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Movies: Michelle’s Top Films of 2009
Thank god this year of movie blandness is over. I generally detest doing lists of any sort. I barely remember the movies I watched last week, that alone mediocre films from months ago. When I do a year end top 10 list I try and have balance, but t...
MOVIE REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes – An Engaging Trifle That Mixes The Supernatural and Steampunk!
Let me be perfectly clear – although I’ve read the Holmes canon several time, and fifty or sixty [or so] of the multitudes of Holmes pastiches, I am not a Baker Street Irregular. Still, I would imagine that most Irregulars would find much to e...
MOVIE REVIEW: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasuss – Wonders of a Different Sort!
We all know the story of how Heath Ledger’s death almost derailed Terry Gilliam’s latest film – and how three of Ledger’s friends [Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell] stepped in to finish the film after Gilliam tweaked the script to a...
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes is one Ugly Looking Movie so says Michelle!
With the release of this year’s big budget Hollywood version of the iconic British detective, Sherlock Holmes, I thought now would be a great time to delve into Holmes’ world. I’ll admit up until this year I didn’t read th...
Movie Trailers: Young Victoria
Here’s a movie that I find intriguing, Young Victoria. I love a good costume drama, so this movie about Queen Victoria when she was young sounds interesting. It opened in limited release last weekend and is expanding over the next few weeks...
Movie News: Jackass 3D Coming Soon.
Is it possible for a technology to “Jump the Shark?” While watching Avatar in Imax 3d, I kept thinking wow this is going to change movie making as we know it. What 3D film could possibly top this? (I’m being sarcastic). Now I kn...
Movie News: Blue Balls rule Box Office, Avatar cleans up!
Holly Blue Balls, hey I get to say that twice in one movie year. Despite a snowed in East Coast, Avatar cleaned up at the Box Office. It’s projected to bring in about $73 million bucks domestically and $159 million internationally for a tot...
Movies: Brittany Murphy, Found Dead today, at age 32.
Brittany Murphy is one of those actresses that I always found her pretty interesting to watch despite the fact that she always looked like she was high. She had that mysterious “it” factor that I always talk about. A few weeks ago I w...
Movie Review: Michelle is NOT on the AVATAR Bandwagon! Thinks it’s Boring, Lifeless, and oh yeah the 3D Kind of Sucked!
I went to the my new favorite mall today, Palisades Center Mall in NY to check out James Cameron’s Avatar 3D on a real iMax Screen, not the fake Max that’s near my house in MD. I walked into the theater ambivalent about what I was abo...
MOVIE REVIEW: Avatar – Pandora: You are THERE!
I’ve just returned from an alien world. That’s what it feels like after seeing Avatar. I’ve heard all the negative buzz: it’s Dances With Wolves in CG [really? You consider that a Bad Thing?]; some of the dialogue is clunky [I prefer blunt...
MOVIE REVIEW: Up in the Air Makes It Three Straight Great Films For Reitman!
Ian Fleming’s great spy, James Bond, once said, “Once is chance; twice is coincidence, and three times is enemy action.” Tailoring that reasoning to filmmaking: a director making one great film could be chance – a confluence of events that...
MOVIE REVIEW: The Unconquering Spirit of Invictus
A day that will live in history in South Africa occured on February 11, 1990 . It was the day that South African Nelson Mandela was finally released after serving 27 years in prison. Three years later, Mandela became a candidate, on behalf o...
Movie Screening: Want to see Sherlock Holmes?!
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for! We’re closing the year with a Bang! Our buds at Warner Brothers have given us a boatload of tickets for Sherlock Holmes! The screening will be at our top-secret location in Washington, DC, ...
MOVIES & TELEVISION: Gene Barry, Star of The War of the Worlds, Bat Masterson, Dead at 90.
Gene Barry, best known for playing Dr. Clayton Forester in George Pal’s groundbreaking 1953 film The War of the Worlds and the dandified marshal, Bat Masterson in the series of the same name, died December 9th. Cause of death is, as yet, unknown...
MOVIE REVIEW: The Road Is Long and Hard and Not Particularly Hopeful!
I have not read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road so I came to the film with no expectations in that regard. What I saw was a bleak, dank, relentlessly dark film in which every time hope raised its head, it was peremptorily smacked down, which makes th...
MOVIE REVIEW: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Fabulous Fake Fur Fun!
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the best films of the year! Adapted from – and expanded upon – Roald Dahl’s excellent book, Fox is an original. An organic delight from start to finish. The story of a slightly egocentric fox [h...
MOVIE REVIEW: Ninja Assassin: Dark and Grim; Bleak and Bloody!
Just to make sure that we know what we’re getting in Ninja Assassin, the film’s first sequence wastes no time telling us. A gang boss is getting a tattoo when a letter arrives. It is sealed with wax and when he breaks the seal and opens the ...
MOVIES: Gerry Anderson’s UFO May Spawn Movie Starring Joshua Jackson!
According to Variety.com, Fringe’s Joshua Jackson has signed on to play Paul Foster, a test pilot who finds himself working for S.H.A.D.O. [Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization], a shadowy organization headquartered beneath a Hollyw...
Movie News: Twilight Crushes at the Box Office
New Moon has the 3rd biggest opening in the history of film raking in an estimated $140.7 million in domestic grosses. That represented the third-best opening ever, after 2008’s "The Dark Knight" ($158.4 million) and 2007’s...
MOVIE REVIEW: Michelle Reviews Twilight: New Moon and declares she’s Team Jared!
It’s hard to believe that my first movie review in months is this. The sad thing about Twilight: New Moon is that I went in with very low expectations and found the movie to be ok, but here’s the thing – Bella Swan (Kristen Stew...
MOVIE REVIEW: 2012 – Great Bad B-Movie Fun on an Epic Scale!
It starts with an Indian geologist, Dr. Satnam Tsurutami [Jimy Mistry] alerting American geologist Dr. Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetal Ejiofor] of rising temperatures in the world’s deepest copper mine [handily already mined out]. This is tied into ...
MOVIES: Scorsese To Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award!
Director Martin Scorsese is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes. The award will be presented to Scorsese at the 67th annual Globes on Jan. 17, 2010. Scorsese turns 67 next week and is an Academy Awa...
MOVIE REVIEW: The Fourth Kind – Cynical, Manipulative Tripe!
Everything that the ultra-low budget did right, The Fourth Kind gets wrong. The mawkish, amateurish Paranormal Activity felt more real by doing very little, but timing it well and giving us characters we could care about – even if they weren’t...
MOVIE REVIEW: The Men Who Stare At Goats Made Me Laugh!
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opens with the disclaimer: More of this is true than you would believe. Based on the non-fiction book of the same name, it is a film that looks at the U.S. Armed Forces’ attempts to explore the possibi...
MOVIE REVIEW: Disney’s A Christmas Carol Is No Humbug!
Disney’s A Christmas Carol surprises in that not only is it a wonderful film, it doesn’t actually dress up the tradition Dickens tale with too much action movie fooferaw. By now, what with everyone from Mr. Magoo to Tim Curry having played ...
Movie Screening! No Hassle DC Screening of The Box!
Our good friends at Warner Brothers Pictures have given us some passes to next Thursday night’s Washington, DC screening of The Box. The trailers for this actually look pretty good. The screening will be held Thursday, November 5th...
Movies: Twilight Cast Coming to Washington, DC and other Malls Near You!
Hey all you crazy Twilight Fans. In celebration of the recently release Twilight: New Moon Album and the upcoming release of the movie the cast and crew from the movie are hitting the road for the next few weeks. In some locations not only will ...
MOVIE REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are – Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!
Spike Jonez’s Where the Wild Things Are does what was thought to be impossible: it turns a forty page book with barely ten sentences [fifty-nine words] into a lovely, scary, fun film. Maurice Sendak’s children’s book treats children as thoug...
MOVIE REVIEW: Law Abiding Citizen Great Nasty Fun Until the Wheels Drop Off!
After Clyde Shelton’s [Gerard Butler] wife and daughter are murdered, Assistant D.A. Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx] makes a deal with one of the killers to put the other on death row. The deal maker pleads to third-degree murder and gets a remarkably sh...
MOVIE REVIEW: Paranormal Activity Works For One Reason: It’s Very Good!
By now, pretty much the entire North American population is aware that Paranormal Activity – the little movie that could – was shot on a budget of $15,000. College and midnight screenings were packed and the response was almost universally goo...
