Posts Tagged ‘500 Days of Summer’

As 2009 came to end so started every blogger and film critic letting the world know what he/she thought was the best of the best of the year.  Even I let my thoughts be known on the topic here.  After reading threw a ton of these lists I noticed the variety of films being mentioned and I thought, what would be the best of the best if instead of 1 guy/girl telling me their thoughts we all got together and duked it out over why one movie should be put above another.  Well since I knew it was almost impossible to get so many people in one room and it would probably end in a few fatalities as soon as certain words that can’t be taken back were said.  So what I’ve done is I jotted down as many Top Ten lists as I could find and decided to merge them all into one mammoth of a list. (more…)

The decade has ended and to remember the final year of the decade here is my Top Ten of the year to round out my Decade Remembered series of pieces. (more…)

So here it is again.  The post where I let you know what I think about the movies I love, hate and just haven’t even seen yet that came out on DVD today: (more…)

This week the podcasting crew sit down to discuss the issue of ambiguity in films and Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy. (more…)

 

 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 34 - The Butcher Boy] [80:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here the crew record a relatively short podcast in which they discuss how British accents do not equal Persian and the newest film from Ramin Bahrani, Goodbye Solo. (more…)

 

 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 33 - Goodbye Solo] [72:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week Douglas and I delve into classic French cinema and discuss Rififi and also list our Top 5 Heist films of all time [please don't laugh at us] so enjoy. (more…)

 

 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 29 - Rififi] [103:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tom Hansen [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] works as at a greeting card company and his boss just got a new assistant, Summer Finn [Zooey Deschanel], that he falls in love with at first sight.  The movie takes u through the 500 days of Tom’s life with Summer, including the ups and downs.  The best way to summarize this movie is a story about love, but it isn’t a love story. (more…)

And by this week I really mean tomorrow.  Releases are usually coming out on Wednesdays in Jamaica [but not set in stone] and this week news has hit that the newest releases at the theatres will be: (more…)

I notice that most of my lists are not specific to my inherent problem that I live in Jamaica. Now most of you non Jamaican readers out there will probably be saying “what’s wrong with Jamaica? I want to live there!!” and I would agree with you for all the reasons that you would give, great weather and all. However, when one of your huge hobbies/interests is movies it becomes a hell of a place to hate. The theatres here never release anything that doesn’t have at least twenty explosions or made by Tyler Perry. So here is me letting you all the movies that I totally want to see but probably won’t due to the fact that I live in Jamaica. (more…)

In this episode where Andrew & Douglas are left to fend for themselves they discuss David Fincher’s full catalogue of work, as well as review two new DVD releases City of Ember & Repo! – The Genetic Opera.

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 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 04 - Half the show reviewing Twice the movie]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download