The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Posted: January 9, 2010 at 3:46 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

The latest film from former Monty Python Terry Gilliam is a lot like a kaleidoscope, beautiful to watch, and at times captivating to watch, but ultimately confusing and a disarray of colors. The film has recently gained a lot of notoriety due to the fact that it is Heath Ledger’s final film, and he died […]

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Star Trek 2 Coming June 2012!

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 10:01 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Yeah, so that sounds like a long time right? It is because it is. To be honest this is good news. It means the studio isn’t rushing it out to capitalize on the success of the first film, and it will give the people associated with the project plenty of time to come up with […]

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Blake Lively to Play Love Interest in ‘Green Lantern’

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 9:53 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Now that Green Lantern has officially been green lit it is time to start casting some of the supporting cast.  Blake Lively has been cast as Carol Ferris the manager of her father’s aerospace company who hires the cocky Hal Jordan, played by Ryan Reynolds, who goes on to become Green Lantern. Blake Lively is […]

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Crazy on the Outside – Movie Review

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 8:55 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Tim Allen makes his directorial debut in a well-meaning mess of a film called Crazy on the Outside.  Allen also stars as Tommy, an ex-con fresh out of prison for pirating DVDs.  (Apparently those FBI warnings we have to sit through are serious.)  Needing a place to stay he takes up residence at his sister […]

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Leap Year – Movie Review

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 8:52 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

As Leap Year begins, Anna (Amy Adams) is attempting to purchase a hotly sought after condo with Jeremy (Adam Scott), her cardiologist boyfriend of four years.  Jeremy is the sort of pleasing but uninspiring man that women in romantic comedies typically find themselves entangled with just before meeting someone new and exciting.  (Smartly parodied in […]

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Youth in Revolt – Movie Review

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 8:46 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Michael Cera returns as Nick Twisp in the new movie Youth In Revolt.  The film, based on C. D. Payne’s 1993 cult novel of the same name, has been in development hell for over a decade.  (MTV tried to turn the book into a television show in 1998 and, subsequently, held the rights for many […]

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DVD Review Friday – “Ong-Bak”

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 7:44 pm   /   DVD News, Local

Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao Tony Jaa Pumwaree Yodkamol We’ve seen this plot a thousand times. The head of a sacred statue gets stolen from a small Thai village and Ting (Tony Jaa) must go on a bone-breaking spree to get it back with the help of an ex-member of the village named […]

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‘Zombieland’ Writers Attached To Write ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel and ‘Deadpool’

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are finding out what happens when you are the writers of a successful film. They have been tapped to write the spinoff of a spinoff film Deadpool, starring Ryan Reynolds.  They have also apparently been tapped to write the sequel to G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Reynolds will be reprising […]

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Sam Mendes Directing James Bond 23

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 3:17 pm   /   Local, Movie News

People always ask me, “Blake, who is your favorite director?”, and I can never seem to answer. Over all the years of cinema there has been a lot of directors who have made a lot of leaps forward in the film making process. When you narrow it down to modern directors I can name off […]

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Another New ‘Kick-Ass’ HD Trailer

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm   /   Film, Local

This is another one of those movies that is making me incredibly excited about the prospects of 2010.  My main worry is that the film will cover more than the comic has. It’s been almost two years since I started reading Kick-Ass, and it would kind of suck to not be able to finish the […]

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