Is a spoiler warning even necessary? Seriously people: spoilers for all of Breaking Bad. This week, Breaking Bad said its final goodbye to Walter Hartwell White, marking the finale of what is sure to go down in history as one of the greatest television shows of all time. With gripping plotting, amazing acting, top-notch production […]
Author Melissa Tagg and myself love old movies and started making videos about a couple of them earlier this summer. After a positive response and some retooling we are back with a weekly feature called CLASSIC MOVIE GUSH. We put the Marx Brothers in our sights this week and watched Duck Soup which critics say […]
He’s not a person anymore. He stopped being a person when he took our daughters. – Keller Dover Prisoners is the dark, excellent, star-studded new film whose ensemble cast includes Hugh Jackman, Terrance Howard, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. Prisoners is an outstanding thriller, well-acted, carefully directed and horrifying […]
Am I a good person who does bad things, or a bad person who does good things? – Dexter Morgan So were we introduced eight years ago to the monster who pretended to be a man, the serial killer who only kills killers, Dexter Morgan. We meet the girlfriend he pretends to love, the job […]
Few people have been loved in Hollywood as much as Garry Marshall, the man who discovered Robin Williams, Julia Roberts & Anne Hathaway. Big heart. Big brain. Great advice giver.
I woke this morning to an internet all atwitter with Warner Brothers’ latest announcement: Ben Affleck will play Batman in the still-untitled Man of Steel sequel everyone’s still just calling Batman vs. Superman. The general consensus is that somehow Affleck will ruin this film, and I don’t understand it. Batman vs. Superman might end up […]
I understand why the hippo did it. — Max Elysium is the last of the 2013 summer blockbusters, and this year saved the best for last. Forget Star Trek Into Darkness or Man of Steel or even Pacific Rim (though it’s a close second). With his second film Elysium, director Neil Blomkamp (of District 9 […]
Why can’t anyone tell me what’s happening? — Sophina Fruitvale Station is the dramatization of the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by BART police in Oakland. The film stars Michael B. Jordan as the fateful Grant, who is trying to get his life on track on this fateful day. The film’s […]
I’ve never needed this before. – Logan What? Help? – Mariko The Wolverine is 20th Century Fox’s sixth X-Men film, and I’m pleased to report that if it’s any indication, the future is bright for the X-Men films. The Wolverine moves Logan’s story forward and opens the universe for more films. Add to that some […]
For many of us, the mere fact that Pacific Rim promises – and delivers – giant monsters fighting giant robots is enough to get us into the theater. But I’m well aware that not all of us are so easily pleased. So in light of the rather underwhelming performance of Pacific Rim at the box […]