Well, it's another Wintry weekend here in MN with snow and plummeting temps. But I'm looking forward to 30 degrees above zero this week, ahah. Well, it's relatively unproductive as I only saw two movies this weekend as I spent some time working on my ARGO write-up for The Lamb Devour The Oscars series. This …
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Top 3 Favorite Nicole Kidman Roles
This post is for the current LAMB Acting School 101 on Nicole Kidman. As I haven't got a chance to catch up on a ton of her work (as I've mentioned here), I decided to just choose the top three favorite roles of the 11 films I've seen her in so far. I actually include …
Five for the Fifth: July 2012 Edition
Hello folks, it's time for the July 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! 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 your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. So let's …
Counting down to 2012 – Ted’s Top Five Movies of 2011
I have to confess that I haven't seen many of the more prestige films this year, only the big-budget tent pole type. So I don't know how credible I am by naming the top film best films of 2011 even though I haven't seen a lot of the films that came out this year. So …
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FlixChatter Review: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
It's been a while since the last time I was excited to see a Tom Cruise movie. I was intrigued when the first trailer came out, but it's this featurette that got me hooked! Yes, The Dark Knight Rises prologue was a major factor of course (more on that on tomorrow's Weekend Roundup), so those …
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Guest Post – A remake that’s actually worth seeing: Fahrenheit 451
Around mid 1990s, Mel Gibson pitched a remake of Fahrenheit 451 to Warner Bros. and they agreed to let him shoot it. Gibson had directed two films so far, The Man without a Face and Braveheart, he won an Oscar for the latter. So while in his directing mode he wanted to remake Fahrenheit 451 …
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From Vision to Film » Mission: Impossible 3
Welcome to the third edition of From Vision to Film series, courtesy of guest blogger Ted Saydalavong (to view the other two posts, click on the category name on the right sidebar). This movie's been released over four years ago, but news of the fourth sequel being green-lit weeks ago makes this post quite timely. …
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