If you’ve ever listened to rock and roll, at one point you’ve played an imaginary guitar to an imaginary audience. You might be a geek, a loser, and utterly musically talentless…but for three minutes or so, you are Eddie Van Halen. You are Eric Clapton. You are Slash, Edge, and Flea all rolled into one.…
Keep On Looking
Scratchy throat? Check. Sniffly nose? Check. Throbbing headache that is getting no help from my steady diet of Foo Fighters music? Check. Yep, The Hatter has a cold, and if you paid any attention to this post, you’ll know my choice of cinematic comfort food. Think NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a heart string–tugger?…
Green Eyes
Back in 2003, Ang Lee tried his darndest to capitalize on the sudden flood of comic book movies and bring The Hulk to the big screen. That attempt was sloppy (at best). Five years later, Hollywood is about to give the mean green machine another shot. Does anyone think they might have got things right…
Say Goodbye
Anthony Minghella passed away today after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He directed COLD MOUNTAIN, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, TRULY MADLY DEEPLY, and won an Oscar for his direction of THE ENGLISH PATIENT. He was 54.
A Moment Like This
Tonight I watched MR. MEGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM. The movie is sweet, and probably something younger kids would like, but it felt like it missed a rung or two on the Wonka-ladder it was trying to climb. However, as disappointed as I was with it, I must appreciate it for one very sweet and memorable scene…
Magical Mystery Tour
Interesting news from Warner Brothers today concerning the Harry Potter franchise. While the sixth film in the series is currently filming and slated for release this November, much of Potter fans’ attention has been focused on what would happen with the final film. The seventh book, which was released last summer and ended the series,…
Long Time – RIGHTEOUS KILL Trailer
I’ll openly argue that while Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are two of the best actors in movie history, I’ll likewise admit that both of them have been phoning most of their parts in for about a decade now. However, I still can’t help but get a little excited to see that they are finally…