workplace comedy Extract opening today, I somehow feel like bringing up this movie I saw quite a while ago. It's got one of the most fitting and clever tagline: "A place where dreams are canceled." The TV Set, as it's aptly named, is a satire about the journey of a TV pilot as …

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One more week until TIFF 2009

The Playlist blog has been my source of all things TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), and as I was browsing their site, I happen to learn a couple of new trivia that movie geeks like me gobble up with gusto. Well first, I didn't realize that Daniel Day-Lewis' wife is the daughter of Arthur Miller …

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Flixchatter’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2010

Please note I've already revised this list in October, check it out here. IMDB's Acura Power of Film listed their top 10 most anticipated films of 2010 a while ago, which seemed too early at the time to start thinking about next year. They've since replaced the page with something else so I don't have …

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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, …

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