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11.22.09 by Widge @ 4:19 am 
Written & Directed by: Richard Curtis My Advice: Matinee. It's 1966. And apparently you can't get rock on British radio. Well, not the normal radio stations. While the government has an apparent stranglehold on the "legit" airwaves, there's at least one station that's decided to take to the open seas. Radio Rock, headed up by Quentin (Nighy), sits off UK's shores on a large boat and broadcasts. They not only have an array of colorful and personable DJs, but they even imported one, The Count (Hoffman), from America. Trouble is, everybody seems to enjoy Radio Rock except for certain members of the government: Minister Dormandy (Branagh), for example, and his assistant Twatt (Davenport). They plan to shut down offshore radio by hook or by crook or both, if necessary. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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11.21.09 by Widge @ 6:14 am 
Written by: Dave Eggers & Spike Jonze, based on the book by Maurice Sendak My Advice: Don't miss it. Max (Records) is a young, imaginative energetic boy. He has a sister (Pepita Emmerichs) and a mother (Keener). His father is not present. His energy is sometimes constructive, like building a fort-igloo to store snowballs in (although the snowballs were going to be used to wage war, naturally). Or building a fort-rocketship to explore the heavens. But sometimes he puts on a wolf costume and basically goes apeshit. Or wolfshit. After one of his more violent tantrums, he runs away. Far away. To an island populated by Wild Things. And there, he is declared king. And as king, he will make everything better. And protect his subjects from loneliness. Honest. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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11.18.09 by Widge @ 4:53 am  Greg Giese played two roles in Gone With the Wind, the newborn infant versions of both Bonnie Blue and Beau Wilkes. He was all of eleven days old. I got to spend a few minutes with him in Marietta during the World's Largest Virginia Reel stunt for the 70th anniversary of Gone With the Wind. A heckuva nice guy and fun to chat with. Categorized as: Movies
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11.16.09 by Widge @ 4:00 am  Each Monday we like to start off your week with a bit of insanity--consider it a vaccination against the true madness that is your work week. Trust us: we wear white lab coats. Some of us even wear stuff under them, too. Today we ask the question: What happens when Germany's only super hero fights not only an evil Nazi scientist and Dracula, but Hitler's brain in a whacked out robotic body? We're not sure, but it's called Captain Berlin vs. Hitler. It's apparently a play that was then filmed and is available on DVD from Amazon.de. Here's the trailer: Categorized as: Movies
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11.07.09 by Widge @ 6:48 am 
Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick My Advice: Matinee So, you know, zombie apocalypse. Not just zombie apocalypse, though--fast zombie apocalypse. The world, as you might imagine, goes to hell in a handicart. Shuffling amongst the ashes is our protagonist, known only as "Columbus" (Eisenberg). At first glance, he seems like an unlikely survivor. Ken Foree's Peter or Tom Savini's Blades he's definitely not. But he does have a ever-growing series of rules (shades of Max Brooks) that he adheres to. Although sometimes he bends them, like when throws in with "Tallahassee" (Harrelson), a borderline sociopath with a temper and a serious world-shattering hankering for Twinkies. This is the story of how anybody manages to survive in what Columbus refers to as "Zombieland." In a world where Shaun of the Dead has already come and gone--or rather, come and lingered, since it's that damn good--at first glance, the idea of another zombie comedy might be greeted with apprehension. And well, this one was. But Shaun, the British entry into this small sub-sub-genre was a well-written blend of comedy and pathos that was also a love letter to George Romero, Zombieland is, in essence, Shaun's clumsy, goofy but fun-as-hell American cousin. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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