Growing up in the 1990s, my cousins were into music by Nine Inch Nails and got me hooked on it. I was about 10 when they hooked me up with a cassette tape with some of their music. Soon I was looking for the NIN logo on any compact disc to build my own collection. What Trent was making helped get me interested in music and it was far from the music my parents listened to (I often wonder what…
In my formative years, Pierce Brosnan was James Bond and I loved him in those so I will always be a fan of his. Starring in Goldeneye in 1994, Brosnan played the character with wit, fun, and delivered on the action too. He made 4 Bond movies (1994-2002) and wanted to make more (I wanted him to as well). Specifically to have a darker take on the character which was done in the Bond franchise after him. With more than…
I spent the actual Mother’s Day with my wife and both of our families, and in the evening we watched the film Mother’s Day. Getting together with family on the holidays and having a meal has always been a tradition, whether we go out (like the brunch we had yesterday) or stay home (like the bbq we had later yesterday). Birthdays were the same too, go for a meal somewhere that has a huge table, not based on the food….
I am always impressed with Cate Blanchett’s range, passion, and how busy she keeps working! My first sighting of Cate was in 2001, the film Bandits with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. The same year she was in The Shipping News, Charlotte Gray, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Like a scene in LOTR where she played Galadriel (a role she has played 6 times 2001-2014), she is capable of frightening, sympathizing, and kicking…
When I was starting to watch grown up movies in the early 1990’s, I watched Pulp Fiction, and it amazed me how many talents were involved with the production. After watching two more Quentin Tarantino related films, Reservoir Dogs and From Dusk Till Dawn, I realized Harvey Keitel was in all 3 and was one of my favorite characters from each one. He was so cool bossing around John Travolta, tough consoling Tim Roth, and was just as intimidating fighting…
I saw this movie in 3D, (wearing my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles glasses, they also have a Star Lord version!) with an audience that found it as funny as I did. When a joke was said or Dave Bautista’s character Drax would laugh, nearly everyone was laughing out loud, and when everyone is up for that, (much like at a stand up comedy show, good ones anyway), you feed off the energy. The same can happen with scary/thrilling movies. Two…
In 2007, I enjoyed seeing Malin give Ben Stiller such a hard time in The Heartbreak Kid. Her singing, colorful language, and comedic timing made the film watchable, and gave Ben’s newly wed plenty to work with. Two years later she starred in Watchmen, a film version of the comic book series, as the superhero Silk Spectre II. Having someone in the film I cared about made it easier for me to understand what the male character’s motivations were. Malin…
Back in 1992, my family and I would rent a couple VHS movies every Sunday, this was one of those movies. Yes I returned the copy I rented, I watched this again recently on DVD. I liked seeing movies like Captain Ron because it had the same family headcount as my own, (2 parents, 2 kids) so it was easy for me to imagine what it would be like to be in it. That always added an extra joke for…
I first took notice of Tim in the Coen brothers directed O, Brother Where Art Thou? (2000). He played Delmar alongside George Clooney and John Turturro (frequent Coen bros. collaborators), and he has wrote and directed Eye of God (1997), The Grey Zone (2001), and Anesthesia (2015). He played a character who was not as sharp as the other 2 and he got my biggest laughs watching it. He may not be the lead in most movies but he makes…
I saw the first Fast and Furious movie when it came out on DVD in 2001 with my dad. He was a car guy growing up, so I missed some of the dialogue in the film with stories of quarter mile heroics, and Dukes of Hazard stunting in small town Alberta. I wasn’t a car guy like him. I have driven cars, but after seeing these movies I know automatics don’t count, and certainly not a hand me down granny…