Film Commentary
What Makes A Movie A Blockbuster
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Blockbuster movies are extremely expensive to make, involving big named stars and costly special effects. Literally millions of dollars are spent on them with the hopes that the returns will more than make up for their cost. It’s these movies that studios depend upon to keep the money flowing and a bad movie can cost [...]
10 Hollywood Classics and what really made them good
Friday, March 28th, 20081. Raiders of the Lost Ark Good, bloody action combined with a sense of humor and fairly credible plot twists. This is a formula that Hollywood has forgotten makes for great entertainment. Sure, they keep throwing the poor man’s version at you (The Mummy, Live Free or Die Hard), and you keep paying for [...]
No Country big country at Oscars
Sunday, February 24th, 2008No Country for Old Men got off to a killer start at the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Javier Bardem, who portrayed a particularly brutal serial killer in No Country, won the first of the “big six” Oscars, in the supporting-actor category.
During his acceptance speech, the Spaniard — directing his comments toward his mother in [...]
Al Pacino to Take On James Bond
Friday, February 15th, 2008
You read that right. Apparently there is a new rumor that was floated to the guys over at AICN that Al Scent of a Woman Pacino would play the head honcho of the new, evil terrorist organization in the upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace.
This is certainly a crazy rumor which may [...]
At the movies, 3D’s hot all over again
Monday, February 11th, 2008 Features like ‘Hannah Montana’ are the big hope
If it didn’t get huge amounts of attention, that’s not entirely surprising. It was Super Bowl weekend, after all, when nearly 100 million Americans, a record, tuned in to watch the underdog New York Giants yank a late-game victory from the grip of the favored New [...]