The comics world are colliding right before us come May 4th. As many of you already know, the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will be shown in front of The Avengers on its release in two weeks! I think it's a win-win for DC, Marvel AND us moviegoers, I mean both movies are hugely …
Continue reading Posters Spotlight: Cool Minimalist Posters of The Avengers & The Dark Knight Rises
Today's the Bard's 448's birthday! I didn't realize it until Garrison Keillor, the host of NPR Writer's Almanac, talked about it this afternoon on my way home from work. At the end of the segment, Mr. Keillor read one of William Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets published in 1609: Sonnet 116 Of course it was …
Continue reading Scenes Spotlight: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 in Sense & Sensibility
Happy Monday everyone! Did you have a great weekend? It was a good one for me as well as bittersweet as one of my good friends is going back to our home country for a year for personal reasons, so we had a farewell dinner on Saturday night. I skipped the cinema again and opted …
Continue reading Weekend Viewing Roundup – a mixed bag of 3 genres & 1 addictive TV series
Greetings, once again! It isn't often that I've been given the opportunity to indulge in a Trifecta or triple play regarding one of Hollywood's premier Tough Guys, Robert Mitchum. I covered his Scary attributes in The Night of the Hunter. I am going to dial it back a bit and explore another arena where the actor …
Continue reading Classic Flix Review: Out of the Past (1947)
In anticipation for Bond 23, a.k.a. Skyfall coming on November 9th, 2012, Ted and I are starting a new monthly series called 007 CHATTER... look for it sometime in the first week of each month. ... I've also added a new category for this, so click on 007 Chatter on the category drop-down menu for all …
Continue reading 007 Chatter: Seven actors we think could play the next James Bond
Boy I haven't done a poster post in ages, nor have I paid Impawards site a visit recently. But a couple nights ago I came across this gorgeous poster of Ben Foster's upcoming romance drama HERE. I first saw the trailer over at Castor's post last week and the story appeals to me. It's rare …
Continue reading Poster of the Week: indie romance drama HERE
This is the first film where the famous character of Hannibal Lecter (spelled as 'Lecktor' in this film), the brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, first appeared on screen. The story is based on Thomas Harris' novel called Red Dragon. I was curious because of that fact and also because I generally like Michael Mann's …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986)
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