Every time I review a horror film, I start off by saying how much I hate the genre, that I don’t get the fascination people have then I go on to say how much I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the cheesiness of – insert film name here. So maybe it’s time I […]
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MOVIE NEWS: The Oscar Nominations Are In! What a Boring, Safe, Crop…
The Oscars have been announced and I can without a doubt tell you, I don’t care. Sure, I’m doing the obligatory blog post about it. I may try and do a commentary on this, but this year’s Oscar campaign was so lackluster and nothing on this list is either outrageously good or bad, just middle […]
Movies: Warner Brothers Amps up the Promotion for the Friday the 13th Reboot
FRIDAY THE 13TH In Theatres Friday, February 13 Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film “Friday the 13th.” Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki, Supernatural) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old […]
MOVIE NEWS: Michelle’s Picks for Best Films of 2008
I say this every year and every year it’s true – I hate doing lists of any sort, especially the yearly Top 10 re-caps. I can’t even remember the last ten films I saw, that alone rifle through my brain and remember everything from an entire year. Overall this was an interesting year, the beginning […]
MOVIE NEWS: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Start’s It’s Marketing Push Today. New Trailer, Website, and Ecards!
Back in the day I was a huge fan of Neil Gaiman’s and own the almost all of the original run of the Sandman Books, including the Death Mini-Series (when are we going to get THAT movie? It can’t be that hard to make.). However, I haven’t read any of his novels. So I’m real […]
OSCAR RACE: Heath Ledger Honored by DC Film Critics!
This year’s Oscar campaign has been pretty lackluster, but there were a few jems to be discovered. Today, the Washington, DC Film Critics Association has named Slumdog Millionaire the year’s best film. I’m a member of WAFCA and this year’s selections are all about 75% of my choices, so I won’t complain like I usually […]
MOVIE NEWS: Sylvester Stallone Leads Expendables
Sylvester Stallone has teamed up with Nu Image/Millennium films with a deal to write, star in and direct their latest action movie offering, “The Expendables” about a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator. Stallone will also be weighing in on this film with two other heavy hitting action stars […]
Movie News: School Is In Session for FAME Reinvention
Lakeshore Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has announced they are set to do a ‘reinvention’ of the 1980 Oscar winning film FAME. The announcement was made jointly today by producer Tom Rosenberg, chairman & CEO of Lakeshore Entertainment, and Mary Parent, chairman of MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group. In keeping with the spirit and innovation […]
Movie News: Get Smart Gets a Smart Sequel
Warner Bros. Pictures, Mad Chance Productions, Mosaic Media have announced that a sequel to their 2008 hit comedy Get Smart is in the works. Get Smart, which was originally a 1960’s comedy series that parodied spy movies, starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon and the sexy Agent 99. In the 2008 updated […]
MOVIE NEWS: Indiana Jones Cannes Press Conference
One of these years I’m going to make it to the Cannes Film Festival. Every time I come close to pulling the trigger, I start thinking, am I going to get something out of this, that will make it worth spending over $4,000 on? My answer always end up being no. Here’s a look at […]
Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Ok, I’ll admit I’ve always been pretty ambivalent towards the Indiana Jones trilogy. I liked Raiders well enough, but loathed Temple of Doom – it’s completely un-watchable, while Last Crusade was meh. So when they announced that they were finally going to do Indy 4 I could not have cared less. Indiana Jones and the […]