Le Mans, about well, the race. Steve McQueen is awesome, of course. More importantly though, it appears to be the 1971 Hollywood answer to Asia's NINJAS! ;-p

2008's Bottle Shock, based upon the true story of the unexpected California Napa Chardonnay victor in a blind tasting in France in 1976.

Fun (though doesn't use Alan Rickman to his full potential), contrived (how many boxing matches? car breakdowns?), formulaic (guy-girl-guy, oh, and let's have the blonde revolving in the sun on a hill), and ( Read more... )

...Or the James Bond School of Interior Design (and Rapid Redecoration)

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You can pay $10.25 a ticket or carefully storyboard a collection of architectural magazine pages - and then burn them to exciting music and sounds of physical exertion. ;-)

Don't get me wrong, it's a good Bond film, ( Read more... )

I needed something silly and stupid after the stressful workweek it's been ... and Tropic Thunder delivered, at least initially. The funniest bits were truly funny, and unfortunately almost exclusively in the beginning of the film. For whatever reason, the film forgot it was supposed to be a comedy, and fell entirely into an action homage (without ( Read more... )

The Dark Knight hit the cinemas this last Friday, and it's been a smash hit - deservedly so ( Read more... )

On the one hand, as an animation, it does well for lacking Hayden Christensen or Jake Lloyd...on the other, the preview succeeding in sucking all the life out of the theme ( Read more... )

So, went up to Benicia, met up with Julia, and we caught The Golden Compass.

General overview: frankly, I think the critics were a bit overly critical. For a film adaptation of a relatively complicated book, The Golden Compass is head & shoulders above The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe^. TGC was good fun, well-cast, excellent CGI, good ( Read more... )

Besides the odd swimming feeling after removing the 3D glasses and confronting unfiltered reality, I thought the 3D version of Beowulf rather good ( Read more... )

Now that many of you on my FriendList have seen at least one of the two halves of Grindhouse...

Poll Machete - the movie?

EDIT: There will be naming rights challenges.

Across the Universe, a new musical, all Beatles songs, apparently.