Category Archives: Film

New Blade Runner Gives ‘Climate Change’ A Starring Role

Instead of just making a great movie to follow up with the original, one of the great all time science fiction movies, based on the story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, they decided to give it a Message, guaranteeing lower box office draws (Washington Examiner)  The sequel to the 1982 […]

Disney: Nope, Not Paying Ransom On Hacked Pirates Of The Caribbean 5

Had you heard that Disney had been hacked, and had the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales stolen? Whomever did this was threatening to release it in drips and drabs. Well… (Breitbart) Disney is refusing, thus far, to buckle to hackers’ ransomware demands to return the new edition of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead […]

Review: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

I was finally able to find the time to go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens this afternoon. I caught the 3D viewing, and, I’ll say that the hype was worth it. As you might remember, when I find a movie to be really good, I do not go into a long review of it. […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Yes, totally psyched. However, I have one bugaboo: if this is taking place 30 years after Return Of The Jedi, that means that, according to the Expanded Universe, Chewbacca has been dead for 9 years, since the character was killed off in the book Vector Prime, during the Yuuzhan Vong war, which takes place 25 […]

Many In Leftist Hollywood Are Questioning Whether We Should Be Celebrating The Life Of A “Killer”

It’s time for another Here we go ‘American Sniper’ Complaints Grow in Hollywood: Should Clint Eastwood Be Celebrating a ‘Killer’? (Exclusive) Even as “American Sniper” breaks January box-office records and revels in six Oscar nominations, criticism over the subject of the film, sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is rising and reaching into the Academy of Motion Picture […]

Leftist Al Sharpton To Attack Leftist Hollywood Over “Selma” Snub

Get your popcorn ready! Leftists are outraged by the Academy Award nominees Oscars: Acting Nominees All White The Oscars Haven’t Been This White in 19 Years Why Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’ Oscar Snub Matters Selma was snubbed because the average Oscar voter is a 63-year-old white man Once Again, Race and Gender Factor into Everything, Including […]

Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer

Looks interesting, but, I don’t want to get psyched up till I actually see it. The prequel had its good parts and bad parts. I loved Revenge Of The Sith, the sequences showing what the Jedi can do really were incredible. That said, had they added about 5 minutes of stuff to really put you […]

Anybody Watch “The Strain”?

Hey, a non-political post. The Strain, based on the books by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, just made it through the first season, and, if memory serves, the first book of the trilogy. It’s been quite some time since I read the novels. I must say I loved this show. Was it a bit […]

Will Godzilla Start A Revival Of Monster Movies?

And by a revival, we’re talking about remaking many of the old ones, from the start of film making through really about the early 1960’s. That’s the question that was discussed briefly on WTTK here in Raleigh. The genre never really went away. There are certainly movies here and there. Some are remakes. Ho many […]

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug – My Take

It’s been quite a bit of time since I went to the movies. There has been little out recently which I’ve been interested in seeing in the theaters. Despite the big, and sometimes substantive, changes made to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as well as what Peter Jackson and company did to the Lord Of […]

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