Life Moves Pretty Fast

If I were to take the time and figure out a list of my most very favorite movies of the 1980s, four John Hughes movies would be on said list. Four more would be on a further list of “not my faves but movies I really liked.”

Double Trouble

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — also known as the People What Give Out the Oscars — announced yesterday that effective next year, they’re expanding the number of Academy Award nominees for Best Picture from five to ten.

Link: The 10 Best Recut Movie Trailers

Via Cinematical:  Way back before this site went on its unfortunate hiatus, I linked to a trailer for a “movie” called Shining — which was simply bits of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining re-edited so that it looked like a sweet family comedy-drama rather than the nightmare-inducing-in-impressionable-eleven-year-olds horror flick it really is. [1] Somewhat unsurprisingly, that [...]

Continuing Up

Finishing up my inadvertent Week of Pixar-Related Stuff: For the second straight weekend, Up was the top movie at the box office in the United States Ummm, oops, scratch that…Up was the second-place movie at the box office in the U.S. this last weekend – its gross dropped only 35% from last weekend to this [...]

Ten2One: Ranking My Pixar Favorites

Welcome to the first installment of yet another new ongoing series I just now thought up: Ten2One, which is, in all honesty, just a fancy handle for a fairly standard Top 10 list. To kick things off, in honor of the opening of Pixar’s tenth animated feature, Up, I present to you my ordering, from [...]

Undecided Basterd

I have a quandary to work through and just under three months to do so. Well, truthfully, I have more time than that, but the jist is this: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds comes out on August 21, and I have to decide if I want to go see it or not. I’m a little surprised [...]

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Joe Ranft, 1960-2005

Pixar’s Joe Ranft, head of their phenomenal story department (as well as the voice for Heimlich, Wheezy and Jacques) was killed in an auto accident on Wednesday. That’s terribly sad news for the folks at Pixar, both professionally and personally (by all accounts he was an incredible (so to speak) person). And I feel some [...]

SPECIAL FEATURE: 7 Days of Serenity

Revisit our special 7 Days of Serenity feature from 2005, in which we tried to pump up the ‘verse for the big-screen return of Mal Reynolds and crew.

Link: Scalzi on Sith

Since I have no idea when I’m actually going to get to see Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, I’m directing you now to John Scalzi’s review. Not only is Scalzi’s review as well-written and entertaining as the rest of his posts on The Whatever, but he’s recently done loads of research about [...]

Quotas Dias (4/11/05)

It’s always A Good Thing when I find someone else making a statement that mirrors my own opinions about things, and its An Even Better Thing when they do it in such a way that allows me to just steal the quote from them and not have to do any real work myself. Today’s example [...]

Finally!

OK, I’ve finally posted the Official Moviegeekz 2004 Year In Review. Consider that post to be a “living document”–it’s going to get updated on a regular basis as I see more and more movies from last year. I don’t want to penalize (if you can call it a “penalty” to be left off my list) [...]