Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Sitter
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 22% (Critics) / 44% (Audience)
Directed By: David Gordon Green
Written By: Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka
Starring: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, J.B. Smoove and Sam Rockwell
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: A comedy about a college student on suspension who is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him. (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Abduction
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 4% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: John Singleton
Written By: Shawn Christensen
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Chico & Rita
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, and Fernando Trueba
Written By: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Fernando Trueba
Starring: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses and Mario Guerra
Studio: GKIDS
Synopsis: Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. (Source)
Prometheus Is The Movie I Most Want To See This Year
I have no clue what it is about exactly…is it a prequel to the Alien movies? Is it going to be totally unconnected from the alien franchise? Will it explain who or what that giant astronaut was at the beginning of the original Alien? I don’t know and really don’t care because I have never been this excited for a movie that is a total mystery to me as far as plot goes.
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Shuffling On My iPod: Estelle
Estelle feat. Janelle Monae – Do My Thing Continue reading Shuffling On My iPod: Estelle
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Underworld Awakening
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28% (Critics) / 68% (Audience)
Directed By: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Written By: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Stephen Rea and India Eisley
Studio: Screen Gems
Synopsis: Kate Beckinsale is back as leather clad vampiress Selene in the fourth installment of the Underworld movie franchise. This time out Selene has been cryogenically frozen for 12 years while the humans, now aware of the existence of vampires and lycans, have hunted the two species almost to extinction.
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The Walking Dead: 18 Miles Out Review
“18 Miles Out” can be described as a tale of two plots. One plot is action-packed and riveting while he other is dull and harkens back to the not so halcyon days of lounging around Herschel’s fair navel gazing with intermediate forays into the woods to search for Sophia…all the things about the first half of this season that made the viewer want to change the channel. Plot A focuses on Rick and Shane as they attempt to drop off Randall (the guy who got impaled on the fence last week) somewhere that he can have a chance to survive but not close enough that he can make his way back to the farm. Plot B focuses on Beth (who is no longer catatonic but still has the personality of doorknob) and the other women of the group except for Carol and Mrs Otis.
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Demons Never Die
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 41% (Audience)
Directed By: Arjun Rose
Written By: Arjun Rose
Starring: Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Jennie Jacques and Tulisa Contostavlos
Studio: Exile Media Group
Synopsis: After a teenage girl seemingly commits suicide, her fellow students (who have formed a “suicide club”) decide to speed up their own suicide pact. But when members of group begin to be murdered by a knife-wielding killer, the teens must discover who is behind the mask as they come to the realization that they do in fact want to live.
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Cover Me Monday: Seven Nation Army
This week’s cover is the Ben l’Oncle Soul version of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army“. The l’Oncle Soul version takes the well recognized and imposing guitar riff of the original and turns it into a groovy 1960s inspired soul/pop tune. It’s such a good take on the original that it has been copied almost note for note (extraneous runs included) by X-FACTOR UK runner up Marcus Collins. Check the Collins version out because the musical plagiarism is so shameless that it’s funny. Continue reading Cover Me Monday: Seven Nation Army
Oscar Predictions & Ruminations
The biggest night of the year for the movie industry is this Sunday and the civilized world is all a titter wondering who will win the Best Picture…the silent movie that no one saw or the overrated movie that George Clooney was in? Speaking of Clooney will he take home the Best Actor trophy or will Brad Pitt finally be recognized as a real actor by his peers? And will the two men remain BFF’s when it is all over? And most important of all who will win the Best Actress throw down? Will Glenn Close finally win an Oscar? Can Meryl Streep’s great performance overcome the crappy movie she was in? Or will Viola Davis continue the long tradition of the Academy recognizing black people only when they play one five types of roles…the crook, the ho, the clown, the crackhead, or the help? How the hell should I know? And why am I asking all of these rhetorical questions?
Well like 99.9% of the rest of the bloggers on the Intertubes, I may not have any inside knowledge on the Oscar races this year but I do feel an uncontrollable need to share my own opinions and prognostication skills with the World Wide Web. So to find out what a humble citizen of this Earth with too much free time on his hands and a love of cinema thinks will and should happen at the Oscars just click the linky-dink below this sentence.
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Carnage
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Yasmine Reza, Roman Polanski and Michael Katims
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Synopsis: After two boys have a fight on the playground their parents meet to work out the issue. What begins as a polite coming together for the children quickly devolves into truly messy situation.
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Innkeepers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Ti West
Written By: Ti West
Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: On the last weekend before the Yankee Pedlar Inn closes its doors forever, two of the inn’s employees (and amateur ghost hunters!) are determined to prove that the legend of the haunted hotel is definitely real to disastrous results.
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