Archive for September, 2008
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A Look Back: True Romance
“True Romance” (1993) is a fast paced saga written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott. The film starts out with comic book store clerk Clarence (Christian Slater) getting shot down at a bar on his birthday. He then proceeds to see three kung foo movies (as he does every year on this day) when [...] -
MIB III
This has been a rumor thats circulated since 2002 when the last film hit theatres. Apparently even with Will Smith’s busy schedule he is on board and including Tommy Lee Jones and all the main collaborators. It’s just a matter of a script and when it can work at this point. “Men In Black” opened [...] -
Spiderman News
It was announced a couple months ago that Sony had decided to move forward with developing a 4th and 5th Spiderman films. It was all up in the air for a while if these two were gonna have a completely different cast and director. Recently both Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi announced that they [...] -
Box Office Results: 9/26-9/28
Here are this weekends box office results. Spielberg and Shia are prooving to be quite the team with “Eagle Eye” taking the top spot. “Nights in Rodanthe”, from the writer of “The Notebook” and reuniting “Unfaithful” stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane, landed in the 2nd spot. After 11 weeks “The Dark Knight” finally fell [...] -
Eagle Eye
Rated PG13, 118 minutes long. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, and Billy Bob Thornton. Do you remember The Matrix? Of course you do. Remember how the whole movie was all about the machines becoming too smart for their own good and taking over the planet? Well Eagle Eye falls into a [...] -
Paul Newman: 1925-2008
There’s so much that could be said about Paul Newman that I don’t know where to start. He definitely was an every-man’s actor; a man that the ordinary working man could relate to. He was known for being very charitable by donating all his profits from his Newmans Own food empire to charities. Him and [...] -
The Hustler
This is, by far, the best movie ever made about pool. The only film that has even come close to being as great as this is Poolhall Junkies. The Color of Money was good as well but that’s the sequel to this film. Paul Newman stars as “Fast” Eddie Felson, the greatest pool hustler of [...] -
More Jack Sparrow???
Disney announced today their plans for Johnny Depp in three upcoming roles. One is him playing the Mad Hatter in the upcoming motion capture version of “Alice and Wonderland” directed by Tim Burton. Depp will also be starring in “The Lone Ranger” which is being written by the writers of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” [...] -
500 Greatest Movies
If anyone is interested Empire magazine released their list of what they think are the 500 greatest films of all time. I read over it and was actually quite impressed with the list. They really did a great job putting it together and ignoring what AFI and Turner Classic Movies think are considered to be in [...] -
No More Sports for Ferrell
Will Ferrell announced while playing golf that after such sports films like “Kicking and Screaming”, “Talledega Nights”, “Blades of Glory”, and this years “Semi Pro”, he will not do any more sports flicks. He says that he has “filled his quota” on the genre. I’ve only seen “Talledega Nights” and “Blades of Glory” and I [...]