Monthly Archives: April 2006

More of The Small Screen Makes It To The Big Screen

Gurinder Chadha announced today that she would be directing the movie version of the popular night time soap opera “Dallas”. John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez are already on board for the big screen adaptation with more big names sure to follow. They will begin filming in October and the Dallas has a tentative release date…

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Stay Alive (2006: PG-13)

Stay Alive – 2006, Rated PG-13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441796/ Directed by William Brent Bell; Writing credits (WGA) William Brent Bell (written by) & Matthew Peterman (written by). Starring:  Jon Foster ….  Hutch O’Neill, Samaire Armstrong ….  Abigail, Frankie Muniz ….  Swink Sylvania, Jimmi Simpson ….  Phineas Bantum, Wendell Pierce ….  Detective Thibodeaux. A group of teenagers experience…

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Slither (2006: Rated R)

Slither – 2006, Rated R http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/ Directed by James Gunn, Writing credits James Gunn.  Nathan Fillion ….  Bill Pardy, Elizabeth Banks ….  Starla Grant, Gregg Henry ….  Jack MacReady, Michael Rooker ….  Grant Grant, Don Thompson ….  Wally, and more. A small hick town is bombarded by a meteorite carrying a slug-like worm that takes…

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Cinemas in Japan introducing ‘fragrant films’

The world’s first fragrant film will be shown in Japan this Saturday — and it’s gonna be… drumroll, please… Colin Farrell’s historical drama “The New World.” As the movie plays, a computerized fragrance system that offers 6 kinds of aromas (including forest and citrus) will emit scents from under cinemagoers’ seats, “depending upon the scenes…

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Scary Movie 4 – Back With A Vengeance

Well I must admit that I didn’t think that Scary Movie 4 was going to be a flop, but I certainly didn’t see it breaking any records. It did however. Today it was announced that scary movie is the first movie to take in $41 million on an Easter weekend. The creators have said that…

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Ice Age: The Meltdown Movie Review

    Ice Age part 2 was ok at best, it wasn’t excellent. I love the first movie but this one seemed like it was made just because there was still more money to squeeze out of the franchise. The movie wasn’t necessary and it seemed like it had no where to go but they…

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Kiefer Sutherland Reveals 24: The Movie, Is Coming

Actor Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed that a 24: The Movie is in the works. They are working on the script right now and he says that they might be shooting this summer. The movie obviously won’t take us hour by hour like the tv show but Sutherland believes that it would be a summary of…

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The 40 Year Old Virgin

The 40 Year Old Virgin was funny. Not uproariously so, but enough to brighten up a lazy Saturday afternoon. Steve Carrell, Daily Show regular and titular virgin, did a great job. Gotta give him credit for the chest-waxing scene, which was real. Pretty impressive — first, that anyone is so hirsute, and second, that Steve…

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Eternal Sunshine vs. Vanilla Sky

Neat title, eh? I saw both Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Vanilla Sky recently. They were similar, surprisingly. Both use convoluted dream sequences and a lot of temporal craziness to disorient the viewer. Still, they had their differences: Which is easier to follow? By the end of Eternal, I basically understood everything that…

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Summer Movie Blockbusters 2006

Every year we have a whole new list of blockbuster movies to go see or avoid at all costs. Here is a list of some of those movies for 2006. Can you tell which will be a flop and which will strike it big? I will be going to see MI:3, even though Tom Cruise…

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