What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW)
What are the most appealing qualities of the biggest and best movie stars? And who is your ultimate movie star?
Tom Cruise
spoiling movies in a responsible way will be a new thing here…
…when I get up and running on WordPress (which will be very soon), when I can protect such posts from accidental viewing. In the meantime, please enjoy this post from Film School Rejects about Oblivion…
Cinema du Sanity: pop culture for reasonable people
Let me know what you think. If enough people like it, maybe I’ll do this as a weekly thing…
Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?
Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
After Earth (trailer)
Listen for that faux solemn Charlton Heston-esque voice in your head saying, “And the planet was known as Earth.”
Oblivion (trailer)
Ooo ooo ooo! I know, I know! Tom Cruise is in the Matrix! No, wait, his dreams are being incepted! No, wait, wait: he’s in a video game!
question of the day: Should movies have a salary cap like some sports do?
Capping overall FX and marketing budgets might make a difference, but it’s hard to imagine the studios agreeing to that… and even if they did, who would enforce it?
Scientology auditions for Mrs. Tom Cruise (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Jack Reacher (trailer)
A cop who doesn’t care about the law? This is an entirely new thing for The Movies to be exploring. Tell me more!
