I had been listening to X-Men: First Class during my workout lately, one of my favorite scores of the past few years. Henry Jackman was a protégé of one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, and he's been churning out great works himself. Born in Middlesex, UK, Jackman studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College …
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Happy Weekend everyone, and to my fellow Americans, Happy Memorial Weekend! Well, by the time you read this I'll be on my way to Amsterdam, then Bruges and of course, Paris! So naturally I'll be taking a blog break for the time being, but before that I'd like to share some of my favorite posts from my fellow …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin’, X-Men: Days of Future Past mini review and Holiday Hiatus!
WHOAH!! I haven't posted a trailer spotlight in ages but I just HAD to post this one today folks, this is one of my most anticipated movies of the year and despite this awful poster, the trailer definitely gets me super excited! Patrick Stewart’s voice over alone gets me all hypnotized… this is the kind …
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To my American friends all over the States, I want to wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope that you're all enjoying some time together with family/friends and cherish those moments dearly. To those in other parts of the world, I bid you happy-almost-weekend day 😀 Well, it's not as if you need a special …
Continue reading A Thanksgiving Post: 24 cinematic things I’m thankful for this year
Happy Sunday, folks, hope you've had a pleasant weekend! I've been wanting to do this post for quite a while as I haven't got a chance to actually review this movie for myself (but Paula G did here). But as I said in my weekend roundup last week, it's my top favorite movie of the …
[WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS] Despite my high expectations and fear of being disappointed, I really liked X-Men: First Class. Director Matthew Vaughn did serve up the Bond movie/political thriller cocktail that he promised, and, contrary to his own statement, there is no sappy love song to gum up the works [rtm's note: see comment in this …
In about 72 hours, the wait will finally be over! As you know I've been excited to see this movie for some time now. I love the X-Men franchise, I even enjoyed the third one to an extent, despite all the flaws and Brett Ratner's direction. I just re-watched the trailer of the first one …
Continue reading Counting down to X-Men: First Class – 5 reasons I’m seeing this on opening night
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