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Category: Movies
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District 9 an alien original
It’s no surprise that District 9 kicked off the weekend with a strong 100% “fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes. The hype has been off the charts! Nearly everyone I know has been talking about it for weeks and Twitter was all a’buzz with early reviews from people who attended midnight screenings. I finally got the chance…
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Audiences will fall in love with Charlyne Yi in Paper Heart
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen,” is how the great French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld summed up love. Dictionary.com describes love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.” T.S. Elliot gave his opinion on the subject at hand by stating “love is most nearly itself…
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Funny (real) People
Funny People is not exactly a comedy. It’s not really a drama or romance either. It’s a little combination of all those things and that’s what makes it feel so real. In a far more true-to-life plot than anything the writers of Entourage could ever dream of, Seth Rogen plays Ira Wright, a struggling comedian…
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The secret is out. The Room is the best worst movie ever!
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500 Days of Summer a refreshing rom-com
This is a story about boy meets girl, but it is not a love story. This is what the narrator from the new romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer, directed by Marc Webb and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, tells us at the start of the movie. The film centers around Tom Hansen (Gordon-Levitt)…
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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland trailer in HD
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Whatever Works really works
Whatever Works is the new comedy from writer/director Woody Allen. The film takes place in New York, (did you honestly think a Woody Allen movie could take place anywhere else? Fuggetaboutit!), with Larry David as the lead, Boris Yellnikoff.
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Captain EO
Part 2 after the jump…
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Public Enemies shows what a summer blockbuster is supposed to be
The year is 1933. America is in the heart of the Great Depression. Gangsters have style. The Giants are still in New York. American automobiles are tops in the world. Bank robbers are legends. This is the setting of Michael Mann’s new film, Public Enemies.
