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Monday, October 1, 2012

Film Club October

I love October movies because I love horror movies. I don't care about all that stuff like pumpkins, candy apples, crisp air, changing trees, but a good scary movie helps pass the month by fantastically. Since I got the luck of the draw I figured that this would be a perfect time to get some of you to see one of my favorite new horror flicks....

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

Not a big horror fan? No big deal. This movie is more comedy than horror although there are a few gross scenes, as is evident 10 minutes into the film, this is no Hostel or Saw. The movie has very high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes from Critics (85%) Top Critics (90%) and the Audience (84%). Tucker and Dale are played by Alan Tudyk, from Firefly fame, and Tyler Labine, Reaper, respectively. And both of them bring the funny. But horror movies revolving around two rednecks needs a pretty damsel in distress right? Yep, Katrina Bowden who plays Cerie on 30 Rock has that covered.

Tucker & Dale vs Evil is available via Netflix streaming for those of you with a streaming account. There are a lot of great quotes in the movie. This one is likely my favorite: "Oh hidy ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property."

Hope you all enjoy!

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Some new films coming out this fall that look good!

CLOUD ATLAS    starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/    View the trailer

LINCOLN    starring Daniel Day Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tommy Lee Jones

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/    View the trailer

LES MISERABLES     Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/     View the trailer

SKYFALL    starring Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, and Javier Bardem

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/    View Trailer

ANNA KARENINA   Starring Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, Jude Law

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781769/    view the trailer

DJANGO UNCHAINED   Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/#lb   view the trailer

FILM CLUB

September is almost gone and Keith is up as the picker for October!!! Only 3 days left!!

QUENTIN TARANTINO

Favorite Tarantion Film?

Inglourious Basterds-2009
Death Proof-2007
Kill Bill Vol. 2-2004
Kill Bill Vol. 1-2003
Jackie Brown-1997
Pulp Fiction-1994
Reservoir Dogs-1992

I have to say that I have enjoyed all Tarantino films! Its hard to pick a favorite, but Ill go with Pulp Fiction. I do have to say that I like Inglourious Basterds more and more with each viewing!

Monday, September 24, 2012

Clint Eastwood

Last Friday Clint Eastwood's new film Trouble with the Curve opened in theaters. It also stars Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, and John Goodman. What is your favorite Clint Eastwood film? Mine would be Unforgiven

A Room with a View

I have to say that watching A Room with a View was a little dry in my opinion. I kept waiting for things to pickup a little bit and then it did not. Even though the film won an Oscar for the writing, I thought a great cast of actors/actresses had little to work with in certain scenes which caused me to be detached to the emotion and feelings towards the charaters that the film was trying to get me to feel. I just never really got the point where I cared what happened to Lucy Honeychurch (played by a young Helena Bonham Carter). I was pleased with a couple surprise performances in minor roles by Denholm Elliott (Mr. Emerson) and Simon Callow (Rev Beebe), it was the luke warm performances of Helena Bonham Carter and especially Julian Sands that brought the film down a little and since they were the main characters, it just couldnt get me 100% invested into the film. I thought the cinematography (Tony Pierce-Roberts), the set direction and art direction were excellent but overall a so-so film in my opinion. For a same type of a film I would recommend Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, for me anyway I feel it is a better film than A Room with a View.