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Is is just me or is everyone incredibly offended by the film The Help? I wasn't even aware that it was supposed to be based on the Civil Rights movement. I was
Read more…I hope Cranston gets to see this and puts up a review when he does. My own post is just going to be a lot of gushing.
See Attack The Block! It's a great movie!
Set in a London low-rent housing complex, it involves a tightnit cadre of inner city youth
Read more…I wasn't into Captain America, growing up, but this latest cinematic treatment of Cap is a winner. Great action, fantastic special effects and a fine story. Who could possibly go wrong casting Hugo Weaving as Red Skull? Chris Evans did a good job por
I would characterize Rise of the Planet of the Apes as a “delightful” movie, but for an action/adventure, horror or SF movies, that’s not a compliment. SF movies can be “edgy,” “insightful,” “awe-inspiring,” “thrilling,” even “derivative.” But not “
There’s context (what the artist means to say) and subtext (what the artist says unintentionally but the audience picks up on). This is to say the Tea Party has invaded pop culture. It’s very evident in the television series Falling Skies and has fou
It seems that Marvel Studios/Paramount have had better luck with their superhero offerings that the other studios: Warner Bros. Green Lantern was disappointing and Sony/Columbia’s The Green Hornet wasn’t even that good. But X-Men: First Class was an
The Harry Potter phenomenon was, well, phenomenal. First-time novelist J.K. Rowling (How magical is that?) created not a series of seven stories but one story broken into seven parts. (Well, 450 million parts, if you count the number of individual bo
Went to see Transformers 3 last night and I must say this: the reason the Iron Man movies worked so well is that it's not bogged down with a superfluous love story. That being said this movie was only one step above mediocre. Xmen still has my vote a
Read more…Ok, let’s get this out of the way first: ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS MOVIE ARE KILLED BEFORE THE END. And one may even be considered the victim of a black-on-black crime. For some of you, I just saved you the price of a ticket.
You’re welcome.
Now, fo
Read more…X-Men Second Class
When I saw the trailers for X-men First Class I was excited at the concept of seeing the back story of the characters we have grown to know so well. I submit to you that X-men First Class should have been called X-men Second Clas
Read more…When I first heard that Kenneth Branagh was directing the big screen adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Thor my second thought Slumming. (My first thought was What the--?) He had some genre associations with his direction of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (19
Read more…If the comics and movies have taught us anything it’s that being a superhero is not fun. Sure, you can do whatever a spider can and leap tall buildings in a single bound, but it never seems to make the people who can do that happy. Did you ever see B
-- Disney's first black princess comes 72 years after Snow White with their production of "The Princess and the Frog". Now, a few guys with a startup budget of less than $5,000 dollars have produced titles that can be compared with that of Pixar and
I saw Tron Legacy after working my midnight shift, myabe I was tired But there was nothing Iconic about this film. This movie made me want to see the Tron 82 once agian. The visuals are great, the disc game was ok, the fighters tired to mix fung fu a
Okay, so I waited for this one as a Netflix watch because I saw just too many reviews about it not being very good.
What a great day! I attended a screening of Pumzi at Chicago's DuSable Museum and was privileged to hear BSFS member and accomplished author Nnedi Okorafor read from her latest novel Who Fears Death.
Christopher Nolan is known for directing two movies: Batman (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) and those other ones. The Batman movies were pretty good. The other ones
weren't so bad either.
His latest “other” movie is Inception and taken as a group
Read more…I saw this on Sunday, with my son.
I'm sure everyone on BSFS is familiar with the premise: Through a combination of technology, training and drugs, its possible (in what looks like present day society!) to go into someone's dreams and share them and
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