Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sam Cooke, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, River Phoneix – name your favorite artist who passed too soon and play the game. What if? What if Hendrix found another sonic barrier out there, or Joplin wedded her blues with her prodigious talent and a hint of stability in her [...]
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Director Christopher Nolan’s challenge in making his third Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” was simple enough – how do you top the untoppable? It’s a question that hovers over Rises like a shadow in the twilight. Success breeds its own set of challenges, and the challenge for Nolan, who directed what many consider [...] The Social Network: The plot – a group of drunks and pretentious dweebs in the Ivy League go into business together, then sue each other at the end of the movie. The movie is strangely riveting, given it has so few genuinely likeable characters. It has become a kind of window into the soul. When [...] Putting a finger on what was missing from “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” isn’t too difficult. It’s hard to do justice to a work, whether it a film or book, when that piece of work is missing one of its most important characters. This was the problem with “A Game of Shadows.” Sure [...] The world waited to see how Brad Bird, the accomplished director of animated fare “The Iron Giant,” “The Incredibles,” and “Ratatouille” would work with actual humans. Given his first lead actor in his first live-action adventure was Tom Cruise, we have to wait, since Cruise (who is pushing the half-century mark) has undergone more [...] How the West Was Won — Finally succumbed to buying a Blu-Ray player earlier in the year and well worth the investment for this movie alone, watched in the “Smile-Vision” presentation which re-created the Cinerama tri-screen “wrap-around” experience — WOW!!!. On loan from the WB library for the weekend, actually got through its near-three hours [...] People often try to find ways to measure the quality and enjoyability of movies. Sometimes these measuring devices consist of stars (usually four or five at most) or even thumbs. Superhero/comic book movies are measured on a different scale. That scale consists of the “it” moment. The “it” moment is something along the lines [...] This year's prom theme is Glock. Surprise is a word with one defined meaning, yet existing in two substantive types. To explain: there are two different types of surprises. There is the surprise of waking up one morning in Vegas, having realized you married Kate Upton. There’s the other kind of surprise, best expressed [...] A discussion of Hollywood’s abusive relationships usually revolves around Chris Brown, maybe Roman Polanski, or any of the serial adulterers that roam entertainment. But real abuse goes deeper. Orwell once noted the thrill of domination and the thrill of being dominated. He could have been referring to the relationship between the rock band Van [...] Sorry for the late addition. Apparently a little slow on the up-keep today, but still with enough of a heads-up for tomorrow … Sin City (2005) Lawmen, prostitutes, a hulking thug and other sordid characters run amok in a crime-ridden metropolis. Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and a guest sequence by Quentin Tarantino. Cast: [...] While we didn’t make any $10,000 bets, co-worker and I recently bandied about Joel Schumacher’s overall Hollywood credibility, his hits vs. misses. Crap-ass flicks like 8MM and the Batman debacle which may not be named (at least not till later) aside, I’m firmly in the former camp. Co-worker leaned the latter direction before presenting [...] - Red River: A Ron Pearlman recommendation on TCM Tuesday, this Howard Hawkes masterpiece still resonates. Most John Wayne fans have a list of his favorite co-stars, with company favorites like Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and Maureen O’Hara. I’ll go with Montgomery Clift. He’s an absolute monster, and like the greats, can come off as [...] Smilin’ a whole lot wider right now about the global marketing for upcoming Captain America movie. Most of the world, my sincere thanks. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios gave distributors around the world the option of shortening the title of “Captain America: The First Avenger” to simply “The First Avenger,” out of concern about [...] I’m not a TV critic but I will give this a shot, especially since CBS managed to f-up one of the greatest things I have ever seen on TV before, the Boston 4th of July celebration featuring the Boston Pops Orchestra. You’ll forgive me if I get the time-lines wrong or not know when or [...] Lending a hand to our good friend Christian Toto, who lays a Rick James-style SLAP!!! on Roger Ebert. Condensed version below and you can catch his full wrath over at What Would Toto Watch (some great comments from his crew over there, too, and not just talkin’ ’bout mine or JimmyC’s. Cue the Onyx [...] Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Two slackers try to sabotage the production of a movie. 7:45 PM EST | 104 min. | Director: Kevin Smith | TV-MA-L Some will say this was fortunately the last movie to prominently feature Kevin Smith and his foul-mouthed buddy Jason Mewes (at least until Smith felt [...] I’m not sure there is enough left in the well, but going “The Expendables” route by loading up the roster with past stars from the other “Fast and Furious” flicks, as well as Dwayne Johnson, might keep the box office tally going. And that’s the reason this was made, the last movie made nearly [...] |
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