Yes, we have another update to the best actors list, this time courtesy of Okinawa Assault. The choice has fallen on a character actor. Who? Find out here:
Another Friday, another installment of “The Many Faces of…”, this week with actress Naomi Watts. She grew up in the UK and moved to Australia at the age of 14, together with her mother and brother. She had acting lessons and went to high school where she was classmates with Nicole Kidman. She didn’t graduate and had different jobs, even trying modelling, after which she found her way into acting. She appeared in commercials and TV series and started acting in movies. She’s starred in movies like The Ring, Mulholland Dr., King Kong. Read more…
The loss of someone can be devestating and it has had its effect on William Keane (Damian Lewis). He has lost his 7 year old daughter at a bus station a while ago and regularly returns to the place with a news clipping to ask people if they have seen her. He replays the situation constantly hoping to find a new clue to find out where his daughter might be. Read more…
Cate Blanchett is this week’s star of “The Many Faces of…”. She was born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia. As she grew up her interest was in acting, did plays and started appearing in TV shows in 1993 (of which I haven’t been able to find images). She made the step into movies and has an impressive list of movies to her name. She won an Oscar for her role in the Aviator and was nominated four other times. Looking at her roles she’s an actress who can play anything and is able to transform her looks accordingly, reminding me of actor Gary Oldman who is excellent at that as well. Read more…
Do you have a movie instinct? You know that feeling you get by looking at a poster or a trailer of a movie and forming an opinion about that movie which usually is right? I’d like to think mine is pretty good, so when I read some information on this movie I thought I’d just watch the trailer as it would be a movie I wasn’t planning on watching.
The trailer basically is a copy of the Youtube hit “Epic Beard Man” where an old bearded man gets into a verbal fight with a fellow bus passenger who thinks he can beat him. Once he takes a swing the Epic Beard Man knocks him to the ground.
I thought it was intruiging that this was used as the thing to base the movie on, with Danny Trejo taking the role of the old man and thought I’d just give it a look, but was expecting a horrible film. Turns out that my movie instinct sometimes can be wrong. Read more…
The updates in this relay race seem to come faster by the week, with Alex from And So It Begins… already having posted his changes to the list of best actors of all time. He has added a very interesting foreign actor. Want to know which one? Head on over to his site now!
After watching Tarsem Singh’s Immortals, which had some stunning looking imagery, I was interested to see more of his work. I had bought The Fall a couple of months ago and hadn’t seen it yet so with my appetite wet I looked forward to jumping into another beautifully shot world. Did it offer more beauty and if so, is that enough? Read more…
Recently my friend Scott started his Midweek Mumble series about cinema etiquette and noise pollution.
It’s something most of us experience and get annoyed by. Chances are that if you are reading this you are a big fan of movies. You might talk about them a lot or even blog about them. Through the years your love for the medium has grown so much that it has become an experience you cherish. Movies have become sort of a religion where you silently want to experience every second the image is projected onto that big screen. You want to see the movie the way the director intended it to. I am like that as well. If I could I would love to buy all tickets for a screening and watch it alone, but unfortunately that would make it a very expensive hobby.
Fact is though that the annoyances exist and I started wondering why people would talk during movies and/or use their cell phones. So let’s get into the minds of the ones who cause so much distraction. Read more…
Werner Herzog had a dream to make the movie I reviewed yesterday, Fitzcarraldo. It’s about a man who wants to make his dream of building an opera house in the middle of the jungle a reality. Part of doing so is to pull a ship over a mountain in the Amazon. As Herzog found out, some dreams can slowly turn into nightmares. Les Blank documented it. Read more…
After reading about this on Tyler‘s site Southern Vision and knowing that this is a movie that is directed by Werner Herzog (one of my favorite directors) I really felt compelled to get my hands on this movie. I immediately bought it when I bumped into it at a store and was ready to make the journey into the Amazon, together with a crazy or brilliant opera lover by the name of Fitzcarraldo (played by Klaus Kinski) Read more…
Every year lots of movies are made and a big part of them are sequels. You might think that it’s a lazy way to just earn some extra cash, but I personally don’t think it is. It takes time to write a new script and all the people involved are (at least I hope there are) all trying to get a good movie out there. Nobody makes bad movies on purpose. Plus there are enough examples where sequels can be as good as the original movies (or even better). Just look at Star Wars, Toy Story, Indiana Jones (ok, maybe not the last one), Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, Terminator 2, The Godfather 2 and Aliens.
So let’s say you are running a studio and you could create a sequel (or prequel) to any movie you choose. Which movie would you pick and why? Read more…
This time it’s Eric’s turn over at The Warning Sign to make his changes to the best actors of all time list. Who will be added and to which actor can we say goodbye? Find out here
Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960 in North Carolina. Since her father was in the military she moved around a lot when growing up. She got her bachelor’s degree at the College of Fine Arts in Drama. She started out playing small roles and finally landed a role in the soap opera As the World Turns where she played twin sisters. She started appearing in movies and played in some succesfull movies like The Fugutive, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski and Magnolia. She received a lot of awards for her role in movie Far from Heaven. She currently has 69 credits on her name on IMDB. Read more…
You might be looking at that poster and wonder if you might have missed a Disney movie. Don’t worry, you haven’t. This was the original title of the Emperor’s New Groove. It is a documentary that was only shown once publicly after which Disney decided to put it in the vault. Somehow a work copy has found its way on the internet (at the time of writing is still available on Vimeo) and I couldn’t pass the chance to watch something Disney doesn’t want people to see. Read more…
Welcome to another installment of this weekly series, this week starring Australian actress Nicole Kidman. She was born on the 20th of June 1967 on Hawaii (also making her American). Her parents went back to Australia when she was four. There she went to several schools where she showed a talent for acting even though she was quite shy. She studied at various theatre schools. She had her first role at the age of 16 acting in a Christmas movie, Bush Christmas. It was followed by work in a TV series and various roles in other movies. She made her American debut opposite of Tom Cruise (who was her boyfriend at the time) in Days of Thunder and her star quickly began to rise. She won an Oscar for her role in The Hours. Read more…
