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I am an avid fire watcher, poet and comedian. Also critic, lowly benefit MC, and soap user.

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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Toy Story 3 (2010): 1 of 12

Like many film folks, in the days before a long awaited sequel in a beloved franchise appears I like to revisit the earlier movies - especially if I haven't seen them in a long time. It's to remind me of the flavor of said films, yet it can also feel like doing homework sometimes. Re-watching the first TOY STORY (1995) and i...
Entertainment > Movie Remakes & Adaptations Movie remakes: Comparing the original The Pink Panther with the 2006 remake: 1 of 6

With the release of THE PINK PANTHER 2, there will have been 5 Pink Panther films since the great Peter Sellers died in 1980. One was made from Sellers outtakes, 2 of them were failed reboot attempts with actors Ted Wass (as an actual original character named Clifton Sleigh) and Roberto Benigni (as Clouseau's son), and then ...
Entertainment > Movie News & Previews 2007 Upcoming blockbusters: Movies to look forward to: 1 of 6

Hey kids - here's the top 5 movies to look forward to (and get our hopes too WAY up for) in 2007 : 1. THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (Dir. David Silverman) Yep, I know there are a lot of cynics out there ragging on the alleged declining quality of the show and forecasting the worst for this long awaited project but I'm a hardcore fan of...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: American Gangster: 3 of 16

In this fictionalized account of real events Denzel Washington potrays Frank Lucas, a real life Harlem heroin kingpin in the late 60's to mid 70's who was originally from my home-state (he was born in Washington, North Carolina and there are scenes set in Greensboro). Lucas rules the streets by smuggling drugs from Vietnam i...
Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry Alternate movie endings: Why sometimes it's not 'The End': 2 of 9

HE END...OR WAS IT? Anyone with a casual interest in film knows that sometimes a movie has more than one ending shot. Sometimes as an afterthought but most of the time after initial test screenings were greeted with negative reactions. Fatal Attraction is a classic example. In the original version Michael Douglas's adultery ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The X-Files: I Want To Believe: 2 of 9

X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE ":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701(Dir. Chris Carter, 2008) "I'm done chasing monsters in the dark" says former agent now full time Doctor Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and apparently so is X-Files creator/writer/director Chris Carter because this is strangley stripped of the supernatural eleme...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Synecdoche, New York: 1 of 4

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut is unlike any other first time director's film, but then it's unlike any other film in existence, period. The noted screenwriter of such modern day masterpieces as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION, and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND now is presenting us with an epic construction in ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: I Am Legend: 14 of 55

I AM LEGEND (Dir. Francis Lawrence, 2007)I was planning on skipping this flick but some friends thought it would be good mindless fun one recent eve. They were right - this Will Smith fighting zombies spectacle (big enough to warrant an IMAX release) isn't too dumb for fun. Mind you, it considers itself to be too highbrow to...
Entertainment > Movie Awards & Nominations Oscar predictions: 2008: 3 of 9

The Academy Awards is one week away so I am finalizing my predictions. I admit that I'm no expert - I only had 13 out of 24 right last year but it is such a fun process for a film fan so I'm game. In Roger Ebert's 2008 predictions column he writes "as usual I will allow my heart to outsmart my brain in one or two races, whic...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: 2 of 6

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Dir. Andrew Dominik, 2007) Despite some good word of mouth in its theatrical release last fall this got majorly overlooked even in the nonsensical "is the Western still alive?" debate that some critics indulged in. At the years end it made a number of top ten lists ...