Taken Directed by Pierre Morel With the arrival of the Obama age, filmgoers will now render their verdict on what remains of the spy thriller, a genre that found itself massively retooled during the Bush era. In the age of extraordinary rendition and “enhanced” interrogation methods, we had Jason Bourne, a newly brutalized James Bond, [...]
Don`t forget to come back and check out episode 91 of Sound On Sight when we start our look back at the history of the Academy Awards. For now here is a look back at the previous winners of best picture. Best Picture 1928-1938 Best Picture 1939-1949 Best Picture 1950-1959 Best Picture 1960-1969 Best Picture [...]
listen now Download show Over the last thirty years, moviegoers have endured countless films that carry the tag “slasher” – nearly all of them being direct descendants of two classic horror films, Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) and John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” Since then, they’ve become an efficient source for studios to make quick cash, as [...]
Listen now Download show With the Oscars just a month away, we take a look back at two Oscar-nominated films we did not have a chance to review yet. Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” is up for Best Foreign Film, although it might also have contended in the Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary categories, as [...]
Over the last thirty years, moviegoers have endured countless films that carry the tag “slasher” – nearly all of them being direct descendants of two classic horror films, Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) and John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” Since then, they’ve become an efficient source for studios to make quick cash, as they’re inexpensive to make [...]
Listen now Download show Horror historians can easily trace the origin of the slasher film back to Halloween, Black Christmas, and even Psycho. However, until recently, few but genre enthusiasts would point to the role early ‘copycat’ films had in keeping slashers alive the early 80s, before endless sequels sapped the lifeblood from the genre [...]
Listen now Download show Mendes made his directorial debut in 1999 with American Beauty, a tense suburban black comedy, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. The film won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as netting Mendes a number of seperate prizes for his direction. Mendes’ [...]
Listen now Download show “I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. I’m willing to give them 100 per cent this time. I just want a second chance at Hollywood.” Mickey Rourke Mickey Rourke has had quite a career. He has moved back and forth from boxer to actor, and back again. [...]
Listen now Download the show Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot, but previously he had been a theatre director. He won awards on Broadway as well as the West End. His next film was The Hours, and it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Nicole Kidman. Recently, he directed [...]
1- The Wrestler 2- Let The Right One In 3- Hunger 4- Wall-E 5- The Dark Knight 6- Milk 7- Paranoid Park 8- In Bruges 9- Happy Go Lucky 10- My Winnipeg 11- Rachel Getting Married 12- Man On Wire 13- A Christmas Tale 14- Waltz with Bashir 15- Forgetting Sarah Marshall 16- Synecdoche New [...]
Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007) 1- The Shining 2- Evil Dead 2 3- Re-Animator 4- Halloween (1978) 5- 28 Days Later 6- Planet Terror 7- High Tension 8- The Thing 9- Dawn of The Dead (1978) 10- Audition 11- Dead Alive 12- The Host 13- Slither 14- From Dusk Till [...]
Top 25 Heroes in Zombie films 25- Tim Blake Nelson – Mr. Theopolis (Fido) 24 – Asia Argento – Slack ( Land of the Dead ) 23 – Carla Green -Solitaire (Shadow – Dead Riot) 22 – Davis Warbeck – Dr. Mccabe (The Beyond) 21 – Mary Shelton – Dakota (Planet Terror) 20 – Ving [...]
Bale is known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight. The primary examples of this would be seen in such films as The Machinist, Batman Begins and, most recently, Rescue Dawn. He first caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg’s Empire [...]
10- The Happening – Bodies falling from the sky. 9- The Village – Dallas Bryce Howard almost falling in the pit. 8- Signs – Rev. Graham Hess tells us about the two different types of people in the world. 7- Unbreakable – The end. 6- Signs – The news report from the birthday party in [...]
Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film 10 – The sequence cutting back n forth between Burt Reynolds & Heather Graham in the limo and Mark Wahlberg getting beat up. 9- The first Dirk Diggler sex scene being filmed. The camera runs out of film but Jack Horner won’t call cut. 8- The [...]
The American: Visions of damnation
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Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)
8: The Mormon Proposition
This Movie is Broken
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Fausta: The Milk of Sorrow
MIFF2010: The Illusionist
Piranha 3d
The Switch
Afterschool
Rampage
Stonewall Uprising
Toronto After Dark 2010: Doghouse (Review #1)
The Expendables
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