Zack’s Odyssey Chapter 1 Where we are introduced to a new kind of art-form and where no one is let off the hook. So I’ve heard before from creative peoples that if you want to be happy with what you’re doing, you have to create for yourself and not for anyone else. Which is an [...]
I figure if I just wear a fedora with a “PRESS” card in the band, I can get into at least a few screenings. Right? Until then, I’ve found a better media center for to steal my news. No noisy kids or students. No chess clubs or parental invasions. Just a hot asiago pretzel and iced white mocha. Extra shot. Light ice. And a window seat with a sill. And wifely company. Exactly how theft should be.
Sleeper Cell will reflect movies that perhaps you missed or have always been meaning to watch but are too much of an asshole to place into your Netflix queue.  This could be a movie from 50 years ago or a movie from last year.  Bottom line, these are choice flicks and you missed out so [...]
Sigh Oh my. Where to begin. At the beginning … this really isn’t the worst movie in the world, despite what reviewers all over that ninnernets would have you believe. It’s no good. I’ll give them that, but it’s definitely not the worst in the world. But that’s cool ‘cause it wasn’t released in theaters. [...]
Since my last news post, I have yet to earn a press pass and have not received an invitation to judge the Toronto Film Festival. Go figure. But, I have spent a few hours in a Barnes and Noble stealing more news. And this time, instead of a noisy chess club and loud philosophical college [...]
So just one review ago, I declared my disdain for adaptations of Stephen King’s novels (by and large). However, his shorter works seem to make for better movies. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (little known fact: this is the novella that spawned Frank Darabont’s masterpiece, The Shawshank Redemption), weighing in at just over 100 pages [...]
This is important: I’m not a reporter. I’ve never spoken to any famous actors. I’ve never gone to a movie screening. I’ve never interviewed an unknown director on his up and coming breakout hit movie. So if I’m breaking news, you know it’s because I stole it straight from the pages of people who actually [...]
So. Imagine you’ve reached the climax (heh) of a the novel you’re reading, and the supernatural, demon bad-guy is confronted by the local law enforcement officer, and this cop opens up a can of peanuts in the demon’s face. But stay with me though. Because it’s not even a can of peanuts. It’s one of [...]
You know, driving is one of my all time favorite things to do. I sit in the air conditioned comfy seat, and rock out to my favorite tunes. It’s awesome. But, as much as I love it, sometimes I space out, and lose track of what’s going on. And maybe I drift a little. Nothing [...]
Ok, so we’ve been running this little SLEEPER CELL section of the Mediabreach for going on eight months now, so it’s probably a little late for an introduction. Still, here I am. Hello, my name is Zack, and I love movies. (Everybody, let’s welcome Zack to the group. Group response (smiling, but not too excited): [...]
The new animated feature from the director of Belleville Rendezvous (The Triplets of Belleville), Sylvain Chomet. This looks amazing early, and will no doubt make us all forget about Eddie Norton’s disappointing magic man movie. Old man magician movies have some kind of charm – see also The Great Buck Howard. You might have to [...]
Volume two of our musical theater sleepers takes us into darker territory. Obviously, Sweeney Todd isn’t really a sleeper since most people at least know the basic story: dude returns from his banishment to Botany Bay (and beyond) to find that his wife has died and his daughter adopted by said dude’s evil nemesis. Dude [...]
Now I know what you’re thinkin. You saw the title “Candide” and thought, “He’s not really going to talk about eighteenth century French literature is he?? Vous misez ton cul I am. Recorded live from Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, New York. It’s here we [...]
As much as we’d sometimes like to believe it, no first time feature length motion picture director just up and makes a movie for the first time ever and churns out work that can be compared to the great movies of all time, such as Reservoir Dogs or The Shawshank Redemption. It just doesn’t happen. [...]
Instead of a new review of an overlooked movie, I thought it necessary to instead offer a look at the next sure blockbuster. Julia Roberts (the star of such films as Closer, Flatliners and sister to film superstar Eric Roberts (Dark Knight) and aunt to newcomer Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew) is once again showing us all how it’s done.
Eat, Pray, Love is the new movie from Hollywood’s very own Queen of Everything, Julia Roberts (based on the memoir of the same name by Elizabeth Gilbert). She stars as some woman unfulfilled by her wonderful life who goes to far off countries in hopes of finding out something true about the universe. She tries to get a divorce, cheats on her husband, studies yoga in India, eats her way through a few months in Italy and cheats on her husband some more in Indonesia. Hooray! It’s okay though, ’cause her husband is the very borderline-attractive Billy Crudup, and she’s doin’ it with James Franco (and maybe Javier Bardem). Also starring Viola Davis (from Knight and Day and Nights in Rodanthe) and Richard Jenkins (of Dear John and Fun with Dick and Jane). Opens August 13 EVERYWHERE!
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