Reading Time: 5 minutes Sometimes when I look into the young faces of Batman fans eagerly talking about the final chapter of the Christopher Nolan Batman series, I feel both a sense of pride and anguish. These newly converted Batman lovers I speak of were either born in the late 1980s or some time in the 1990s. The Batman […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Another year has come and gone. Memberships at fitness gyms are on the rise and wedding dress shops are busy with the rush of newly engaged women. As people begin to adjust to writing ’12 instead of ’11 on lines labeled date, let us reflect on what the cinema gods have given us over this […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Of all the cinematic genres, horror is one of the least pretentious. Scary movies don’t seek out critical acclaim. They don’t aspire to inspire. Horror films know what they’re about – frightening the ever-loving pants off you. No more, no less. Yet slasher flicks, gorefests and other types of terror serve an important emotional […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Feb. 26, the 84th Annual Academy Awards took place in Hollywood, CA. In case you didn’t catch all three hours of the awards show (or you were smart and didn’t watch it), I am here to fill you in on everything you missed. First, as I mentioned in my previous Cannonized Cinema column […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I finished the last page of Stephen King’s novel “Thinner,” I started to think of how the story could translate into film. There would be technical aspects, such as getting an overweight actor to loose weight during the course of the movie to the point he’s emaciated but I figured it would be an […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Cannonized Cinema column welcomes guest writers John-Ross Bocye and Matthew Jonassaint. The Great Depression had “City Lights.” The 60s had “The Graduate.” The films of John Hughes dominated the Me Decade. Every era has its important movies – the ones that are defined by their cultural context, and in turn inform future generations about […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Want to know the quickest way to ruin a good movie? Make a sequel. Remember “Smokin’ Aces?” Of course you do. It was a great movie involving the Mafia, assassins and the F.B.I. with a twist at the end. “Remember Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball?” No, you do not because the writers/production company decided to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes -Cannonized Cinema- In case you missed it, Parts one and two. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Aug. 5 Science-Fiction, Not Yet Rated Before you go ape (pun very much intended) about how the last remake “Planet of the Apes” (2001) was just awful, I promise you, this movie looks legitimately awesome. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes -Cannonized Cinema- This is the second of a three-part series. The first discussed movies being released in June of 2011 and was released on June 6. . This part will discuss movies being released in July 2011 and will be published on June 20. The last will discuss movies being released in August 2011 and […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes -Cannonized Cinema- This is the first of a three-part series. The first will discuss movies being released in June of 2011. The second will discuss movies being released in July 2011 and will be published on June 20. The last will discuss movies being released in August 2011 and will be published on […]