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Stop This Xbox Live Video Marketplace Train Wreck, I Want To Get Off!
0 Comments Published by sirshannon November 25th, 2006 in Movies, TechIf you haven’t tried the new Xbox Live Video Marketplace, DON’T!
NoDa Film Festival Starts Today
1 Comment Published by sirshannon August 27th, 2006 in Movies, CLT, NC, USAThe NoDa Film Festival starts today at the Neighborhood Theatre. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Great Asian Cinema“.
I won’t be able to make all of the movies (though I hate to miss great FREE movies I’ll never see on a big screen elsewhere) but I will definitely make it out Wednesday for Battle Royale, […]
A Scanner Darkly era Interview With Philip K. Dick
0 Comments Published by sirshannon August 25th, 2006 in MoviesA 3+ minute video with highlights of a video interview with PKD around the time A Scanner Darkly was published, I assume.
[via boingboing]
This Week in Porn: FBI and EVH
1 Comment Published by sirshannon July 27th, 2006 in Movies, PoliticsEarlier this week, the FBI conducted their first ever 2257 inspection. The news is slowly spreading and is now to the point where Boing Boing has even posted a story about the Feds’ inspection of Diabolic.
In bigger news, Eddie Van Halen has recorded 2 songs for an upcoming Ninn Worx release. SWEET.
And, to […]
The Celestine Prophecy
IMDB
Year: 2006
Rating: 4 out of 5
Like so many others, I spent 2 afternoons read The Celestine Prophecy a little over a decade ago. I didn’t think it could ever be made into an enjoyable movie, even going into it tonight I thought it would surely be too […]
I had no clue… apparently it is true. Erika Christensen Is Not Julia Stiles. So my favorite Julia Stiles movie apparently isn’t a Julia Stiles movie at all. Damn. Who knew?
Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
IMDB
Year: 2006
Length: 94 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating from : R (Restricted)
UPC for dvd: 043396138384
ID in Amazon.com: B000EHRVP6
Rating: 3 out of 5
Everyone hates Merkins now, right? This movie shows what happens when dumb merkins travel abroad and rely on foreign intelligence… as filtered through the eyes of […]
V for Vendetta
Year: 2005
Writer: Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
Director: James McTeigue
Category: Drama
Media: Film
Rating from : R (Restricted)
ID in Amazon.com: B00005JOE8
Cast:
I bought the V for Vendetta graphic novel in the ATL airport on my back to the CLT (where I immediately went to see this movie, between the airport and home) and was worried for the entire trip that someone was going to snap a rubber glove and call me over behind some dark curtain due to my choice of reading material. What was I thinking? Nobody knows what I was reading, they would have had to read it themselves first to know how “dangerous” the ideas inside were. No chance of that.
I haven’t reached the halfway point of the book yet, so when I say that the movie seems to have captured the idea well enough to keep me from being pissed off (even though some HUGE changes are immediately noticable), you will have to bear in mind that I only halfway know what I’m talking about.
Here is what I do know:
This movie has been dumbed down a bit and, times being what they are, it has been made more relevant.
This movie is much better than the last 2/3 of the Matrix triology. But not as good as The Matrix.
Natalie Portman somehow looks better in this movie than ever before. I did not think that was possible.
The movie drained me, it was almost like work keeping up with the whirlwind trying to disrail the steam engine of a plot. So many ideas to burn into your psyche, so little time.
This is a “go see now at the theatre” movie, unless you have a home theatre like my roomy. 
Hustle and Flow (2005) is the Hip-Hop Purple Rain that 8 Mile wanted to be. How? By including all the things that made Purple Rain great that were missing in 8 Mile: A great (Oscar-winning, even) soundtrack (every song in Purple Rain was great, the only great song in 8 Mile was the one that […]
In the summer of 1989, The Charlotte Observer was B&W every day except for Sunday. The Friday that Batman (1989) was released, I was the fool on the front page that caused them to make an exception. If you were around the CLT back then, you might remember the photo of me and […]
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