Hello everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend, yeah I know it's Tuesday already so you've probably forgotten all about it, ahah. Well, I saw the Prometheus chatter all over Twitter though I did hear that it got beaten by Madagascar 3 at the box office by about $10 mil! (per BoxOfficeMojo) Man, those animated …
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Guest Post: Still Learning Lessons From Ferris Bueller
Happy Monday all! As you're reading this, I'm likely hanging out in downtown Chicago with my best friend, enjoying the hot and sticky Summer day in the Windy City. So what's more appropriate than a post from a movie set in that exact spot? Special thanks to Nick from Cinema Romantico for his awesome contribution! I …
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Music Break: The Dark Knight’s End Credit Score
Happy almost weekend, folks! I'm flying to Chicago Friday night for a few days to attend my best friend's graduation, so for this week's music break, I choose one of my favorite movies filmed in that city. That Nolan film is extra special as my hubby and I were actually in town when they were …
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Musings on Django Unchained First Trailer
So the trailer of one of my most anticipated movies of year has arrived, Django Unchained. In case you didn't know what it's about, here's the basic plot: With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. ... http://youtu.be/WGPWDn8zBDs ... So what do …
Five for the Fifth: JUNE edition
Hello folks, welcome to the June 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 get …
Weekend Roundup: Snow White and the Huntsman review
Hope your first June weekend was a good one, folks. I finally made my way to the cinema since The Avengers a month ago. That movie is still box office gold as it still place third this weekend with over $20 mil, so it's overall worldwide gross now stands at 1.3 Billion, wow, hulk smash …
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FlixChatter Review: Coriolanus (2011)
Coriolanus is one of the renown playwright's lesser-known works that Ralph Fiennes has played on stage back in 2000. It's sort of a passion project for him so naturally he knows this character inside and out. For his directorial debut, the British thespian translates the story as a modern wartime film set in a 'place …