7×7 Award

You like me, you really like me! Ehm, pardon my heartfelt enthusiasm but I really am grateful for this award and pardon my tardiness in getting this post up. I share this award with my wonderful contributors, especially Ted S. and Jack Deth. Firstly, let me say thank you so very much Michael, Diana, Ruth, …

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Attention action directors: Shaky cam and fast editing needs to go away

This is my rant to action some action directors in Hollywood who thinks that by having shaking cam and fast editing style will make your action scenes look cool. Please stop doing that right now! Those kind of sequences made some of us the viewers dizzy and a lot of times distract us from enjoying …

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Random Thoughts: What’s the deal with this ‘teaser for a trailer’ trend??

Ok, I normally don't post a rant very often here on this blog, but I just can't help it after seeing this TOTAL RECALL 'teaser trailer to a trailer' that's just released yesterday: http://youtu.be/T-Jt9RCy4v4 ... Never mind the Inception-sounding music or whether or not you agree that this movie should be remade. What I want …

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Weekend Roundup: The Raid: Redemption and My Week with Marilyn reviews

Happy Tuesday folks, a bit late on the weekend roundup as I just wanted to get my Hunger Games review out of the way. Well, I managed to see four movies last week which to some of you is on the low side but it's actually more than what I usually have time for. I …

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FlixChatter Review: The Hunger Games

It's quite rare that I watch a movie adaptation within a year of finishing the book, but that's exactly what happened with Hunger Games. I've told you in this post on Friday that I found the Suzanne Collins' book to be quite a page turner, but fortunately, this is the one occasion where the film does the …

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Weekend Watching Plans? Odds are definitely in Hunger Games’ favor

Happy Friday all!  After a very slow late Winter months, Spring is starting out with a bang in the movies! Hunger Games is here! This is the only major film that opens today, as the Indonesian-based action thriller The Raid (which I talked about here) only opens in limited release. So that means box office-wise, …

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Classic Flix Review: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Greetings all and sundry! On the advice of and other communications from Ruth, I am going to focus my abilities on a favorite actor of mine. With distinct attention to the actor's innate ability to scare the Beejeebus out of those in the audience, without saying much of anything threatening. To that end, please allow me to …

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