Throwback Thursday: New Year's Eve Edition

Well the 2010 is almost here, so I figure I send you out in style! I must say other than going out and spending tons of money on a party, you can chill in the house with some popcorn and a great movie! Instead of one film to showcase I am going to give you a few to check out that include one of our favorite holidays...New Year's Eve!!

Check it out:
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown


The Godfather, Part II


Entrapment


Trading Places

DVD Releases 12/29/2009

Here are your DVD releases for 12/29/2009:

Paranormal Activity (R)

9 (PG-13)

A Perfect Getaway (R)

Jennifer's Body (R)

MERRY CHRISTMAS from G-Breezy's Director's Cut!!!

Happy Holidays! Seasons Greetings! Merry Christmas!!

Wouldn't life be worth the living, Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!

Throwback Thursday: When Harry met Sally

When Harry Met Sally, is a 1989 romantic comedy starring Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years or so of chance encounters in New York City. The film raises the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"


The origins of the film came from director Rob Reiner's return to single life after a divorce. Ephron interviewed Reiner and it provided the basis for Harry. Sally was based on Ephron and some of her friends. Crystal came on board and made his own contributions to the screenplay, making Harry funnier. Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal.



Over the years, When Harry Met Sally... has become, "the quintessential contemporary feel-good relationship movie that somehow still rings true". (Baltimore Sun) The film has inspired countless romantic comedies, including Brown Sugar, A Lot Like Love, Hum Tum, and Definitely, Maybe. (Cinematical) This movie grows like a good wine. Like all good films coming from this genre, this film thrives most on its witty dialgue and cleverness in not "sentimnetalizing" it too much. It's such relaxed acting and filming that you do nothing but watch these people fall in love, and pretty soon you feel like you're involved as well.

New Flicks for Wednesday 12/23/2009 & Friday 12/25/2009

With this being the week of Christmas the theaters are going real HARD to make sure you come and see the new flicks. And there is a great line-up, so why shouldn't we not go and see a movie. Well you have no excuse because there a plenty to choose from:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) (In theaters 12/23/2009) Alvin, Simon and Theodore enter a battle of the bands contest to save a school's music program.

Sherlock Homes (PG-13) Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson embark on their latest challenge.

Leaves of Grass (NR) A professor returns home where his twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (PG-13) An immortal carnival master must collect five souls or else lose his daughter to the devil.

It's Complicated (R) A divorcee (Meryl Streep) is caught between her ex (Alec Baldwin) and an architect (Steve Martin) .

New Teaser Trailer Alerts!!

Just about every woman and some men (lol) have been waiting for the new Sex in the City 2 movie and they have to wait no longer. The new teaser trailer is out and it looks good! Check out the trailer below, set to hit theaters May 28th, 2010.


And next is the new remake of The Karate Kid trailer starring Tariji P. Henson, Jaden Smith, and Jackie Chan.


Looks like 2010 is off to a great start!

DVD Releases 12/22/2009

Here are your DVD releases for 12/22/2009:

District 9 (R)

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13)

All About Steve (PG-13)

Extract (R)

Breaking News!! Iron Man 2 Trailer

Ladies and Gentleman!! Well we have been hearing the rumors saw the clips, but now the OFFICIAL trailer is out for the new Iron Man 2 film!!! Check it out now!!

All I can say is WOW!! This is going to be OFF THE CHAIN!!! I am literally speechless!! What are your thoughts?!!

Hits theaters May 7th, 2010!!

Throwback Thursday: Teen Wolf

You know there are movies and then there are great movies that you will always remember, well today's Throwback Thursday flick is the latter. Teen Wolf is an American film starring Michael J. Fox as Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself transforming into a werewolf.

"He always wanted to be special...but he never expected this!"


This is one of those films that you could watch on a Saturday night and laugh like its the first time you are watching it. As a matter fact it came on tv just recently, and I was truly blown away by how many of my friends and family were watching it on tv as well!

Michael J. Fox represents the tragedy that has befallen all youth in high school: the lack of acceptance. When you really look at this movies it shows more than a comedy about someone's personal difference, its more of a telling commentary on high school and how cruel it can be. The soundtrack alone is like a holy grail item, and for some like myself its a personal classic. Nostalgia definitely has something to do with its appeal, also the fact that it's a much-underrated comedy full of inspiration, silliness, and likable characters. This movie is a must see for teens and adults alike. Anyone who likes seeing the good guys triumph and has a soft spot for regular joes getting the girl and achieving greatness will appreciate this.

"When your shooting for the moon and finally make it. I guess a lucky star is shining on you. The candle on the cake is yours so take it, make another wish it's sure to come true. Isn't that the way you do it? Maybe I could do it to..."-Amy Holland, Shooting For The Moon, Teen Wolf main theme song, 1985.

In the, Teen Wolf was a huge hit for Atlantic Releasing Corporation, and immediately became a classic of pop culture history. Today, the film is regarded by most critics as a cult classic and a source of camp humour.

Here are some classic clips for you to enjoy and laugh about...

New Flicks for Friday 12/18/2009

It's that time again, Friday's feature flicks! This should be another groundbreaking weekend! Check it out:

Avatar (NR) Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture.

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (PG-13) Federal agents whisk two Manhattan murder witnesses (Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker) to Wyoming.

Nine (PG-13) A film director (Daniel Day-Lewis) juggles relationships with the numerous women in his life.

The Young Victoria (PG) Teenage Victoria (Emily Blunt) meets the love of her life and becomes England's queen.

Crazy Heart (R) (In theaters 12/16/09) With his career in decline, an aging country star (Jeff Bridges) finds unexpected inspiration.

Weekly Trailer Updates 12/16/2009

Here are your new trailer updates for the week. Enjoy!

District 13: Ultimatum

In theaters February 5, 2010

Avatar

In theaters Friday December 18th, 2009

2010 Golden Globe Nominations TODAY!!

Today was the day for the Golden Globe nominations to be displayed, and it looks like there will be alot of "dream come true" moments.

The Golden Globe nominations were announced today (12/15/09) at 5:00 am at The Beverly Hilton. The award ceremony will be seen in more than 160 countries, and is unique in that nominations span both television and motion picture film categories.
And here are the nominees:

*Best Motion Picture
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

*Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture--Drama
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sadibe, Precious

*Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

*Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

*Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
Julia Roberts, Duplicity

*Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Matt Damon, The Informant
Daniel Day Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

*Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo-Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine

*Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, Invictus
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christopher Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

*Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up

*Best Foreign Language Film
Barria
Broken Embraces
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
The Maid

*Best Director -- Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

*Best Screenplay -- Motion Picture
Up in the Air,
It's Complicated,
District 9,
The Hurt Locker,
Inglorious Basterds

*Best Original Score -- Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino, Up
Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant
James Horner, Avatar
Abel Krozeniowski, A Single Man
Karen O. and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are

*Best Original Song -- Motion Picture
"I Will See You," Avatar
"The Weary Kind," The Crazy Heart
"Winter," Brothers
"Cinema Italiano," Nine
"I Want to Come Home," Everybody's Fine

Dick Clark productions will produce the event, which will air on NBC on January 17th, 2010 at 8 pm EST, 5 pm PST.

New Additions to the AFI top-10 List!!

According to the Associated Press on today in Los Angeles, the dramas Precious and The Hurt Locker, the comedies Up in the Air and The Hangover and the animated tales Up and Coraline are among the top-10 movies of the year chosen by the American Film Institute.

Also on the AFI's list are the dramas The Messenger, A Serious Man, A Single Man and Sugar.

Unlike other film honors, the institute does not rank films or pick one as the year's best. The filmmakers behind the top-10 choices will be honored at a luncheon Jan. 15.

That's a good look for all of those films!! Congrats to them all!

DVD Releases 12/15/2009

Now this is going to be a great week for DVD releases, all of these were definite blockbusters when they hit the theaters:

The Hangover (R)

G-Force (PG)

Inglourious Basterds (R)

Taking Woodstock (R)

New Flicks for Friday 12/11/2009

Friday's Features

Invictus (PG-13) (Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge)
Nelson Mandela tries to unite his countrymen following the fall of apartheid in South Africa.

The Lovely Bones (PG-13) (Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon)

A deceased girl watches over her family from heaven as they struggle to find out her murderer.

The Princess and the Frog (G) (Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, David Keith)
A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans' French Quarter during the Jazz Age.

A Single Man (NR) (Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode)

A gay professor (Colin Firth) plans to commit suicide in the wake of his lover's death.

All Good Things (NR) (Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella)

The lover of a New York real estate scion suddenly goes missing.

YAHOO! Purple Filmstrip Award October/November Winners

Here are your October and November winners for the Yahoo! Movies Purple Filmstrip Award

October's Winner
Michael Jackson's This Is It



November's Winner
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Weekly Trailer Updates 12/9/2009

Here are your trailer updates for the week:

The much anticipated new Disney film...The Princess and the Frog

In theaters December 11th, 2009

It's Complicated

In theaters December 25th, 2009

Wonderful World

Hits theaters January 8th, 2010

The Strip


Crazy on the Outside

In theaters January 8th, 2010

Sherlock Holmes

Hits theaters Christmas Day 2009

To Save a Life

In theaters January 22nd, 2010

Saint John of Las Vegas

Breaking News:TRAILER Update!!

Imagine this.... "A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies."

This movie is a remake of a 2007 movie of the same name, Death at a Funeral (2007). Although Hollywood has a history of making American versions of foreign films, the original versions are usually in a language other than English. This is not the case here, however, since the original film was a British production and filmed in English, with an American director (who was, as it happens, born in England) and several American actors (including Peter Dinklage, who repeats his role in the remake). This is a very unusual case of a remake being made very quickly of an English-language movie that had a theatrical release in the US (albeit not a very successful one) (IMDB)

Check out the trailer:


It stars Chris Rock (who also co-wrote it), Tracy Morgan, Martin Lawrence, Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, James Marsden, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Luke Wilson, and Kevin Hart.

Set to hit theaters April 16th, 2010.

DVD Releases 12/8/2009

Here are Tuesday's DVD Releases

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG)

Julie & Julia (PG-13)

Public Enemies (R)

War Machine Revealed in 'Iron Man 2' Poster

In the end of the Summer 2008 blockbuster film Iron Man, James "Rhodey" Rhodes (played by Terrence Howard) looked at the early silver version of Tony Stark's high-tech armor and said to himself, "Next time, baby."

According to Yahoo "Movie Talk" that "next time" is coming on May 7, when Iron Man 2 hits theaters. And Rhodey will get his wish, donning the heavily-armored metallic suit that turns him into War Machine, a character that has been a part of the "Iron Man" comic books for 30 years. But getting superpowers isn't the only change for the character. In a much-publicized contract dispute, Terrence Howard was dropped from the sequel and replaced by actor Don Cheadle. While the exact details of why Marvel Studios made the switch, Entertainment Weekly reported that Howard's original contract made him the highest-paid actor in the first film, and when the producers tried to scale back his paycheck for the sequel, Howard's representatives balked. Cheadle told IGN that he was approached for the role after Howard had already left the project, and he only had a few hours to decide if he wanted to step in.

The decisions one must make in a matter of seconds.

As of now, no official footage of War Machine has been released, but the first image of the suit debuted Monday here on Yahoo! Movies. In this teaser poster, the War Machine suit stands behind the updated Mark IV Iron Man armor.

The question is then raised, "are Stark and Rhodes standing together, back-to-back, in solidarity against a common enemy, or are they in opposition to each other". In the comic books, conflict between the two escalated into a feud, but later they were able to work together as friends. To find out if the two are comrades or combatants, we'll have to wait for Iron Man 2 to arrive in theaters on May 7.

Throwback Thursday "The Muppet Christmas Carol"

Today's feature is one to get you ready for the holidays in in a fun kind of way. How many of you remember "The Muppets", well today's 'Throwback Thursday' is that of The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Michael Caine is miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and Kermit the Frog is kindly Bob Cratchit in the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational take on the Dickens tale ever to star 99 percent Muppets.


This film was directed by Jim Henson's son, Brian. Taking over the puppeteering role of Kermit, originally performed by Jim Henson before his death in 1990, was Steve Whitmire. It was shot in Shepperton Studios, England and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Despite the use of Muppets throughout filming and a humorous spin on much of the story, this film is a fairly close adaptation of the original story. The film is even interspersed with scenes of a narrator (Gonzo playing Dickens), who, along with the characters, recites many of Dickens's original lines. One notable difference from the original story is the addition of Jacob Marley's brother, Robert, who was not present in Dickens' story. It is suggested this name was chosen as an oblique reference to musician Bob Marley. Another alteration involved changing the name of the character Fezziwig to Fozziwig, as Fozzie Bear played the role.*

This is the first Muppet movie in which the story revolves around characters played by human beings, specifically, Ebenezer Scrooge played by Michael Caine. The rest of the cast consisted of mostly Muppet performers. Several pivotal roles — in particular, the three Christmas Spirits — were portrayed by specially-created Muppet characters. It was at one time considered that well-known Muppets would be cast in these roles (Miss Piggy, Scooter, and Gonzo, specifically) before it was decided that it would detract from the ominous effect the spirits would need to convey. Only the Ghost of Christmas Present is clearly a muppet (albeit a giant one), while the Ghost of Christmas past is an etherial childlike spirit and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is a cloaked and terrifying figure as per tradition.* The film would also be dedicated to the memory of Jim Henson and Richard Hunt, two original Muppet performers, who died before the film's release.

This is an excellent re-telling of Dickens' classic, with the added twist of Muppet humor and charm. The Muppet characters fit Dickens' characters so well that it would be easy to think he had them in mind while writing. The music adds a magic to the movie that brings out all the emotion that Dickens wrote into the original novel. The story is so good that it would be real difficult to make a bad movie out of it. And the even greater thing about this film is that it is fitting for all ages not just children.





*Wikipedia

New Flicks for Friday 12/4/2009

Armored (PG-13)

Armored-car officers risk their lives after planning a heist on their own company.

Brothers (R)

A man care's for his brother's family while away in the military.

Up in the Air (R)

A corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

Everybody's Fine (PG-13)

A widower goes on a road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children.

Translymania (R)

College students arrive for class at a centuries-old, vampire-infested castle.

Serious Moonlight (R)

A troubled couple finds themselves in a dilemma when a robber attempts to steal from them.

The Breaking Point (NR)

A man has to overcome a deep conspiracy and his troubled past to gain redemption.

Weekly Trailer Update 12/2/2009

Here's your weekly dose of Trailer Updates:

The Lovely Bones

In theaters December 11th, 2009

The Last Station

Hits Theater January 15th 2010

Daybreakers

In theaters January 8th, 2010

Brothers

Hits theaters December 4th, 2009

The Wolfman

In theaters February 11th, 2010

Letters to Juliet

Hits theaters May 14th, 2010

Police, Adjective

In theaters December 23rd, 2009

New DVD Releases 12/1/2009

Here are your Tuesday DVD releases...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG)

Terminator Salvation (PG-13)

World AIDS Day 2009

World AIDS Day, each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day.

AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007, and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 2 million lives in 2007, of which about 270,000 were children.*

World AIDS Day is an opportunity for us to work together to help reduce stigma around HIV and promote HIV Testing. This year’s theme is "leadership"– from all sectors, including government but also leaders among individuals and families, communities, non-profits and other organizations.

*Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)