Posts Tagged ‘Editorial’

There have been many attempts in film to make a movie about time travel and even though many have survived the inevitable argument of creating more problems than they solve by keeping the film light it has been possibly the one most difficult plot device ever conceived for film.  Many have always had the thought “if I could go back and do things differently” and therefore we have always dreamed of time travel.  However, it’s something that raises so many philosophical and logical questions. (more…)

Now I’m not your typical Joss Whedon fan.  I hadn’t ever seen anything from him before this year.  Someone pointed me towards the internet sensation that was Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog and like Dorothy I followed the yellow brick road of Whedon properties to find the great wizard that I enjoy and decides to grant me my wishes of what I want to see (most of the time at least).  I spent a period of almost three months watching and catching up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer which I fell in love with.  I loved the story of a girl having to deal with the supernatural and at the same time balance teen life and maturing over the years.  Now I definitely don’t want to go and call it the best thing I’ve ever seen on TV (I leave those comments for things like The Wire) but I enjoyed it and would still recommend it to people to go and try out for themselves. (more…)

This weekend I decided to do what most of the movie going population and went and watched what had to be the biggest cash grab that has been shown at my local theatre all year, This Is It. First let me say that even though I will say that this thing which they showed to me last night fails to count as a movie as far as I’m concerned it definitely did not entertain me and by far did not make me proud to be a MJ fan.  This show made me sad, as an MJ fan, because it became painfully obvious ten minutes in that this was going be a huge waste of my time because I was going to have to sit through two hours of him skipping lyrics and experimenting moves with the set up on stage because it wasn’t a concert, it was a rehearsal.  There is a reason people rehearse, it is to perfect the show before they make people pay their money to see it.  So why did Kenny Ortega, the ‘director‘, think that I needed to see this?  Maybe it was because he was taken from us too soon, maybe because he got tired of reading emails from bummed out fans who actually had tickets to see him perform in London, or maybe he just plain didn’t give a damn.   (more…)

Now I’ve been promising this article for a few friends for a while and I’ve finally decided to get around to writing it. Some people are always criticizing me for my criticisms and even more my ratings at times. Some would say that my scale is ‘broken’ and others might say it leans on the side of horrible bias. However, I disagree. (more…)

Now I like many people love watching 80s movies. Especially ones starring Eddie Murphy (“Trading Places”[1983], “Coming To America”[1988], “Beverly Hills Cop”[1984]), but recently all his movies have been utter trash. I’m talking about, “Norbit” [2007], “Daddy Day Care” [2003], “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” [2002], and “Bowfinger” [1999]. The last movie (except for “Shrek” [2001] and “Shrek 2” [2004]) that I truly enjoyed that he starred in was “Life” [1999], which not only was before the turn of the last century/millennium but I’m sure if I watched it again now I would probably see a lot of problems and throw it in with all the other crap I mentioned above.

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Now I know this won’t be as controversial as if I had titled it “The Top Ten Directors of All Time”, because this way I’m able to defend my selection by simply stating preference rather than trying to stand behind some artistic values. And especially for those readers out there who know me will automatically know who my number one is and won’t try to argue with me, because we have already had this argument before and know exactly where it ends… it ends at the lonely dead end of personal preference. And I guess I’m writing this one more for those readers who don’t know me, and since I never really made a proper introduction when I started this site it will give you an idea of my theatrical taste rather than having to read through a dozen movie reviews and seeing if your preference and mine coincide.

So here we go…

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