Monthly Archives: May 2010
Retro Review: The Island
Could “The Island” be that “Logan’s Run” remake we have all been waiting for?
Retro Review: Click
How we all yearn to control our lives more. Stop enjoy the beautiful moments, skip the uncomfortable situations and advance past the work day so we can get some quality time with the people we love. As many pop-singers and philosophers have uttered, “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” But it’s those in between moments [...]
Cable summer premiere dates (courtesy: The Live Feed – THR)
SOURCE: Cable summer premiere dates — The Live Feed | THR. June 3 Burn Notice (USA), 9 p.m. Royal Pains (USA), 10 p.m. June 6 The Hard Times of RJ Berger (MTV), 10 p.m. Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime), 9 p.m. June 8 Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family), 8 p.m. June 13 True Blood (HBO), 9 p.m. [...]
Retro Review: Daredevil
When I was a mere squirt of about 13 years old, a comic book taught me a few lessons that I haven’t forgotten to this day. This comic book was Daredevil. The new feature film based on the popular Marvel Comics character, Daredevil, stars Ben Affleck as attorney-vigilante Matt Murdock who prowls the roof-tops of [...]
Movie Review: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Like sands through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Well, that seems to be the case with Persian lives anyhow.
Retro Review: Derailed
Those lonely commuter train rides really can get to us. The faceless strangers we are crunched together with as we are shuttled around until we reach our next stop. A sigh of relief as we can breathe for a minute then its back into the mosh pit we call a bus or train. Ah, thank [...]
Retro Review: Old School
Animal House it is not! But does have it’s laugh out loud moments!
Retro Review: Shaft
Written: June 19, 2000 The greatest blaxpolitation hero returns with a new face and that same old attitude and style for a whole new generation. The title of the film “Shaft” refers to the title character John Shaft (now played by Samuel L Jackson) who in the early seventies captivated audiences with his cool attitude, [...]
Retro Review: Bless the Child
A heroin addict’s child could be the savior of man but first she must face a series of temptations sent by Lucifer himself. Kim Basinger stars in “Bless the Child” a story that centers upon a childless mother who is forced to look after an abandoned child after her sister leaves the child. Basinger’s sister [...]
Retro Review: Nacho Libre
That zany Jack Black is at it again. He’s rocked the school, questioned our taste in music and chased a giant gorilla. Now he’s taking on the Mexican world of professional wrestling as a masked luchador. Black stars as Ignacio, a lovesick monk who is infatuated with the new nun, Sister Encarnación (Ana de la [...]
