Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42% (Critics) / 41% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Amiel
Written By: Cooper Layne and John Rogers
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Tchéky Karyo, DJ Qualls and Delroy Lindo
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again. (Source)
It’s always interesting to me to hear how a song originally sung by a less than stellar vocalist sounds when attempted by someone with a real voice. That is why I like the Jessie J live version of Rihanna’s “We Found Love”. Rihanna is a total studio fabrication whose vocals sound like a mix between a robot and a rejected American Idol contestant. Jessie J on the other hand can actually sing. Sure she has a penchant for overindulging on ad libs and runs but when she is under control she is one of the best young voices in music. … Continue reading Cover Me Monday: We Found Love
Part fish! Part snake! All killer! In B-movie icon Roger Corman’s latest, a hybrid creature – half piranha and half anaconda — attacks a movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly Piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg – before they all become dinner. – Facebook
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 36% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Berg
Written By: Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
Studio: Universal
Synopsis: Peter Berg produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force in this film inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval combat game. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Larry Charles
Written By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas and Ben Kingsley
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. (Source)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vJdU3XrS_Q Ya can never go wrong with Chris Meloni playing a bad guy as far as I’m concerned. The new season of True Blood airs Sunday, June 10 at 9 PM ET on HBO. Continue reading Trailer of the Day: True Blood Season Five
With a nod to blogging brethren jmount43 for the recommendations, I present to you this week’s cover songapalooza featuring Dolly Parton’s classic “Jolene” sung by both nascent alterna-folk singer Mindy Smith and the Norah Jones side band The Little Willies.
Chester French – Black Girls Continue reading Shuffling On My iPod: Chester French
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 41% (Critics) / 58% (Audience)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: Seth Grahame-Smith and John August
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter and Eva Green
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94% (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Written By: Joss Whedon and Zak Penn
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. (Source)
AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It Continue reading Shuffling On My iPod: AlunaGeorge
Hell hath no fury like a woman scored — and her father — in this tense tale of terror from Australia. Brent (Xavier Samuel) is driving home late one night with his father when he swerves after seeing something in the road. The car spins out of control, and moments later Brent’s dad is dead. Brent is wracked with guilt over the incident, and sinks into a deep depression, only beginning to sort out his feelings when he begins dating one of his classmates, a pretty and nurturing girl named Holly (Victoria Thaine). However, another young woman at school, Lola (Robin McLeavy), has taken an interest in Brent, going so far as to ask him to escort her to an upcoming dance. Loyal Brent turns Lola down, but he learns the hard way she doesn’t handle disappointment well. Lola and her wealthy father (John Brumpton) force Brent to attend a private party at a cottage in the woods, where he’s the only guest and Lola and her dad mete out brutal punishment for daring to hurt her feelings. – Rotten Tomatoes
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