I was wondering the other day if it's possible to find a review of this movie that does not mention the words Die Hard. Seems that the comparison is inevitable and it seems that Olympus Has Fallen is begging for a comparison. In fact, perhaps it's an homage to that action franchise, as it's more …
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Question of the Week: What’s your favorite White House movie scene?
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 …
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Weekend Roundup: The Intouchables Review
Happy Tuesday! Hope y'all had a great St. Patrick's Day weekend. Did you see any Irish film? I was thinking of watching Leap Year which takes place in Ireland after seeing Matthew Goode in Stoker, but maybe next time. Well, it ends up being a foreign-cinema weekend for me with two excellent films from France …
FlixChatter Review: Stoker
Though this film was not on my radar until a few months ago, I was quite intrigued when I first saw the trailer. If you haven't seen this yet though, I'd say stay away from the latest trailer. As you've perhaps read my Asian directors post, this is Chan-Wook Park's English language debut. It's not …
Music Break: Life Of Pi Soundtrack
Ang Lee's beautifully-made Life of Pi's released on Blu-ray/DVD this week, and since I had just been talking about Asian directors, might as well feature his film on today's music break. Canadian Composer Mychael Danna has won a Golden Globe and Oscar for his astounding soundtrack work for this film. This is Danna's third collaboration …
Musings on Asian directors… why so few of them thrive in Hollywood?
I had just seen STOKER on Tuesday night, which inspires me to write about this post. Now, a lot of you know I was born in South East Asia but I moved to the US to go to college and has been staying here since. I feel like I need to preface this article by …
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A trio of casting news I’m excited about: Karl Urban, Rebecca Hall & Alessandro Nivola
Happy Midweek all! I've got another director-related post nearly ready to go, but I thought I'd share a trio of casting news I heard this week that I'm excited about, all involving three talented underrated actors I'd love to see getting more work. So here goes. Karl Urban's cast in JJ Abrams' futuristic drama pilot …
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