Posts Tagged ‘Brad Pitt’
Film Review – Allied
Here is yet another instance where trailers and advertisements promise one film and what we get is something else. We’re lead to believe that Robert Zemeckis’ Allied (2016) is a taut thriller about betrayals and lies. What we actually get is a sweeping love story…
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In addition to being an ardent film lover, I really enjoy financial scandals. (Reading about them, not committing them.) I have an MBA from the University of Washington, and most of our accounting class time was spent talking about people misbehaving with numbers. I graduated…
READ MOREAudacious Dames – Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise, both the film and its titular characters, were jinxed at the Oscars in 1992, winning only one well-deserved award for Best Writing for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen by Callie Khouri. Its parched vistas, greasy spoons, and asphalt veins of…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Age of Adaline
On a distant planet far off in the galaxy, an alien life form got a tickle under its nose and sneezed. This sneeze caused a ripple effect throughout the universe, eventually shifting the Earth’s rotational axis by .0002 degrees. The global change forced the Earth’s…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Counselor
In an early scene of The Counselor, Cormac McCarthy’s first work written directly for the screen, a diamond dealer informs the Counselor that the diamond he’s chosen for his fiancée is a cautionary stone. He might as well be describing the film he’s in, and…
READ MOREDVD Rundown 9-17-2013 – Video Podcast #276
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for September 17th, 2013. In this episode they discuss World War Z, The Bling Ring, Bates Motel and Slacker.
READ MOREFilm Review – World War Z
Zombies, zombies, zombies. Everywhere we turn nowadays, the undead are rising from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living. Movies, TV, books, live action zombie walks: mindless people-eaters are shuffling their way towards the unsuspecting living to eat their brains or convert…
READ MORECinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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