When I was a kid I back in the 60’s, I’d peruse the television listings every Sunday morning in the paper. I wanted to see what movies were being telecast that week. Before the funnies, church, or bacon and eggs, I would count the number of stars listed after each title. Those stars were my…
DetailsI hope the hype doesn’t get out of control on this movie, because it always ends up in a backlash. I don’t want to see that happen because Paranormal Activity is a fantastic low budget indie horror film. It really is. So hype monster, please stay away from this movie. Let it stand on…
DetailsWith only a few days until the return of the greatest adventure movie icon of all time, it seems only fitting I should discuss “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. If you’re expecting spoilers here, you might as well stop reading. or should you? “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is my favorite film.…
DetailsBeautiful Surf footage shoot in exotic locales with top notch surfers riding epic waves. You got it! The newest film by Nate Apffel (Host of Fins on Fuel TV) where he teams up with Hans Hagen to find the soul of surfing across the world.
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So you want to make a movie. The first and most important thing to do is to stop reading this column and go make a movie. Go ahead stop reading. Turn off your computer and get away from your desk! WAIT!! You know what? Read this first and make my boss happy. Then go…
DetailsWell, I did it. I got a manager. All that hard work paid off and I can finally kiss PA jobs and this column goodbye. I’m going to be rich soon, so I figure it’s okay if I tell you what went down. My partner and I had a few weeks off and decided we…
DetailsStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li lacks heart. It injects a handful of the player characters from the Street Fighter game into the most standard action-adventure plot this side of Star Wars. Yes, cue “Story” by Robert McKee and Joseph Campbell’s twelve steps of the hero. Although in this case it’s a heroine (go…
DetailsTwelve-year-old Molly is learning about civics in her fifth-grade classroom. And that’s about where this movie belongs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good movie, if you’re trying to teach voters about their civic duty and how in a billion-to-one fluke their votes might actually count. I do hope a G-rated version of the film…
DetailsIf this was a spoof, it wasn’t spoofy enough. And if this was pure action escapism, I cringe at the puny imagination of whoever’s getting their kicks from “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.” Kevin James takes his average Joe act from the King of Queens straight into this movie. He stars as the overweight but fairly…
DetailsI loved “Public Enemies”. I love Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, and both were in top form. I love the fact that we still have actors who can look like they belong in a tailored suit. “Public Enemies” was like an old-fashioned Clark Gable gangster movie, an inspiration which was referenced in the film itself.…
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