Colin, the new British zombie movie which is due to go on general cinema release in the near future cost the makers just £ 45 (no I haven’t forgotten the million part…forty-five pounds sterling) and it was filmed using two cheap video cameras. Even the Blair Witch Project which caused a flood of shaky camera movies to follow had a massive budget for such a low quality film. Colin, which is set in London, was picked up by a very interested distribution company who plan to give the movie some general exposure. As with all low budget movies the director (Marc Price) used mainly family and friends to shoot the movie but the outcome is fantastic. The budget for Colin was mainly spent for tea and coffee for the cast and crew and one crowbar which was necessary for a particular scene.

The movie was edited in the directors bedroom and he can hardly believe that “Colin” has been picked up by a distribution company. What makes the filmmaker of Colin most happy is the fact that this may give other small time movie directors the chance to get their work out to bigger audiences. Colin get its British premiere in “The Empire” cinema in Leicester Square next month and despite almost 60 movies being released every month the extra hype created around the budget cost of Colin may be a selling point that will avoid it being lost in the crowd. The rave reviews coming from Cannes lead us to believe that this will be a real fairytale ending.

So if you fancy flesh gnawing type movies then maybe Colin the zombie movie may be right up your street and you will be supporting the little guys in an industry generally driven by over budgeted drivel.

Goodfellas, also known as Goodfellows, which was originally called Wiseguys before being brought to the silver screen is a gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese. Released in 1990, this mob film remains to be a favorite gangster movie for many who likes this films of this genre. In many mob movie lover’s eyes, Goodfellas is even better than The Godfather, another very famous movie.

With a cast full of famous “mobsters” stars like Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and many others, Goodfellas potrayed the reality of life within the mob to the hilt. In a page page dedicated to the film at the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb, some fun facts about the movie which I doubt anyone would have taken noticed is revealed. For example, the four letter “F” word was uttered “296 times, for an average of 2.04 f##ks per minute”, more than half by Tommy (Joe Pesci) alone.

Though splattered with obsenities, vulgarities, violence and gore, the file received rave reviews upon release thanks to the solid acting by the casts, first class cinematography, and a killer soundtrack. It is an “ageless” film by all standards and one can watch re-runs of Goodfellas time and over again and never get bored with it.

As in most mobster movies, Goodfellas with all it’s profanities is a “man’s” movie. It will not go down well with God loving people as the Lord’s name was inappropriately and repeatedly used. Some who actually counted reported at least 15 instances. Women with a “respectable” upbringing will quiver while watching the movie and of course, parents will never be watching Goodfellas during a cozy family get together.

Nevertheless, Goodfellas went on to an array of film awards which includes an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role to Joe Pesci , It was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lorraine Bracco), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), Best Picture (Irwin Winkler) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese).

Other notable winnings includes awards from the Venice Film Festival (1990) and many others in and around USA.

For those who missed Goodfellas on the big screen, it is still available in DVD in major stores around the world. Most if not all online shopping portals still carries the title. Should be under the Classic category. Just make sure you watch this movie when your underage children are in bed.

The famous quote “What S The Most You Ever Lost On A Coin Toss” comes from the Fargo creator’s movie, “No Country For Old Men”. The Coen brothers brought us great movies such as “The Big Lebowski”, “Raising Arizona”, and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”. In this horror film is a dramatization of random murder not only told in chilling detail from the original book, but in very graphical violence. While not majorly credited, Tommy Lee Jones plays a local law enforcement official (of course, he always plays the law). This scary horror thriller takes place in both Texas and Mexico, and the story backdrop is about a drug deal gone bad, where a lot of innocent people get murdered by the crazed drug dealer. If this sounds like fiction, I assure you it is not because this is exactly the kind of thing that is going on in real life at the Texas/Mexican border, and the reason why so many residents in Texas are arming themselves and fearful of drug dealers and drug raiders/czars/kingpins. To add to the fear of this movie, the crazed killer flips a coin (much like Harvey Dent from the Batman universe) and if you have “bad luck” you’re going to die.

This film is extremely gruesome and definitely something only strong hearted adults should watch, especially the scenes where the drug dealing serial killer asks his soon to be murdered victims “What S The Most You Ever Lost On A Coin Toss?” If you can stomach and see past the violence, you see that the real point of the view is about how we view and deal with crime, and the ever changing world that is evolving all around us. Because the world has changed so much, so too must our society. Some hold that sheriffs should arm themselves even more (escalation) because despite crime being overall lower today than it was decades ago, there are some very sick people out there and they are extremely armed, and extremely violent, which is what this movie is trying to show. But there are other implications as well to this. Residents have good reason to fear that arming our local police forces may look frighteningly similar to a military force, as if we’re all slaves of a police state. While we are safer and hopefully more secure, it does come at a potential price because when the police are strong, a Hitler may rise to take them over and use them against us. In our efforts to stop drug dealers or other murderers from outside our borders, how far are we willing to go to stop these people, and at what cost? If any of you see “No Country For Old Men”, I highly recommend keeping this in mind while you watch this film. After all, the most you ever lost on a coin toss could be your freedom (and life).

I guess people are still fascinated with Elvis Presley, and the the 1963 movie “It Happened At The World s Fair” is a popular choice amongst Elvis Presley enthusiasts. It is found only on VHS but a major company was able to finally be granted the rights or license to release this classic movie onto DVD format, where the visual quality, sound, and of course sales, will be much better than on the old VHS (as you know VHS players probably aren’t around anymore, even I don’t own any video VHS players). What sets this movie apart from many other Elvis movies is that it shows a humble Elvis (pretty different from other Elvis movies) that is being hooked up with a nurse by a young Chinese girl, and I think that is cute. We also see Elvis as a compassionate, loving man for a lost little girl, much like an adoptive father almost. And it wouldn’t be an awesome Elvis movie if the person playing Elvis didn’t sing his famous songs, such as “Relax”, “Beyond The Bend”, “Take Me To The Fair”, “They Remind Me Too Much Of You”, “How You Would Like To Be”, “Cotton Candy Land”, “A World Of Our Own”, “One Broken Heart For Sale”, “I’m Falling In Love Tonight”, and of course “Happy Ending”. This movie of course has a happy ending.

Another great thing about It Happened At The World s Fair, for women at least, is that the actor playing Elvis is quite handsome and good looking, which is about all I read from all the comments about this movie from all the women movie viewers. I guess being seen as the Elvis in any way has a magical effect on people. This movie takes place at the Seattle’s World Fair in 1964 at the famous landmark Space Needle. These days I don’t hear much about world’s fairs but they were pretty big events back then since communication and technology was still manageable and slow changing (unlike today with conventions for EVERYTHING up the wazoo). Unlike most other Elvis Presley movies, this film is much more family oriented and doesn’t show a lot of women (a very big stark contrast to the other Elvis Presley movies made during the 1960’s), which I’m guessing is why this film still endures even to this day. I suppose the feel good, family message of the movie is something positive everyone can relate to, and no doubt it would probably be a good movie to show children (a comment I read stated that he saw the movie when he was just 12). If you don’t own a copy of It Happened At The World s Fair, I highly recommend seeing it because it is a timeless classic that will probably be popular in another 35 years – Long Live The King, Baby!

The We Are Marshall movie is a tribute to the Marshall University Plane Crash that occurred in November 1970. There are a number of well-known actors in the Marshall University Plane Crash Movie who play the coaching staff, players and family in the aftermath of this tragic incident. If you are wanting a moving story that has a good story line and quality acting, then the We Are Marshall movie is one to watch.

You will find though that this movie on the different happenings at Marshall University moves fairly quickly through the different characters lives and Matthew McConaughey, one of my favourite actors, performs a good roll as the new team coach (Jack Lengyel) for the Marshall University football team, helping to pull together the two remaining team players who didn’t go on the plane, and the rest of the university community – an interesting aspect that he is an out-of-towner. In any university, sport is at the centre of a lot of the social aspects and involvement by many students, so the shock for everyone of losing so many people, back in 1970, must have been something that had a deep impact on the students and faculty at Marshall University.

The good aspects of this movie are that it depicts the important parts of a lot of people’s lives, not to mention Matthew Fox’s character, who plays Jack in the series Lost, is the assistant coach Red Dawson. The movie follows Red and how he is coping with the death of a number of his colleagues and friends, and how he works with McConaughey to develop the team to become a fighting fit football team ready to defend Marshall University’s honour and beat any opposing teams.

There are a number of scenes, as there are with any movie, that could have been brightened up a little from the dreariness they are iumposing on the viewer, but, as is will all movies that are directed towards horrific accidents, the We Are Marshall movie is bound to have them. Just, it seems as though it would have been a better movie if there were more slightly commical/moving moments, such as the one when the Dean, played by the legendary David Strathairn, went to the football board to ensure the Marshall University football team were allowed into the league to play other. It brings home that the key aspect of the story was about people changing and moving on from some of the events that happen in our lives and cause so much disruption.

The We Are Marshall movie, which covers the aftermath of the Marshall University Plane Crash of 1970, isn’t going to be an action packed movie to watch on a Saturday night; but, if you want to watch a movie with some quality actors and acting in, then you should go and rent the movie from your local store. It isn’t a one you seen – you’ve seen them all – type of movie, as the writers and director have brought a sense of meaning to the University plane crash of November 1970 that took 75 people and left the town distraught. Entertaining and worth a look.

Jamie Afifi is expecting a child soon! This lucky and blessed person is soon to be a father. As you may know Jamie Afifi is married or going to be married to famous Scrubs star Sarah Chalke.

I didn’t do a search for Jamie Afifi married but I remember when I did a search for Tina Fey married on google that she had a daughter a few years back. What I’ve noticed from Tina Fey and many other celebrity stars is that the ones that have kids tend to have very few kids. This would make sense as being an actor or actress is a very high stress, very time consuming profession, but it is also one of the most satisfying and fulfilling jobs in the world. That’s probably because you’re actually doing something that is very visible, and very easy to trace the feedback of so many people, not to mention these are same people who bring you incredible movies that everybody has, whether it’s memorable characters like Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame, or Bruce Wayne, Alfred, the Joker, and Commissioner Gordon of Batman : The Dark Knight fame.

Can you imagine the man hours needed to perfect your roles? Can you imagine how much more time you have to spend if you had to do a new show or episode every week, like Jamie Afifi has to do with Scrubs? It’s a lot of work, and no doubt very fulfilling and satisfying because of all the fame, glory, and salary. But of course that is not what is on Jamie Afifi’s mind right now as he and his soon to be wife have to get ready for the new kid that’s going to change their lives forever.

Another issue about Jamie Afifi that I can recall is there is a lot of hate and jealously towards these super successful people. I often hear things like “well I had a kid and enjoy the joys of motherhood / fatherhood, how come this dumb @#E# gets on the front cover and not me?” Yes this is an actual quote from a regular mother from a popular tabloid on celebrities, who shall remain anonymous. The author of the article ultimately wrote in response that if she was so upset by this dumb @#$#@ then why does she still follow around these celebrities and curse and stalk them? Well I don’t know the answer to that but I can guess is well jealously does mad things to mad people.

In the end the joy of having kids is itself the act that is joyous, whether you are Jamie Afifi or not. Whether you get famous for it well, that’s just a bonus with a bowl of chocolate and vanilla ice cream royal split flavor on top. Besides, the reason why it’s covered is because the person is already famous, not because of the famous person, Jamie Afifi in this case, is having a kid. If Jamie Afifi supposedly was knee – high on marijuana, super duper stupid drunk, and like shot 50 people with a Browning M2 machine gun, that totally would be famous (or infamous really) and covered all over the place. Of course this did not actually happen to or with Jamie Afifi thank god but it was just an example.

This seems like a good movie, though I have to admit it may not be to the liking of many guys since this is technically a romance movie ( I think). I can’t imagine what it would be like to travel back and forth through time, especially if it was random like it is with the husband in this movie. Oddly enough though, he isn’t exactly the main character since the movie is entitled time travelers wife, and hence the review is really about her.

Some cynics may say most women wouldn’t be this loyal after having a husband that basically ditches her 24/7 and at random intervals, and maybe they are right. It is hard for anyone to stay loyal to a spouse that is gone for days, weeks, or even months, without ever knowing when they will come back. Still, these people do in fact endure and wait for their beloved it come home, which I guess is what this movie is about.

I remember reading on a Dick Masterson blog entry once about how he went on and on about how men are better than women (that’s what Dick Masterson is all about) and this one guy said something that I thought was pretty harsh which was that he felt that any cheating wife of a deployed soldier should be tried and executed for being traitorous, or something. Never mind that he never mentions giving out the same punishment out to the guy who she is cheating with.

And that brings me to the next point of this time travelers wife review, the double standard. It seems after all this time, after all the changes this world and humanity has gone through, that old ideas and so called principles still Die Hard, or Live Free. In the case of the double standard for women, well it probably still exists though luckily we won’t actually pass laws or worse, execute laws based on this double standard, well intentionally at least. Today if you’re caught cheating on your spouse well, there’s no actual illegality to it that I know of (at least in New York State) but you sure as hell will have one really pissed off spouse. They also make it so that if you kill your spouse that you just caught cheating, supposedly you get off easier because it’s considered a crime of passion is the technical term, of course I never understood that but people have many ways to justify death I suppose.

Now I don’t want to spoil the plot of time travelers wife in this review and of course I haven’t seen it yet but one thing is for certain, it is about the emotional struggles that a man and woman has to go through to maintain or destroy this so called double standard we all have in this society, the toll it has on people, and how a couple’s love can endure even the most severe of traumas (yes yes I know it’s corny but hey so is Star Trek with their time travel save humanity plots and that was pretty awesome)!

Bastard Out Of Carolina is a fairly old book or story, but it’s a pretty interesting one. With the rise of violence amongst children these days, parents are turning to more entertaining ways to help cope with their kids’ increased aggression, which is where the bastard out of Carolina comes into play. In fact, this novel was so popular that it was made into a movie with the same title, bastard out of Carolina.

But I wonder if people are properly learning the lessons taught from this book. I remember about 5 years ago, my two nephews were 1 and 2 years old respective, living in the same apartment as me until my sister and brother in law could take them back home for the weekend. I forgot to this day why they had to stay but I was basically raising two extremely out of control boys 5 days a week. It was the worse years of my life. I still remember the sleepless nights, diaper changing, the arguing, the kids breaking things, especially my things, and the generally screaming and running around leaving a path of destruction and messiness.

Now the bastard out of Carolina talks about an out of control kid (sort of) and how one deals with such kids. Do you spank them? Do you talk to them? Do you beat them? Do you yell at them? We have all seen the reports and studies about behavior in children if you do certain things as the parent and / or guardian. I definitely felt like a parent with no benefits at all of being a parent, it was definitely a nightmare. Maybe I was the bastard out of Carolina for being a bad uncle but of course at the time I did not care at all because I really did not want to raise kids, still do at this point in writing. It’s way too much responsibility and headache. Probably some day I will have kids but oh man, I hope I am prepared because it will be a real pain in the ass. I guess that is why Dorothy wrote bastard out of Carolina to help us parents and some-day would be parents to cope or see what it is like to raise unruly children, as young children often are.

I just can’t wait for my kids to grow (if I had kids) and then I would just give them toys or video games to play with. That way they’re out of my hair, or at least a third of the time they would be. Then all I would have to worry about is screaming at them when I catch them sneaking out of their rooms or trying to open the windows and leave the house despite being GROUNDED for a week, or disobeying my orders and then ignoring me completely anyway. Of course if I did a good job as a parent then my kids would resent me but thank me later. If I were a great parent then my kids would not resent me and then thank me later, thus I can avoid being the bastard out of Carolina.

Well, just got back from watching the midnight showing of District 9, and all I got is a meh. The movie District 9 wasnt a bad movie by any stretch, but I think I was expecting too much out of it. I’ve been having that problem lately with a lot of movies that I see, like the latest harry potter. That one as well didnt really do it for me. But District 9 definitely had its moments.

Now, to start off, I wont have any spoilers in this District 9 Movie review. I just want to give you a heads up at what you can expect from District 9. I thought the acting was quite good, and the characters were definitely believable. One thing I cant stand in a movie is the same thing that can ruin a movie: bad acting. Or just simply casting the wrong actors. District 9 did not fail in that regards. Good acting.

The plot… Well the plot for the district 9 movie wasnt bad either. I dont want to go into too much detail and ruin the movie, but it does kinda keep you guessing at what will happen next. Not super unpredictable though, and it doesnt really keep you on the edge of your seat. The plot in district 9 keeps you intrigued just enough for you to keep watching, and not walk out of the theater.

Now the part I liked best about the district 9 movie was the display of alien weaponry. There are some sweet guns that start getting used around the middle of the movie, and the power behind them is insane. Lets just say that there isnt a whole lot left of whatever gets fired at.

And the special effects for district 9 were spot on, in my opinion. The aliens looked real and whenever they displayed the alien technology, it was pretty cool as well. It does get pretty gruesome at times, which is probably the reasoning for the R rating for District 9. And they do drop the f bomb quite a bit as well, including the aliens. That part actually made me chuckle a bit.

Overall, I would have to say that District 9 is a good movie. But I gotta be honest and say that I didnt walk away awe struck. I guess I have to be fair to District 9 though, as I really havent been blown away by a movie in quite some time. If you’re looking to see a movie this weekend with a more serious tone, but still with some action, then I would recommend District 9. I hope you have enjoyed this District 9 movie review, and let me know what you think of District 9.

Will

Edgar Rice Burroughs is making a splash in Paris once again at an exhibition dedicated to his creation, Tarzan!

Although Edgar Rice Burroughs never actually set foot in Africa, he created a timeless piece of literature that is constantly rediscovered by generation after generation.

There were some 22 books, translated into 56 languages, written about Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. These books were very, very popular and sold in excess of 15 million copies. In addition, the Lord of the Apes generated at least 42 feature films and I am pretty sure there will be more films in the making eventually.

In several of the feature films, Tarzan was portayed by Johnny Weismuller who invented the distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell. Although there are many theories about the origins of the yell, Johnny Weismuller maintained that the yell was his own voice and his own invention based on a yell he used when playing as a child. When I was a child, I too developed a distinctive yell but it went more like “hey MA! WHAT’S FOR DINNER!”. Read the full story