Recently, there’s been some news from the Hollywood grapevine that Angelina Jolie will be playing Cleopatra in yet another celluloid remake of the film, the most famous (or notorious depending on your POV) being the 1962 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. In some of the articles I’ve read reporting that Jolie [...]
In the just released Cyrus, a film written and directed by brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, John (John C. Reilly) is an unlucky-in-love schlemiel who meets the girl of his dreams Molly (Marisa Tomei) at a party while taking a leak outside after getting sloshed. When that sophomoric plot device transpired on screen, I was [...]
Once upon a time there was a little movie named Titanic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, the 1997 James Cameron-directed movie, about the sinking of the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic, went on to become the top grossing movie of all time (until another little movie called Avatar [...]
I’m still here but I’ve been working on another project that’s been requiring a sizable share of my attention and time–which is why this blog has been somewhat quiet this week. Next up is the Chick Flicks Hunk spotlight on…Leonardo DiCaprio. He may be a marquee actor now but once upon a time, he was [...]
Next Wednesday the third installment of the Twilight series phenomenon will roll out much to the unvanquished thrall of its massive young to middle-aged female following. Starring Robert Pattinson as the brooding James Dean-like vampire Edward and Kristen Stewart as his mortal beloved, the somewhat butch Bella, the Twilight movies chart the volcanic ups and [...]
In a season that seems to be awash in–well, literally washouts (i.e. the unfairly critically savaged SATC2, Prince of Persia, Jonah Hex), there is one film coming up on the not-too-distant horizon (opening July 9) that might have the potential of being both a critical and commercial standout: It’s The Kids Are Alright, a comedy [...]
In I Am Love, the new film directed by Luca Guadagnino (who also wrote the screenplay), Emma (Tilda Swinton, who speaks in Italian) is a Russian-born and bred middle-aged woman married to Tancredi Recchi (Pippo Delbono), scion of a Milanese textiles magnate. She has two grown children, Edoardo (Flavio Parenti) who inherits the company (along [...]
Excruciating…tomorrow should be better. I’m planning on seeing I Am Love (a very pretentious title) starring Tilda Swinton. I believe this is about a trophy wife in Italy who falls in love with a much younger man and then leaves her family for him. Something like that. Not sure. I saw the trailer last week [...]
Since the 2009 release of the unexpected summer smash hit, The Hangover in which he starred, Bradley Cooper’s career has shot up like a rocket into the Hollywood stratosphere. He’s all over the celebrity rags, the TV talk show circuit, the online film blogs, etc. Turn on a TV tonight and chances are nine out [...]
Yesterday I checked the analytics on this blog (and thank you to all of you who visit and support it!!) and saw to my surprise that within the last 30 days, traffic peaked on June 10. So I checked out what was happening on June 10 and saw that was the day I posted my [...]