I saw the Dark Knight Rises at the premiere showing 12am Friday morning. Was I excited? nope. Was I peeing in my pants and hyperventilating? HELLS YES. It was by far one of the best summer movie anticipations of the year and I was not disappointed, quite the contrary, my mind was inception-ed and I loved it! Christopher Nolan has become the A-lister director of Hollywood, and on IMDB all of his movies have made it in the top 250 movies of ALL TIME! I don't know what to expect from this man, but it'll always be a great surprise.
Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis are officially kicking off their Campaign around America! Which is quite literal and a hilarious way to market their movie called "The Campaign". The two actors are making 11 stops around America, (which includes Toronto on July 30!) taking questions from fans and the press about their movie and in the process, giving a few giggles and laughs, I mean politicians gotta know how to talk and woo right? Well these two are surely woo-ing and LOL-ing their way to the fans and getting a lot of attention for it!
Image taken from Channel 9 News, NBC
It's a very unusual way for them to promote a movie and I think that it fits the theme of the movie perfectly. I'm sure that it's fun for the actors to stand on podiums and giving off hints of their character's persona and how the movie is going to play out. Zack Galifianakis (WOW, try saying that just once! I have trouble spelling it out, let along attempt to say it) has become part of the next generation of Hollywood comedians and he's hilarious in the trailer.
Two trailers that are packed with Hollywood A-listers and exciting talent! Crime and Fantasy, I look forward to both movies!
OZ the Great and Powerful
Are you the great man that we've been waiting for?
Certainly this movie is going to be visually stunning and a big one at that, but I'm most excited for the chemistry and collaborations of the whole cast and director Sam Raimi. This movie stars James Franco,Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz. Franco plays Oscar Diggs ( aka Wizard of OZ) who lacks luster in his life in Kansas and desires more than being a one-time circus magician. The other three wonderful and beautiful actresses that I've mentioned above will be playing the witches Theodora, Glinda and Evanora, respectively. I just hope that the visuals won't be the only high point of this movie, because as we've seen in 2010's Alice in Wonderland and this year's Snow White and the Huntsman, the scenery was perfect and magical, but the story was entirely made of cheap tricks and illusions. However, I have much hope in the cast, and luckily, they'll transport us far far away from any Kansas boredom! In Theaters March 8, 2013.
Here is the official synopsis:
Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,”
directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved
character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time
circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the
vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for
the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora
(Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the
great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic
problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is
good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use
through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself
not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as
well.
Gangster Squad
Ba-BANG!
Usually, I'm not a big fan of gangster movies, unless the movie has Al Pacino (pre-2000s!) but this movie has Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, so I'll make an exception! Sorry, but I truly am stupid, crazy in love with these two (total pun intended!) and the trailer really delivered a bunch of right shots packed with drama, action and suspense! This movie also stars more notable actors, Sean Penn (who had a great prosthetic nose job done for the movie!) Josh Brolin and Nick Nolte. In theaters September 7, 2012.
Here is the official synopsis:
Los
Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs
the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns,
the prostitutes and–if he has his way–every wire bet placed west of Chicago.
And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also
the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to
intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the
small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and
Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world
apart. “Gangster Squad” is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the
LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous
mafia bosses of all time.
Isn't a movie more appealing when the actor is an actual-real-live-super-fan of the character they're playing and kicking-ass AT playing that character?
Answer is YES!
I recently just watched the reboot of the Spider-man franchise, "The Amazing Spider-Man" starring the amazing Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone and it was AMAZING!
"Cute"
Image from Society6.com
To be honest, I had my doubts about this film because most people were calling it the "middle child" of summer blockbuster movies! You had the release of the Avengers movie in May, the suspension for Scott Ridley's Prometheus and Twi-hards everywhere were anticipating the darker "Snow White and the Huntsmen" in June, and a HUGE crowd waiting forever for the last installment of the "Dark Knight Rises" coming around next week. Poor Spidey was stuck in the middle and there wasn't much hype or "must-see" super fans as there were and are for the other aforementioned movies.
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Stars Wars is nerdy. . . WRONG! it's awesome! I recently visited the Stars Wars Identity Exhibition at the Montreal Science Center in Montreal, Quebec and it was one of the BEST exhibitions I've been to in a science center, ever!
For fans of the popular franchise, Lucasfilm limited joined forces with Montreal's X3 Productions to open this ambitious exhibition that allows you to create your own "hero" within the Star Wars realm. At the beginning of the exhibition, I was given a chip-encoded rubber bracelet used to chart my own
personal identity at 10 stations in the exhibition. Each station was a discovery of some technological, psychological, and science-y aspect of the world and cultures around you and it's comparisons with the characters and world of Luke and Anakin Skywalker.
Star Wars Identities is at the Montreal Science Centre in the Quays of the Old Port until Sept. 16. Admission: $23 for adults, $13.50 for children aged 4 to 12, and $63 for a family (two adults, two children).
As you all know (maybe not. . .) the San Diego Comic Con is coming soon and when I was going through the schedules of panels (sadly I'm not super crazy nerd fan enough to go, or afford to go) I remembered a panel that I was excited for last year, and that was for Drive the movie! Crazy train of thought, I know.
Drive stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks and opened last year in September. I thought Ryan Gosling should have been nominated for an Oscar for his role as "Driver", actually most the cast should have been nominated! Albert Brooks plays the best anti-villain ever! I highly recommend that you watch this movie because the cast is terrific and you'll just be rooting for this one unconventional hero all the way! I remember checking out their very pink and awesome posters for the movie and I came across some other prints that were just stunning!
I'd have to say that prints play a really big part in introducing the audience to the theme and emotions of a film. You can expect a lot from a piece of movie poster and it's a great little teaser for fans, especially a teaser to the teaser trailer, which is a teaser for the actual trailer, which is the teaser for the film...sorry... I'm on this thought wagon that's just circling.
If you haven't seen the Drive posters yet, here you go! There are two limited edition posters of the movie with the full cast, you can find them at this website: Society6. They have a wide collection of art and they have some pretty good Movies&TVs, and Sci-Fi prints.
I also added some songs from their soundtrack, which is one of my FAVOURITE movie soundtracks of all time! I hope you enjoy the songs as well!
