Ten awesome things about The Dark Knight Rises trailer 3

I'm sure everyone's seen this trailer by now, several times over perhaps? Well I don't blame you, I have seen it about seven times already and I have to restrain myself from being overly-excited about this movie. My friend Matthew from The Movie Mash tweeted this earlier today: Tonight I finally get to see THE …

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Monthly Roundup: April Movie Watching Recap

Happy May Day folks! April certainly flew by amazingly quick, I feel like I had just done this monthly round up not that long ago and now it's time for another update! Well, this month is a busy one blogging one. Here are a few blogging events I hosted as well as took part in, …

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Wet Blog-a-thon: Ten Indelible Rain/Wet Scenes

Rain just makes everything so much more dramatic in movies... so when I saw this Wet Blog-a-thon open invitation at Andrew's blog, I knew I just had to take part. Of course the first thing that came to mind is something romantic, which is what I did a couple of years ago with the Jane …

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The Avengers Initiative: Profile on Agent Phil Coulson

Happy Sunday all! It's The Avengers Week over at The Focused Filmographer blog as part of the countdown to the Marvel movie's US release. My pal Terrence asked me to participate in The Avengers Initiative, so today I present you the profile on the least likely hero of all — but certainly just as valiant — the S.H.I.E.L.D. …

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Everybody’s Chattin’ … and the Bond casting poll update

HAPPY FRIDAY, all!  Man, I just realized I haven't done an Everybody's Chattin' post in ages. As you can tell, I'm not big on structure or keeping up w/ series like my blog friends [you know who you are :D] but I promise I'll keep this post more regularly from now on. Now, before I …

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Classic Flix Review: The French Connection (1971)

Greetings, all and sundry! I am going to take a well-deserved respite from Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck and take a few moments to wax poetic and nostalgic about a film that solidly grabbed my attention more than forty years ago. One that firmly anchored the concept of the 'Partner Film'. Which is very different …

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THIS JUST IN! John Hillcoat’s ‘Lawless’ Trailer

The first time I heard about this movie was when there's news circulating about Shia LeBeouf and Tom Hardy clashing on the set and got into a bar brawl. Now, I don't really care about what's really going on between those two, but the movie they're working on does sound intriguing. Formerly called The Wettest …

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