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Report: Christopher Nolan announces his next Batman-less directed project, “Interstellar”, to hit theaters, Nov. 7th, 2014…

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You see, Christopher Nolan, is a film director and storyteller. He can’t direct superhero movies for the rest of his life, ya know? He needs to move on to other things and tell other stories. Give him a chance with his other work, and you would see that the man is a phenomenal storyteller and film maker. Christopher Nolan, announced, that he will direct a film called, “Interstellar” next, which looks to be a sci fi film. The film will be hitting theaters and Imax, Nov.7th, 2014.

No plot yet, but you probably won’t hear of the plot for a long while ’cause as you all know, Christopher Nolan, is obsessed with secrecy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Nolan tries to get Christian Bale or Leo Dicaprio to star in the leading role for, “Interstellar”, though. Sounds like it’s going to be an epic sci-fi/action adventure, so expect another big CGI and special effects movie from Nolan.

More on the story, here.

Kev

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Film of the Day: Raiders of the Lost Ark

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This will always be my favorite Spielberg movie, and this will always be the best Indy film. “Raiders of The Lost Ark” is such a classic and it’s another film, I can watch over and over. I like all 4 Indy movies (yes, even “Crystal Skull”), but this one “Raiders”, will always stand out. It’s not only a great adventure story with good plot and good acting, it’s also a great action movie. I know Steven Spielberg is not the best at making action movies, but he did the best job with the action sequences in “Raiders”. Every action scene in this movie was pretty intense,  and they can get so exciting that you want even more from, Indy.

Belloq is one of those villains that you want to hate and the actor who played him does a phenomenal job. There are so many emotions with, “Raiders”. It can get exciting, fun, scary, and there are some sad scenes as well. Yes, there a few scary scenes in “Raiders”, that almost felt like a horror film, especially the controversial Ark Ceremony toward the end of the movie. While I do like all 4 Indy films, I do admit that the Indy franchise kind of went downhill after this. They will never make an amazing Indy film like this ever again. I do think, “Temple of Doom” is almost just as good as “Raiders”.

Kev

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Film Of the Day: “The Last of the Mohicans”…

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Okay, time to get rolling with these, “Film of the Day”, things. I’ll try to do these daily the best I can. “The Last of the Mohicans”, is one film that means a lot to me. I love this film so much. I remember seeing it in theater when it first came out, and this is one film I’ll never get tired of watching ever. While Daniel Day-Lewis had a lot of great roles in his career, his role as Hawkeye tops them all. This is a beautiful film, directed by Michael Mann. I did read the book but to be honest, I love the movie way more. The movie is what the book should have been, they’re both totally different, of course. Everything about the movie is so perfect. The acting, cinematography, the musical score, the action scenes, etc. Just a beautiful film all around, and I always get goosebumps watching it.

The film is set during the French and Indian Wars, tells the story about three Indian trappers, who must protect the British Colonel’s daughters.

This film gets me every time I see it. If you haven’t seen this film, then you must.

Kev

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Report: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher finally in negotiations for “Star Wars 7” but what about Lando???

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All three of them has reportedly said, they were willing to return to their roles for the next, “Star Wars” film, but none of them have signed contracts yet. Look like they are finally getting close to a deal ’cause anonymous sources say, the three cast members are in negotiations to reprise their roles.

While it’s exciting news that Han, Leia, and Luke are returning but what about Lando? So far, Billy Dee Williams have been silent about the new Star Wars. We haven’t heard anything from him. So far, Disney/Lucasfilm haven’t even asked, Billy Dee. So I’m hoping, Lando, will come back being played by the same actor. If they don’t get Lando at all, I expect the Star Wars geeks to start online petitions. I hope they don’t ignore Lando, ’cause he was a cool character.

I know a lot of people are skeptical of JJ doing Star Wars, but I think he’ll do it justice. I hope the new movies will still have the same vibe of the original trilogy, but of course, it will also have a current feel with today’s technology.

I’m actually looking forward to seeing how they’re gonna pull this off. It’s pretty intriguing to me.

Read the news, here.

Kev

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Report: Carrie Fisher says she’s game for Star Wars return, but no confirmation from Lucasfilm yet…

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Carrie Fisher, had an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated, and of course, they couldn’t resist asking if she would reprise her role as Princess Leia for, “Star Wars 7”. She replied back with a simple, “Yes”. That was it. So Entertainment Weekly, contacted Lucasfilm themselves, and the folks at Lucasfilm said that they haven’t even started casting yet. I expect the casting to start pretty soon, though.

I don’t know how they are going to pull off Princess Leia in the new, Star Wars. Carrie Fisher used to be beautiful and gorgeous in her younger years, but now look at her. Carrie looks way different today. I’m sure she still has what it takes to play Princess Leia just fine, but she may look a little bit different. Of course, it wouldn’t surprise me that Lucasfilm will try to make Carrie look younger and beautiful with the power of make up effects, and computerized air brushing. They can easily make her the beautiful Princess still, but she will be a little older.

Will Leia be married to Han Solo and they have a few kids together? Luke will mentor those kids and train them to be Jedi’s? I’m sure that’s the plot they’re going for, but I hope they’ll have  more of a story than that, honestly, I think mentors training the younger generations in fictional movies is getting old. They already have the same idea with, Ghostbusters 3.

See the story at, Entertainment Weekly.

Kev

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BREAKING NEWS: Sam Mendes says no to directing Bond 24…

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Despite all the positive reviews of “Skyfall” and the huge box office numbers, Sam Mendes says no to directing Bond 24, due to other commitments. He is scheduled to direct, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, and “King Lear” films, and his focus on those two movies. Shame, I was hoping he would give Bond another shot, ’cause “Skyfall”, was a pretty amazing flick and it is indeed, the best Bond film ever made, in my opinion.

I almost bought “Skyfall” on BluRay yesterday, but ended up getting the new “Tomb Raider” game instead.

I don’t think other directors will make a good Bond film after this one, though. They will go downhill again.

See the director’s statement, here.

Kev

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Film of the Day: “Schindler’s List”

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In celebration of the “25th Anniversary” of “Schindler’s List” Blu Ray coming out in stores tomorrow (which I’m thinking about buying, probably will), I thought it would be cool to start of “Film of the Day” with this movie. This tells the story of a man named Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of many Polish-Jewish people from getting employed to factories, during the Holocaust in World War II.

The film stars Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. I think this is Spielberg’s best historical drama. I remember seeing this film in theater a couple of times when it was first released. It’s a powerful and moving film all the way through. I think this is an important film that everyone needs to see. While Spielberg’s “Lincoln” movie, was real good, it’s “Schindler’s List” is what it’s all about here. I still have the DVD for this film, and might replace it with the BluRay this week. “Schindler’s List” is one of my favorite films of all time. Even though it’s a historical drama, this is one movie I can watch over and over again.

Kev

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How I would become a professional movie critic and get paid for it…

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So if I ever decided to do it. How would I become a professional movie critic and make a living off of it? How would I become the next Roger Ebert? Well, for starters, I would need to get a degree in journalism and I need to study English and Grammar. I would like to go back to school and do that sometime, but I can’t right at this moment. I could however, try to write movie reviews for a local paper, that would be a pretty good start? Maybe for the Times Union or something?

Anyway, if nothing happens, at all, I’ll just continue to do what I do here on my site, talk about movies and review them. I still seem to be doing a good job talking about movies online, even though when I don’t get paid for it. I get a lot of positive feedback, people telling me that they love my movie discussions and reviews. People don’t just give me positive feedback on my movie reviews online. I get a lot of people telling me in person, and they say they follow all of my movie stuff. I’ve gotten a lot of people to watch movies they never heard and got people into watching TV shows ’cause of what I do on here and facebook. I even gotten a shout out by the Metroland years back ’cause of this stuff and they still support me to this day.

Hey, that’s another idea, I can send contributions to the Metroland, and maybe they would be up for it. I can submit my movie reviews to them and maybe they would get published on their Thursday papers. I’ll take that into consideration and give it a try. They’re big fans of my writing, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t want me to write articles to them. Maybe I can write a weekly movie column to the Metroland, that would be pretty cool.

How do I know so much about the movie industry?

Well, I’ve been a movie buff for years. Pretty much my whole life. I try to watch all the classics as much as I can and I try to watch all the new stuff as much as I can. I know who the directors are, even producers, and I know who all the actors are. I even know what goes on behind the scenes of films and how they make movies. I even do a lot of reading about the movie industry through books & magazines, the internet.

I’m just huge a lover of films, and Hollywood. I even wanted to get into screenwriting and film making myself a little, it’s true. I love talking about movies. I don’t feel ashamed of talking about nothing but movies to other people, and I’ll never get bored of it. I don’t feel bad at all collecting a lot of DVD’s and BluRays. Well, I haven’t been buying much DVD’s anymore since the BluRay market is so huge. I’ve been getting into BluRay more.

Movies has always been a huge part of my life. That’s why I was glad to visit Hollywood, California at one time, ’cause that was amazing to see all that. I got to see Hollywood Blvd, the Chinese Grauman Theater, the Walk of Fame, and the Hollywood Sign. All of it. That’s when I got big into Marilyn Monroe. While I love to watch all kinds of films pretty much everything. My most watched genres are action, horror, and drama films.

I need to be inspired. So I feel the need to learn about Hollywood and films as much as I could, every detail. The story, characters, the behind the scene stuff, etc. If you want to be a movie buff, you need to learn it all.

It’s part of the reason why I’m on twitter. There’s so many actors and directors with their own official twitter pages, they show off a lot of cool stuff and give you exclusive news.

Speaking of movies, I’m about to watch, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” tonight, a Netflix DVD rental. I watched, “The Bourne Legacy”, a few nights ago and it was actually pretty good.

Kev

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Cool Photo: See the NEW Carrie drenched in pig’s blood!!!

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Chloe Moretz herself, was the first to release this photo still from the upcoming “Carrie”, remake. She released it herself exclusively on her instagram page. Stephen King himself, is not involved with the new “Carrie” remake, at all. Which is a good thing actually. I’m a big Stephen King fan, but mostly a fan of his writing. Most of his movies are garbage with the exception of “The Shawshank Redemption”, “The Green Mile”, “Misery”, “Needful Things”, “Pet Sematary”, “Stand By Me”, and “Dreamcatcher” which I thought were really good films.

I didn’t even care for Depalma’s version of “Carrie” that much, it didn’t follow the book hardly at all. So I’m hoping the remake will stay faithful to the book. I plan on re-reading “Carrie” soon.

See Chloe drenched in pig’s blood here. I hope they do the film justice, and hope they make it better than the Depalma version. Sissy Spacek was a great Carrie White, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that the script was really bad. Could the remake do the prom scene just as good? I’m hoping!

Kev

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I honestly think the Oscars should take place before the Golden Globes, so the winners can be less predictable…

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I hope I’m not the only one who feels this way but is everyone else getting tired of the winner choices of films being the same between the Golden Globes and the Oscars? This is why I believe it’s best that the Oscars should take place sometime before the Golden Globes. I’m not sure why the Oscars is always taken place sometime after the Golden Globes. I think the Oscars would be more fun if the winners were less predictable, you know what I mean? Oh well, it is what it is.

I did watch the Oscars last night, even the Red Carpet special before it. I hate the Red Carpet. It’s all pretty goofy and pretty pretentious, in my opinion. I just watch the Red Carpet for laughs ’cause it is kind of humorous to watch the stars jerk off with their fashion and the photographers. When it comes to Red Carpet stuff, I don’t really get into the who dresses best or who dresses worst thing. Although, I would admit, that Charlize Theron was looking the best though, I couldn’t resist saying that. Charlize was looking pretty smoking with the short hair. She has always been gorgeous and always has been one of my favorite female celebs.

Seth Macfarlane did a pretty good job hosting. I liked his opening segment, except I thought his “I Saw Boobs” song was pretty lame and stupid. Other than that, I liked the William Shatner appearance where he played Cpt. Kirk again. It was cool seeing the Shat as Kirk for one more time and he still has it. He can still play the character well!

I haven’t seen the movie “Argo” yet, but I want to. Another negative I have about the Oscars is that “Argo” won for Best Picture, and Ben Affleck got the snub for Best Director. I thought that was pretty lame too. Ben seems to be always getting ignored for the Best Director category even though he seems to be winning other stuff. Ben Affleck is a talented guy, I’ve always liked him. I just wish he would get more respect with his directing.

The same with Tarantino, he got the Best Director snub too. Even though, “Django Unchained”, used the “N” word a lot, that is still not stopping Quentin for winning a Best Screenplay award which is well deserved.

I haven’t seen any of the other movies like “Life of Pi”, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” either, but I’ll check them out soon through Netflix DVD rental.

I liked the Catherine Zeta Jones, “All That Jazz” performance. The performance by the Les Miserables cast was really good too. Of course, Adele killed it with the “Skyfall” theme. I thought the Oscars did a good job with the 50 Years Tribute to James Bond. That was well put together.

It was a pretty good Oscars show. Definitely better than this year’s crappy Golden Globes.

Kev