Archive for the 'Movies & Film' Category

Singing in the Movies: The Best Scenes, Part I

Movies have employed music for many decades, and there are a few films that have used songs to great effect. This is a short list of the best movie scenes featuring singing:
 

Cabaret - “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
An upstanding-looking young boy sings a beautiful song that very quickly turns into something rather ugly. The fact that […]

13 Worst Movie Trilogies of All Time

13. The Matrix (The Matrix, The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions)
The Matrix was the feel-good lunch table discussion topic in my High School some eight years ago, and its quite clear why: not only was there an excellent story (though we had seen it before in Dark City), there were guns and chicks in leather […]

Musical Biopics, and the Rabbits Who Love Them

A rundown of movies based on the stories of music artists or bands.

10 Best Movie Trilogies of All Time

Film franchises are often created with trilogy in mind. Other times, sequels ride on the coattails of the original installment’s box office success.
This is a look at the ten best movie trilogies of all time.
 
10. Back to the Future 1-3
Great Scott! I was a mere eight years old when this trilogy wrapped in 1990, but I remembered […]

An Analysis of the Batmen

A look at the men who have played Batman in film and television.
 
Adam West
Batman (TV Series, 1966-1968)
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Adam West spent two years playing Batman on the original TV series as well as the deliciously campy movie treatment, but never fully escaped the typecasting of being Bruce Wayne.
The original series was genius in […]

September 2007: Upcoming Movies Reviewed, Part II

Reviewed: Resident Evil: Extinction, Into the Wild, Good Luck Chuck, The Brave One
Click here for part I of this series

8 Chick Flicks That Guys Secretly Like

A list of 8 girly films that men watch in secret

September 2007: Upcoming Movies Reviewed, Part I

Three films from September 2007 reviewed