Anyone who knows just about anything about me knows that I am and always have been a Star Wars FREAK. My earliest childhood memory is of my mom taking me to see the first Star Wars for the very first time. I was too young to have vivid memories, but … [Read More]
The attention and interest generated by the article I put up the other day on Why Commercials Before Movies Is Worse Than Piracy continues to generate a lot of discussion (and so the topic should). One of the recurring emails I’ve been getting from a lot of people is the … [Read More]
Last night was the MTV Music Video Awards, and though it has very little if anything to do at all with movies, a small snippet managed to (strategically) slip out of Shia LaBeouf while he was on stage with millions of viewers conveniently hanging on his every word. The title … [Read More]
For those of you who have been reading The Movie Blog for at least 2 years or more, you may remember that at one point I signed a small book deal with an even smaller publisher to write a book that I was calling “The Silver Screen From Where I’m … [Read More]
It’s no secret that I practically worship the ground George Lucas walks on. Probably the greatest moment of my life was when I finally got to visit Skywalker ranch… it was my pilgrimage to Mecca. But man oh man… even I have to admit that old George boy has said … [Read More]
Title=Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Score=7
Summary=I really enjoyed watching Revenge of the Sith. It is a strong film with a strong story, great effects and much improved dialog (with the exception of anything with Padmé in it). Star Wars fans should be quite happy… and non-Star Wars fans will enjoy as well.
Something of a tradition has begun over the last 2 Star Wars films. The tradition of lining up. And no, I’m not talking about lining up for the movie… I’m talking about lining up for the toys. I remember the huge 2 day long line up in front of the … [Read More]
I am now looking forward to Revenge of the Sith now that the latest trailers are out and all the news says it’s going to be dark and violent. Fantastic. However the news that there are going to be different versions before it even reaches DVD is concerning me. From … [Read More]
A couple of years ago, just about a month prior to the release of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, I was down in Indianapolis for the big Star Wars convention known as Celebrations 2 which is actually run by LucasFilm (Celebrations 3 will be in April). Anyway, I was … [Read More]
Watching television this weekend, in a particularly lazy weekend, I came across Channel 4’s top 100 movies. Now they’ve done a lot of these before, but this one was actually from the British Film Industry‘s Box Office figures for the UK. Now that sounded interesting. So I gave up six … [Read More]
If you’re like me, in the 90’s you got real sick and tired of hearing the name Leonardo DiCaprio jumping forth from every teenage girls lips every 10 seconds. Just reading his name completely turned me off… not to mention I HATED Titanic, so that didn’t help either. Having said … [Read More]
Well, I guess deep down we all knew this was going to happen. It appears a documentary on Lord of the Rings fans is coming our way entitled Ringers: Lord of the Fans. I fear it will follow in the exact same footsteps as other “fan-centric” documentaries that focus on … [Read More]