Famous Actors Screen Tests: Every star has to start somewhere

One of the marketing campaigns my creative team is working on right now involve some serial web-isodes. I missed the whole audition process as I took a day off on Monday, but on my co-workers' desk the next day I saw a stack of actors' resumes and head-shots that he's currently sorting through. It kind …

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Classic Flix Review: The Outfit (1973)

Greetings, all and sundry! Once again, I would like to take advantage of Ruth's largesse and wax poetic about a film that cemented my belief that Robert Duvall is a solid talent to be reckoned with. In what many consider to be a 'Criminal Revenge B-Movie', but is so much more! Hence, I proffer. Made …

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Valentine Special – 59 Reasons I LOVE Roman Holiday!

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! May love – romantic or otherwise – fill your heart and put a smile on your face. Well, a movie that always makes me smile as well as tear up with heartache and joy at the same time is none other than William Wyler's 1953 masterpiece rom-com Roman Holiday. And since …

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THIS JUST IN: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter First Trailer!

Here's one of those movies with an idea so bizarre it’s bound to get you at least curious enough to check it out. One of America's legendary presidents is a highly-trained vampire assassin?? What? What? When I first heard about it back in April when Rufus Sewell was cast as the lead vampire, I learned …

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A mini tribute to one of the greatest singers of all time… RIP Whitney Houston

My heart is heavy today... I just heard about Whitney's death this morning as I didn't tune in to the news all day yesterday. I know that BAFTA is going on tonight and I was thinking of blogging about that but I felt like paying tribute to one of my all time favorite singers. Another …

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Romance, Sci-fi Nostalgia or Action? What are you watching this weekend?

Happy Friday everyone! Well, the cold snap is back here in my neck of the woods, with high only in the teens and below zero windchill, brrrrrr. It's fairly typical of course so I'm not whining by any means, it's just we've been sort of spoiled this year with a relatively mild Winter. Anyway, February …

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Music Break: Top 10 Favorite John Williams Scores

I've been meaning to write a tribute for one of my favorite composers for a while and since February 8th is his 80th Birthday, it seems like a good a time as any. As I've mentioned several times on my blog, my two all time favorite music genres are classical and movie soundtracks, so naturally …

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