Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010

It’s been two week since my last update on my Kurosawa watchings and I’m here to report that I have since then completed my planned marathon. I did finish a month later than planned, but really who cares? In the last two weeks I’ve watched High and Low (1963), Stray Dog (1949) and Seven Samurai (1954). Here are my thoughts on each. (more…)
Tags: Akira Kurosawa, High and Low, Marathon, Seven Samurai, Stray Dog, Takashi Shimura, The Kurosawa Marathon, Toshiro Mifune
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010

This week in cinemas in Jamaica is: (more…)
Tags: Coming Out, Cop Out, Extraordinary Measures, Hush 2
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Lawrence [Benecio Del Toro] returns home to try and solve the mystery of what beast killed his brother. While out in the night searching for answers he happens to come in contact with the beast and is wounded. He is now cursed. Lawrence must now come to terms with his new self while at the same time learning more about this life under the pale moonlight. (more…)
Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Benecio Del Toro, horror, Hugo Weaving, Joe Johnston, Movie Review, The Wolfman
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010

This week we attempt to figure out why our mom is digging this new dude while at the same time try to remind Mia that she’s not a very good dancer and call her many bad words with our perfect british accent with Fish Tank. (more…)

The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 47 - Fish Tank] [86:27m]:
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Tags: Anna Faris, Blues Brothers, Bringing Out the Dead, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Captain America, Cirque du Freak The Vampire's Assistant, Crazy Heart, Fish Tank, From Paris with Love, Funny or Die Presents, Halo Legends, If, Jeniffer Garner, John Krasinski, La La Land, Podcast, Seann William Scott, t, The Bachelorette Party, The Box, The Exploding Girl, The Greatest, The Ricky Gervais Show, Top Gun, top ten, Wall Street 2, Wanda Sykes
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010

This week Douglas, Damion and myself find ourselves attempt to get the hell out of this crazy ass boarding school in England as we run away from the Crusaders. (more…)

The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 46 - If] [67:45m]:
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Tags: Brideshead Revisted, Burn Notice, Centurion, edge of darkness, Get him to the Greek, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, hbo, High Life, If, In The Loop, Lars von Trier, Martin Scrosese, Mean Streets, Once Upon a Time in the West, Podcast, quentin tarantino, Rihanna, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Slavery, Taxi Driver, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Last Dragon, The Messenger, Western
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010

After an incident on the carrier Maverick [Tom Cruise] and Goose [Anthony Edwards] have become the candidate for Top Gun, a school for the best of the best fighter pilots to make them better. We are then treated to eight weeks of training sessions and classes about flying fighter planes in the 80s. (more…)
Tags: 1001 films, action, Anthony Edwards, Drama, Kelly McGillis, Romance, tom cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Val Kilmer
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Friday, February 19th, 2010

James Reece [Jonathan Ryhs Meyers] is the aid to the US Ambassador in France. James wants to become a proper special ops agent and after showing some initiative his employers decide to team him up with Charlie Wax [John Travolta] on a mission to get answers in Paris to stop the bad guys. (more…)
Tags: action, From Paris with Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Ryhs Meyers, Luc Beson, Movie Review, pierre morel
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

So here’s my new weekly piece which is my way to give some well deserved link love across the internet for any articles that I’ve written and read and love. If there are any articles that you like make sure to put it in the comments below, or email it to me here and I’ll make sure to check it out and maybe feature it next week. (more…)
Tags: Academy Awards, Best Original Screeplay, Black Dynamite, Linked In, Oscars, Toshiro Mifune, Toy Story 3, Valentine's Day
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Monday, February 15th, 2010

I’ve been a horrible blogger. I’ve spent the last few weeks paying more attention to my writings for http://www.thefilmstage.com and I’ve forgot all about my marathon posts (and even viewings). However, fret not I will not abandon this crash course in film education. I will complete this marathon; however I think I’m going to change how I handle these Marathon posts. From now on I will make 1 post each week where I will discuss two, or how many, films that I watched that week in my marathon.
Anyways, this past week in my Kurosawa Marathon I watched: (more…)
Tags: Bad Sleep Well, The Kurosawa Marathon, Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010

This week at the theatre you can see: (more…)
Tags: Adi Hasak, Babloo Mandel, Coming Out, Dwayne Johnson, From Paris with Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lowell Ganz, Luc Beson, Michael Lembeck, pierre morel, The Tooth Fairy
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