Five for the Fifth: April 2012 Edition

Hello folks, welcome to the April 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! It's a bit early this year because tomorrow we've got a very special tribute post planned 😉 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 …

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Classic Flix Review: Cape Fear (1962)

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. His being made for the genre of Noir in Out of the Past. Now, I want to …

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Monthly Roundup: March Movie-Watching Recap

Though I've been blogging for over 2 years now, I've never actually done a monthly movie-watching recap before. But I've been inspired by Eric, Andy, Diana and Andina so from now on, I'm going to do this on the first or second day of the month. Like Diana said on her post, I too feel so diminutive …

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THIS JUST IN: Total Recall (2012) Full Trailer

All right, after the stupid trailer-for-a-trailer thing that Sony released last week, this time we finally have the real full-length trailer! I've actually been looking forward to it since I saw the Hall H panel at Comic-con last year. Sheesh, it took 'em almost a whole year to finally release the trailer?? Just like the 1990 …

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The Ten Best Actors of All Time: Relay Race

My friend Nostra at My Filmviews started this back in mid March, as if he needed to prove to anyone that he lives up to the title 'King of all Blog Series' that I gave him 😀 What's this relay race all about? I'll let Nostra himself explain: "So what’s the idea behind the relay? I’ve …

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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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