It starts with an Indian geologist, Dr. Satnam Tsurutami [Jimy Mistry] alerting American geologist Dr. Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetal Ejiofor] of rising temperatures in the world’s deepest copper mine [handily already mined out]. This is tied into abnormally strong sun flares and sufficient neutrinos that they have a mutating effect… Well, you get the idea. Scientific […]
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MOVIES: Scorsese To Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award!
Director Martin Scorsese is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes. The award will be presented to Scorsese at the 67th annual Globes on Jan. 17, 2010. Scorsese turns 67 next week and is an Academy Award winner for directing on ”The Departed” and a two-time Golden Globe winner […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Fourth Kind – Cynical, Manipulative Tripe!
Everything that the ultra-low budget did right, The Fourth Kind gets wrong. The mawkish, amateurish Paranormal Activity felt more real by doing very little, but timing it well and giving us characters we could care about – even if they weren’t the brightest bulbs on the chandelier. The Fourth Kind purports to be a combination […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Men Who Stare At Goats Made Me Laugh!
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opens with the disclaimer: More of this is true than you would believe. Based on the non-fiction book of the same name, it is a film that looks at the U.S. Armed Forces’ attempts to explore the possibility of using paranormal abilities for war. The framing story […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Disney’s A Christmas Carol Is No Humbug!
Disney’s A Christmas Carol surprises in that not only is it a wonderful film, it doesn’t actually dress up the tradition Dickens tale with too much action movie fooferaw. By now, what with everyone from Mr. Magoo to Tim Curry having played the humbugging Dickens miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, there are very few people who don’t […]
Movie Screening! No Hassle DC Screening of The Box!
Our good friends at Warner Brothers Pictures have given us some passes to next Thursday night’s Washington, DC screening of The Box. The trailers for this actually look pretty good. The screening will be held Thursday, November 5th at 7:30pm. To attend, check out the movie trailer and the synopsis after the break. Look for […]
Movies: Twilight Cast Coming to Washington, DC and other Malls Near You!
Hey all you crazy Twilight Fans. In celebration of the recently release Twilight: New Moon Album and the upcoming release of the movie the cast and crew from the movie are hitting the road for the next few weeks. In some locations not only will you get members of the Cast but you’ll get musical […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are – Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!
Spike Jonez’s Where the Wild Things Are does what was thought to be impossible: it turns a forty page book with barely ten sentences [fifty-nine words] into a lovely, scary, fun film. Maurice Sendak’s children’s book treats children as though they are intelligent, perceptive and enjoy a good scare. He doesn’t underestimate kids – and […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Law Abiding Citizen Great Nasty Fun Until the Wheels Drop Off!
After Clyde Shelton’s [Gerard Butler] wife and daughter are murdered, Assistant D.A. Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx] makes a deal with one of the killers to put the other on death row. The deal maker pleads to third-degree murder and gets a remarkably short sentence. What Rice doesn’t know is that his deal has been made […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Paranormal Activity Works For One Reason: It’s Very Good!
By now, pretty much the entire North American population is aware that Paranormal Activity – the little movie that could – was shot on a budget of $15,000. College and midnight screenings were packed and the response was almost universally good, so Paramount Pictures – after kudos by people like Steven Spielberg – decided to […]
Movie News: The Trailer for Heath Ledger’s Last Performance, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Debuts!
Ok, let me start by saying how much I really, really hate the name of this movie. Reminds me of a scene from the movie Hollywood Shuffle, “How are you going to ask your girl out to a movie you can’t pronounce?” The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is Heath Ledger’s last performance, he died before […]