Check out the Terminator Salvation first movie still featuring Christian Bale at:
A Terminator 4 Bale - An Unofficial Website
Friday, July 18, 2008
Movie Review: Sex and the City
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Genre: romance, comedy, drama
Plot: We all have our problems but each girl deserves her happy-ending.
Official website: http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/
Comments: It was the day before my vacation and I wanted to treat myself with something light that didn’t imply too much thinking or require much attention so I chose a typical chick flick. I must have seen half a dozen of episodes over the years, and while the show was sort of fun on occasions I didn’t have the patience or interest to follow it and watch more. The girls were funny and I got to look at great dresses, well, except for the wedding outfits, those were horrible, so during the first half an hour I thought that watching the movie instead of the entire show was a good idea, I got the full experience in two hours tops. Only that it was longer than that and once it started to drag it felt even longer, like a six season show longer. I was glad when it ended! But it did have the expected happy-end and, like I said, great dresses… enough is enough though, no sequels, please!
Rating: 6/10
Featuring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Genre: romance, comedy, drama
Plot: We all have our problems but each girl deserves her happy-ending.
Official website: http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/
Comments: It was the day before my vacation and I wanted to treat myself with something light that didn’t imply too much thinking or require much attention so I chose a typical chick flick. I must have seen half a dozen of episodes over the years, and while the show was sort of fun on occasions I didn’t have the patience or interest to follow it and watch more. The girls were funny and I got to look at great dresses, well, except for the wedding outfits, those were horrible, so during the first half an hour I thought that watching the movie instead of the entire show was a good idea, I got the full experience in two hours tops. Only that it was longer than that and once it started to drag it felt even longer, like a six season show longer. I was glad when it ended! But it did have the expected happy-end and, like I said, great dresses… enough is enough though, no sequels, please!
Rating: 6/10
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Terminator Salvation Teaser Trailer
Terminator Salvation teaser trailer made it online. You can check it out at:
A Terminator 4 Bale - An Unofficial Website
A Terminator 4 Bale - An Unofficial Website
Monday, July 14, 2008
Movie Review: Hancock
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman
Genre: action, sci fi, comedy
Plot: The life of a superhero in today’s society.
Official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hancock/
Comments: Not much philosophy there and the movie doesn’t raise up to the standards Will Smith used us with, but it is summer movie easy fun. Charlize Theron does a better job than she did in Aeon Flux, thank God! Jason Bateman is ok, but of course Will Smith steals the show.
Rating: 6/10
Featuring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman
Genre: action, sci fi, comedy
Plot: The life of a superhero in today’s society.
Official website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hancock/
Comments: Not much philosophy there and the movie doesn’t raise up to the standards Will Smith used us with, but it is summer movie easy fun. Charlize Theron does a better job than she did in Aeon Flux, thank God! Jason Bateman is ok, but of course Will Smith steals the show.
Rating: 6/10
Friday, July 11, 2008
Movie Review: Wall-E
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
Genre: animation, sci fi
Plot: What becomes of the human kind in a few hundred years… maybe…
Official website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/
Comments: It was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. Visually beautiful, funny in the right places, heartfelt and making you think about the ideas presented. Really really good, just a little too long and dragging in the segment on the spaceship but that part was fun too. I recommend it to everyone regardless the age.
Rating: 9/10
Featuring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
Genre: animation, sci fi
Plot: What becomes of the human kind in a few hundred years… maybe…
Official website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/
Comments: It was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. Visually beautiful, funny in the right places, heartfelt and making you think about the ideas presented. Really really good, just a little too long and dragging in the segment on the spaceship but that part was fun too. I recommend it to everyone regardless the age.
Rating: 9/10
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Movie Review: Wanted
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common
Genre: action, thriller
Plot: Little nobody becomes somebody… sort of…
Official website: http://www.wantedmovie.com/
Comments: If you want to see James McAvoy play a torn character watch Penelope, if you want to see Angelina Jolie look hot and kick ass watch Tomb Rider, if you want to see Morgan Freeman do a good part watch just about anything else. Don’t watch Wanted. The script is so poorly written, even aberrant at times, that I would have to grade it with a minus in front. Cool special effects, way too much unnecessary gore. And the ending sucks. For a movie whose message is supposed to be ‘take control of your life’ I won’t be surprised if we have another Natural Born Killers on our hands when some poor shmuck grabs a gun and start shooting everything around only to blame it later on this lame excuse of a movie.
Rating: 6/10
Featuring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common
Genre: action, thriller
Plot: Little nobody becomes somebody… sort of…
Official website: http://www.wantedmovie.com/
Comments: If you want to see James McAvoy play a torn character watch Penelope, if you want to see Angelina Jolie look hot and kick ass watch Tomb Rider, if you want to see Morgan Freeman do a good part watch just about anything else. Don’t watch Wanted. The script is so poorly written, even aberrant at times, that I would have to grade it with a minus in front. Cool special effects, way too much unnecessary gore. And the ending sucks. For a movie whose message is supposed to be ‘take control of your life’ I won’t be surprised if we have another Natural Born Killers on our hands when some poor shmuck grabs a gun and start shooting everything around only to blame it later on this lame excuse of a movie.
Rating: 6/10
Saturday, July 5, 2008
New Wolverine Photo
A new Wolverine photo from X-men Origins: Wolverine is featured in Empire Magazine.
Check it out at:
XMO: Wolverine - An Unofficial Website
Check it out at:
XMO: Wolverine - An Unofficial Website
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Short story - Freeze
A bit of good news today, on of my stories appeared in Nautilus, a sci fi and fantasy online magazine run by Nemira publishing house. There's no pay involved since it's an online magazine, I just get to choose a free book from them, but what is important to me it's the fact that I grew up reading sci fi novels from Nemira. I think I've got every book they published in the 90's. And on top of all my story came online right on my birthday so yey!
Here's the story, in Romanian:
http://www.nautilus.nemira.ro/povestiri/inghetul/
Next step, a novel!
Here's the story, in Romanian:
http://www.nautilus.nemira.ro/povestiri/inghetul/
Next step, a novel!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Movie Review: The Happening
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Genre: thriller, horror
Plot: Nature gives the humanity a warning?
Official website: http://www.thehappeningmovie.com/
Comments: Honestly I don’t think M. Night Shyamalan made a decent movie since the Sixth Sense. I don’t know why I had hoped this one was better. The story is highly unbelievable, with little logical explanation and too much gratis gore. The plot is so full of holes you wouldn’t catch a fish with it in a tub with no water at all. Totally disappointing.
Rating: 6/10
Featuring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Genre: thriller, horror
Plot: Nature gives the humanity a warning?
Official website: http://www.thehappeningmovie.com/
Comments: Honestly I don’t think M. Night Shyamalan made a decent movie since the Sixth Sense. I don’t know why I had hoped this one was better. The story is highly unbelievable, with little logical explanation and too much gratis gore. The plot is so full of holes you wouldn’t catch a fish with it in a tub with no water at all. Totally disappointing.
Rating: 6/10
Friday, June 20, 2008
Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda
*** MIGTH CONTAIN SPOILERS! ***
Featuring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu
Genre: animation, comedy
Plot: Oversized Panda saves village from fearsome enemy.
Official website: http://www.kungfupanda.com/
Comments: It was amusing and fun. Some of the scenes are very well done with acute attention put on details and since it involves animals I was less bothered by the CGI work. It was also one of the very few films in which I tended to like the villain better than the hero. Purrrrr… What worries me is what kind of message the movie sends to the obese kids who sit on the sofa stuffing themselves while watching kung fu/action movies on the TV and dreaming about the cool things they would like to do. Will it encourage them to go and do something about it or just sit there and wait for those things to come to them?
Rating: 8/10
Featuring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu
Genre: animation, comedy
Plot: Oversized Panda saves village from fearsome enemy.
Official website: http://www.kungfupanda.com/
Comments: It was amusing and fun. Some of the scenes are very well done with acute attention put on details and since it involves animals I was less bothered by the CGI work. It was also one of the very few films in which I tended to like the villain better than the hero. Purrrrr… What worries me is what kind of message the movie sends to the obese kids who sit on the sofa stuffing themselves while watching kung fu/action movies on the TV and dreaming about the cool things they would like to do. Will it encourage them to go and do something about it or just sit there and wait for those things to come to them?
Rating: 8/10
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