Hamlet 2

Posted: August 22, 2008 at 12:35 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This irreverent and silly comedy starting Steve Coogan is coming off being the hit film of Sundance and it does a very good job of being funny, even with the lunacy, absurdness, and predictability that fill the picture. Dana Marschz is a high school drama teacher that has moved to Tucson, AZ after failing to […]

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Links for 8/22

Posted: August 22, 2008 at 7:39 am   /   Local, Movie News

Reviews should start rolling out by me again today, been busy, sorry! -Writing has begun on The Hobbit! And here, del Toro talks about the effects work. Mark those calendars for December, 2011! -Here is some Hi-Res Watchmen! -Here is an interview with Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe. -The Goosebumps movie has a couple of […]

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Baby Batch of Links 8/18

Posted: August 18, 2008 at 11:11 am   /   Local, Movie News

-Star Trek has screened, minus a lot of effects work, and is apparently already very impressive. Also, here are some posters! Can you spot Simon Pegg? -Here are some more pics to my highly anticipated film adaptation of The Road, with Viggo in the lead. -Will Wheel of Time be the next big fantasy franchise? […]

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Pineapple Express (2008)

Posted: August 16, 2008 at 9:57 am   /   DVD News, Local, Movie Reviews

Caution: Spoilers A film from the talents that brought us: “Freaks and Geeks”, “Knocked Up” and “George Washington”, among others, “Pineapple Express” certainly blazes on the big screen. Director, David Gordon Green, known for more serious films like “Snow Angels” and “Undertow”, brings a nice, everyday on the down-low atmosphere to the jocular writing styles […]

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Posted: August 14, 2008 at 10:01 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

George Lucas has decided to keep the Star Wars franchise alive by producing two television series, the first of which to debut is, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This film is the first story arc of the television show and introduces us to this fun and exciting new look into the Star Wars universe. The […]

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Tropic Thunder

Posted: August 12, 2008 at 10:01 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Ben Stiller returns to the director’s chair to direct this satirical farce on and gets pretty great results out of it. The film opens with a number of faux trailers and commercials for the stars in the film and they are pretty funny, but I won’t spoil those here; but they aren’t quite as good […]

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Links for 8/8

Posted: August 8, 2008 at 8:25 am   /   Local, Movie News

-Check out the latest monthly Watchmen production video blog. -Watchmen interviews with Billy Crudup, and here is one with Jeffery Dean Morgan. Watch for spoilers for non-comic readers. -Brad Pitt is officially in on Inglorious Bastards! Here is a casting round up. Please Simon Pegg, please Simon Pegg! -Check out these awesome Clone Wars posters! […]

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Reign of Fire (2002)

Posted: August 6, 2008 at 3:57 pm   /   DVD News, Local, Movie Reviews

Reign of Fire is the title of an action movie directed by Bob Bowman who is the highly regarded Director of the X-Files. His venture into movie making for the big screen can be considered a good move judging by the action adventure impact of Reign of Fire. I was impressed on many levels, starting […]

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The Wackness (2008)

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 6:55 am   /   DVD News, Local, Movie Reviews

Definition of “wackness,” as according to urbandictionary.com — “The state of being wack. A measure of the degree to which someone or something is wack. Alternatively, an exclamation indicating a high degree of wackness in the general surroundings.” The Wackness is the story of Luke Shapiro, a teenager living in New York City in 1994. […]

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Joshua (2007)

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 6:51 am   /   DVD News, Local, Movie Reviews

Joshua is the title of a movie directed by George Ratliff and starring, Sam Rockwell, the father Brad Cairn (of Galaxy Quest and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame), Vera Farmiga, the mother Abby Cairn (Matt Damon’s love interest in the Departed), Dallas Roberts, the uncle Ned Davidoff (of 3:10 to Yuma fame), and […]

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