The 5th installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is in theatres so I re-watched part 4, On Stranger Tides. I liked that this one took a step back from the way overboard production that was part 3, as it put the focus back on the pirate rather than rely on the spectacle of computer animation (which there was still plenty of anyways). Characters you know are again doing what you like seeing them do, and a few new…
I saw Sicario in theatres and for a second time at home on Blu-ray, both times really getting into the tension the film created. Less so at home with the humming of my disc player getting so hot, almost making me consider an 81 minute feature like Ice Age instead. In theatres, the moments in the film with no music really got me excited to see how the scenes would play out as things seemed calm, you could hear a…
To this day, one of the most visually stunning movies I have seen is The Cell (2000 starring Jennifer Lopez), directed by Tarsem Singh. I liked the cast (including a freaky Vincent D’Onofrio and a more calm Vince Vaughn, making me look forward to more of all 3 of their work), and the premise (a social worker uses a new technology to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer), but it was the visual style that Tarsem brought to…
I grew up in the 1990s and thanks to my older sister who watched Wayne’s World on repeat (and can recite the whole film, not just Bohemian Rhapsody), I grew up laughing with Mike Myers. He was one of the first actors I knew was Canadian, which made me like him even more because I already really liked his humor and that he always seemed like such a nice guy. Mike was the reason I began watching Saturday Night Live…
Tv shows currently on the air (that phrase makes so much more sense nowadays) that my wife and I have watched together from the start, include Vikings and Designated Survivor. Every Wednesday night, we welcome Kiefer Sutherland into our homes, as would any good Canadian or American. Similar to the tv show The West Wing, I am a fan because of the quick pace, smart characters, and I have some amount of interest in politics, (I am not saying I…
I grew up watching movies that were a tad (absolutely) not made for my age range, Die Hard, Terminator, and in no particular order, Alien. That bleeping noise (not swearing here, it was an actual bleep sound) the marines would hear when their radar would tell them something was moving near them, still gets my heart pumping, not unlike the theme from Jaws. If we are talking any kind of space alien in movies, I did like The Predator better…
I recently saw The Fate of the Furious in theaters so I wanted to watch other movies starring cast members of the Furious franchise. After writing about Captain Ron and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Kurt Russell) and Prometheus (Charlize Theron), I wanted to share about 4 more that I recently viewed for the first time. They include Brick Mansions (Paul Walker), Blitz (Jason Statham and Luke Evans), The Game Plan (Dwayne Johnson), and Annapolis (Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster,…
Timothy was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, swam competitively in university, performed some stand-up comedy, and was acting in off-Broadway shows by age 27. He made his film debut in The First Wives Club (with Goldie Hawn in 1996), was in Scream 2 (with Neve Campbell in 1997), Go (directed by Doug Liman in 1999), and A Man Apart (with Vin Diesel in 2003). Larger roles came for Timothy in Live Free or Die Hard and Hitman (both in 2007), The…
I saw this movie in theatres twice, didn’t feel like I fully understood it, and I looked forward to watching it on Blu-ray with Director Ridley Scott’s commentary on. After watching a movie it interests me to compare what I thought of it to what the filmmakers were planning and to what others thought of it. Reading synopses, trivia, reviews, interpretations, and watching special features (in home film school!) all help me have a better understanding of what each film…
I first saw Tina on Saturday Night Live and thought she was hilarious, especially doing her Sarah Palin impression and co-hosting Weekend Update. She has excellent timing, delivery, and she can improvise, making her one of the best anchors of funny news shows ever. Equally talented in front of and behind the camera (she is a writer), she has made numerous characters that we care about and want to hear from. Pulling off an impression of a real life person…