Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Ever get that feeling that some actors show up every season on some show or other that you're watching? Sort of like that movie season where Jude Law was in every third movie. Or that period of time when Gene Hackman really WAS in every third movie. Or how Tom Bergeron hosts every third reality show. Ken Levine cited Sonya Walger and Kim Raver ; I don't happen to be in Ms. Walger's sphere of influence,...
A Writer's Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
My crime film fest continued last night with a weird entry from 1972... PRIME CUT starring Lee Marvin as a Chicago enforcer who heads out to the fields of Kansas to collect a $500,000 debt from Gene Hackman, another enforcer...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
From unstoppable robots with Austrian accents to psychopathic Cuban gangsters, it seems we cannot get enough of badasses on the silver screen. But what is it about them that we love so much? They are not exactly the chatty types. In fact, they tend not to have too many friends and take themselves a little bit too seriously. And let’s not even mention their taste in clothes. But, then again,...
Movie Trailer Talk (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
“We are family….” The Birdcage is a remake of the French classic, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, and hopefully will be become a comedy classic all its own. Armand and Albert are a gay couple running a night club in Miami, and Armand finds out his son is getting married. It just so happens he is getting [...]
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
All of those horrible celebrators of death who completely misrepresented the Terry Schiavo case from EVERY angle -- moral, legal, legislative -- should take a look at this story (Drudge found...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I picked up the Criterion edition of The Royal Tenenbaums for The Husband because I had heard it was a good comedy but didn't give it to him because, as I read a bit about it, it just didn't seem to be his "type" of comedy -too much tragedy in the midst of it all, maybe. I ended up putting it in the stack with all the other to-be-watched DVDs, and the Younger Son picked it tonight. We liked...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Until recently, if you wanted to watch a movie, a trip to a video store like blockbuster was your only option. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds off movie download sites is becoming very common. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The actor Edward Woodward, best known for playing righteous enforcers in Callan, The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, has died at the age of 79 . We look back over his career Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland had the splashier roles in The Wicker Man, the 1973 occult horror set in a fictional Hebridian island demented by paganism, but it was the performance of Edward Woodward, who died today, that made...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² ....
Pai (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Today, I'm in a very good mood and just generally pleased to be alive. Happy Friday everybody! Enjoy your weekend, and enjoy this post that's been lingering for a few days or so. ---------------------------------------- I first saw the Superman movies as a child and I remember being absolutely blown away. I was certain this was the coolest thing I have ever seen and that nothing would ever top it....
Animated News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Forget whatever you've heard: Mr Fox is a Wes Anderson film pure and simple, and marks that rare occasion when a live-action director brings a unique, and genuinely Fantastic , new perspective to the animation medium.
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I'll admit, you guys had me worried there. I know my competition to win a copy of Moon was unexpected and only ran for four days, but I was concerned when only one entry had arrived by Sunday evening. But, it appears that everyone was just waiting for inspiration (or grappling with writers' block), as Monday and Tuesday saw a healthy slew of 69-word answers to my little poser... I asked UK-based readers,...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The odd story of NASA’s unused wingless escape vehicle for the International Space Station is finally over. The prototype X-38, a 7-person, unpowered, totally automatic lifeboat, was officially laid to rest at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska last weekend. Canceled in 2002 by the Bush Administration in an effort to cut some costs [...]
Fitz Blog of Comedy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Young Frankenstein ***** Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman also star. I have a simple sense of humour - kills me
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