Whenever I think about the Oscars, my mind inevitably wanders to the little gold statues themselves. And from there I think about other little gold statues, specifically that one in Indiana Jones. Then I start thinking about how much cooler Indiana Jones is than the Oscars. And this has certainly turned into a ramble. Ok. [...]
The 80′s were really a Golden Age for amazing action movies and at their core were a serious load of movie badasses: John McClane, Ellen Ripley, The Terminator, the list goes on. And one actor’s name appears more than others on this list, his name is Kurt Russell. Russell’s characters alone aren’t as immediately recognizable [...]
In 1996, the ensemble hit, Independence Day (aka ID4) racked up over $817 million. That is a HUGE chunk of change. In fact to that date, it was one of the highest grossing movies of all time, and according to the ever reliable Wikipedia it is still in the top 20 ALL TIME. That’s a [...]
If you had told me before I started on this conquest that I would be watching a film from 1931 in black and white, with stretches of sparse dialogue, and all of said dialogue would be in German and that I would come out loving the film. I’d have said you were a moron. And [...]
I will say first off that these are rumors. But they are awesome rumors. With Terminator: Salvation on the way from McG, I’ve been cautiously optimistic, mainly because he convinced Christian Bale to be his John Connor. Apparently Christian Bale has a temper, I haven’t heard much about it, but he likes to yell. SARCASM. [...]
thanks a lot self. So on my quest for 250 I’ve been trying to find as many free openings to view these movies as possible. While searching yesterday, I found 1939′s Wuthering Heights, which I thought I had also seen on my list. So I watched it this morning and was about to start writing [...]
I remember the first time I even heard about this movie was in the early 2000s and it was while reading a video game preview. The movie was being made into a videogame approximately 20 years after its release, so I figured it was probably worth a look and luckily caught it on AMC like [...]
A trend I’ve noticed especially over the last year is the growing popularity of vampires in various mediums of popular culture. It’s been in the movies, television, and books notably in that span of time. And they’ve become a very popular tool for storytellers to convey various feelings or stereotyping and the like. The most [...]
I had the opportunity to knock another one off the list and figured I might as well. I’d seen L.A. Confidential before, but it was awhile ago. I certainly remembered liking it, but since I saw it what’s probably near 10 years ago it was good to see it again. And right after watching it, [...]
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