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 [...]
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Quarantine the Movie
Posted in From the balcony, tagged Hollywood, movie, News, Quarantine, REC, Review, Romero, Trailer, TV, Zombie on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Posted in From the balcony, tagged Coming Attractions, Entertainment, Films, Media, movie, News, Poultrygeist, Review, YouTube on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Pixar’s latest gem…Wall-E
Posted in From the balcony, tagged Animation, Disney, Entertainment, Films, movie, Pixar, Wall-E on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Steven Spielberg under the magnifying glass
Posted in Cutting Room Floor, tagged Book, Entertainment, Filmmaker, Metro, movie, News, Phialdelphia, Review, Steven Spielberg on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steven Spielberg, one of the two most lucrative film directors in history (the other is George Lucas and his ILM studio – Industrial Light & Magic), has come under the watchful eye of scholars time and time again. He’s somewhat regarded as a “popcorn filmmaker” rather then a filmmaker with substance – exceptions would be his [...]
Taxi to the Darkside
Posted in From the balcony, tagged academy awards, anti, bush, documentary, film, movie, oscars, reviews on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This docmentary provides ”An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002″ (http://imdb.com/title/tt0854678/). In a world post 9/11, anti-Bush films are all the rage. Three of the four Academy Aware Nominees were anti-war [...]
