As June creeps toward July, my thoughts are slowly turning toward the next Toronto International Film Festival. As if on cue, this morning I happened upon a piece from Living in Cinema, where the writer actually states that reviews from film festivals really shouldn’t be trusted. He says that the stress of a festival experience…
Where Eagles Fly
So in case you’ve been living under a rock, Shaia LeBoeuf is one of Hollywood’s new “it” boys. The sort who they seem poised and ready to hand over the keys to the kingdom. True he’s been in two very high profile movies over the last two summers, but is he really ready to be…
Wasted Time
Weird lil’ moment for me this weekend. A guy named Lou Kije read my review on THE HAPPENING and actually posted a comment (still somewhat of a rarity for me). His comment was directed to his loathing of the movie and how I’d been too kind in my appraisal of it. Lou actually hated the…
Goodnight, Goodnight
George Carlin passed away today. He was one of the most influential comedians of all time, and made a film appearance or two such as in BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, and DOGMA. He reportedly died of heart failure. He was 71
THE INCREDIBLE HULK
If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again…
THE HAPPENING
I never thought I’d say this, but I actually miss Shyamalan’s twist endings.
Two
Lemme tell ya, it’s a sure sign that I’m having a slow day when I come back and put up a second post. Although with my PC on the blink, maybe I should soak it up and stop complaining. Any-who… Thought I’d go back to this week’s AFI special, and take a quick peek at…