Posts under ‘Movies’

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there, and especially to my mom and my wife, who is a great mom to our two wonderful kids!  And in honor of Mother’s Day, here are a couple of links to Premiere’s tongue-in-cheek lists of the 40 best and 20 worst movie moms.  My personal favorites [...]

As if the original movie wasn’t trippy enough, someone has found a way to make it even trippier.  Check it out here on (heh) Yooouuutuuube.

As a big Star Wars geek and somewhat Star Trek geek, I found this video pretty amusing, and well-done too.

Meant to post this one last week…here is a wonderful review of what happens in Hollywood when you combine my two favorite holidays:  Christmas and Halloween.
Top 10 Christmas Horror Movies
Happy holidays!  No, really!

I just read an interesting article that makes the argument that the Bourne trilogy of movies is the best American film trilogy around:
Why the Bourne Series is the Best American Film Trilogy Ever Made
He makes a lot of good points, and I’d be closer to agreeing with him if any individual film in the series were [...]

You know those AFI Top 100 lists?  This guy put together a very well-done montage that counts down from 100 to 1 via movie quotes, called 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers:
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 Fun:  how many of these movies can you identify?

An interesting take on the James Bond classic Goldfinger:
The dirty secret at the heart of Goldfinger
And you know what?  He’s right. 
(Don’t get me wrong.  I love Bond films.  Even the bad ones, because campy can be fun.  But the films did get awfully ridiculous as time went on, and with Pierce Brosnan (whom I [...]

William Arnold, a film critic with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer whom I respect a great deal, has written a review for The Bourne Ultimatum, which opens this weekend:
‘Bourne Ultimatum’ is spy trilogy’s final, and weakest, link
In the review, Arnold praises the movie’s effort to be different from other action movies, and notes the satisfaction it provides in [...]

A co-worker of mine has granted my wish:
The Man Who Saves the World (Turkish Star Wars)

Turkish-made film commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious bootlegging of Star Wars film clips worked into the film.  Released in 1982, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam was created in Turkey caught in the midst of massive political upheaval. [...]