Well, my Mom and my little sister and my stepfather are in the Boston area scoping out east coast colleges. Today we went to two major attractions of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Filene’s Basement. The Gardner museum was stuffed full of so much stuff, I started feeling a little dizzy after walking [...]

Wow. This is now one of my favorite films. One thing that I love about martial arts movies is all the moments of “Oh my god!!! How did he do that?!!!” that you get when watching someone truly exceptional do amazing things with their body. Tony Jaa is awesome. I had the same type of [...]

Just when I thought that Mr. Raimi wasn’t jerking everyone around about Evil Dead 4, it turns out he was.
I am SO psyched about seeing Ong Bak this week. I just watched the trailer again, and now I want to kick people.

If Shaolin Soccer wasn’t enough….Kung Fu Hustle (trailer) {via my sister}

Here we go!. I really have to actually read the Sin City graphic novels, I think I’ll be placing some interlibrary loan requests when I get back from vacation.

Clive Owen and Mike Hodges worked together on the film Croupier and get together again with I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a modern day film noir about a retired criminal who leaves his self-imposed exile when his little brother dies. The movie unfolds slowly, and the characters who reconnect after the tragedy have a shared [...]

I really don’t see him as Ash.

It’s too bad the characters Sean Bean always plays in Hollywood action movies always end up being thwarted bad guys. I saw National Treasure — I was expecting it to be a predictable Jerry Bruckheimer movie and it was — and I couldn’t help myself from wishing that Sean Bean would beat Nick Cage up [...]

You can search the MPA movie ratings database to find the reasons movies got their ratings:
Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, Rated R for strong stylized bloody violence.
Reign Of Fire, Rated PG-13 for intense action violence.
Pitch Black, Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore, and for language.
Princess Mononoke, Rated PG-13 for images of violence and gore.
Kill Bill Volume [...]

The trailer for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was playing in front of Sky Captain. Jim Carrey looked like a suitably scary Count Olaf, and the set design captures the creepy feeling of the books. I loved the shot of Violet tying her hair back with a ribbon, ready to start inventing her [...]