Is this film necessary? It's an inescapable question that plagues this reboot from the start, as it's only a decade ago the first Spider-man film came to the big screen. When the reboot was announced a couple of years ago, the last film of the Sam Raimi Spidey trilogy was only three years old! Yet …
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Five for the Fifth: July 2012 Edition
Hello folks, it's time for the July 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. So let's …
4th of July Music Break: Captain America End Title Sequence
Happy Fourth of July to my American friends! Hope you get today's off from work and get to spend sometime celebratin' Independence Day. Do you watch certain movies for the Fourth? Something with a patriotic theme perhaps? Well, instead of featuring one of those movies like I did last year, I figure why not do …
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Weekend Roundup: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and Magic Mike review
This sweltering heat must be doing the cinemas some good as people want to cool off in the air-conditioned movie theaters. Whilst the last two weekends were dominated by movies targeted for kids (Brave, Madagascar 3), this time adults packed theaters to see two R-rated movies: Ted and Magic Mike. The former starring Mark Wahlberg …
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Monthly Roundup: June Movie Watching Recap
Happy July everybody! It's been a sweltering HOT Summer the past week and looks like the trend is gonna continue. I tell you, I'm glad I live in Minnesota where 90-degree weather is not the norm as I don't deal very well with extreme heat. I guess I wasn't meant to live in my homeland …
Thank you Nora Ephron for your wonderful rom-coms!
Multi-talented writer/director Nora Ephron died Tuesday at the age of 71. I regretfully wasn't aware that she was suffering from acute myeloid leukemia and to me, she always looked younger than her age. A tinge of sadness came over me when I heard of her passing. Well, for one, there just aren't enough female filmmakers in …
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TAKE TWO: How would these films turn out had these directors made them?
Many of us who follows Hollywood knows that a film goes through several writing stages before it hits the big screen; we also know that many directors were involved in this process, most of the time these directors decided to leave the project on their own terms or get fired by the studio. Then the …
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