Entries Tagged as 'From the balcony'

April 16, 2008

Quarantine the Movie

Imagine you’re a TV news crew following a team of Hazmat agents into an apartment building to evacuate its residents, but something horribly wrong happens and you’re team is now being chased by…Zombies (of sorts).
Sound stupid?
Sure does, but that doesn’t stop Hollywood from making it.
Quarantine, a remake of the Spanish film REC (which is only [...]

March 27, 2008

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

I consider myself to be a cineaste and I often check out the latest and greatest (though sometimes the greatest really suck!) film buzz on various movie sites. One site I view, almost everyday, is Movies
So having prefaced the site (yeah free plug for them - now where’s my money, haha?), I came across a [...]

March 25, 2008

The Wizard of Gore…

For those of you who saw “Juno” this year, there’s a scene with Ellen Page and Jason Bateman where they discuss films, especially gore-fest films. Jason’s character mentions a little film made in the 1970s called… The Wizard of Gore.
As an avid Netflix’er, I added that film (yes they do have it!) to my queue [...]

March 14, 2008

The Incredible Hulk or Incredible Whimp?

The Incredible Hulk TV show was a tad before my time, but I watched every, single episode when it went into syndication. I read the comics, the animated shows and, like most people, was highly excited when Ang Lee’s “The Hulk” was coming out back in 2003. The film was a dud!
It was laced [...]

March 13, 2008

In Maury we trust…

So, there’s this Maury Povich video making the rounds. Its a paternity test set to the tune of an E.P.T. pregnancy test commercial but with the traditional, “bitch, I told that I ain’t the baby daddy” feel to it.

Its a funny clip, but there’s so much subtext in there I think most don’t get past the “comical” [...]

March 12, 2008

Pixar’s latest gem…Wall-E

Pixar, the uber powerful animation studio, is releasing their final brainchild this summer, Wall*E.  When I say brainchild, I simply mean the last in a series of films that a group at Pixar wanted to make when they were forming a list of films to create. The list consists of: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, [...]

March 11, 2008

WE Channel’s new series: High School Confidential

WE Channel’s new series, High School Confidential, follows 12 young lady’s through all 4 years of high school.
I love this kind of documentary film-making. And to boot, it was created by a 1st time filmmaker - a mother in the community who wanted to REALLY capture the life young coeds go through in high school.
With all the [...]

March 5, 2008

New Indiana Jones Trailer

So, after 19 years and a string of flop films (Hollywood Homicide, K-19: The WidowMaker, Random Hearts, Firewall), Harrison Ford is donning the fedora and whip once again to play the immortal archaeologist on a quest, Indiana Jones.
First it was the Holy Grail, then the stones of Sheeba and then it was the cup of [...]

March 3, 2008

Is Will Ferrell losing his touch?

Jackie Moon, Will Ferrell’s lastest “sports spoof” film about a 1970s player/manager/owner of the worse franchise team in the ABA league, slam dinked its way to #1 at the box office this weekend will a measy $15.2 million.
Will’s last few movies: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Blades of Glory opened with much [...]

February 28, 2008

Kevin Smith cashes in on recent Parody Viral Videos

So, in keeping with the style of its two predecessors, Kevin Smith’s upcoming film, “ Zack and Miri make a Porno”,   uses the already overplayed Sarah Silverman/Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel/Ben Affleck spoof songs and makes one of his own, with Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen. That’s right, I said Seth Rogen
Its funny because [...]