Djake brought his Blu-Ray copy of Looper for Sam and I to borrow while he was in Boston the next week and a half. We immediately watched the movie that night since we have been looking forward to seeing it after hearing so many good things. The cover of the Blu-Ray was pretty cool with a gun-pointing Bruce Willis and also an unrecognizable Joseph-Gordon-Levitt looking tough. See, J-G-L is actually B. Willis, just 30 years younger. It took a bit to get used to as J-G-L's makeup was kind of weird, Read more [...] Best Time Travel Film in the Last 20 Years!
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Djake brought his Blu-Ray copy of Looper for Sam and I to borrow while he was in Boston the next week and a half. We immediately watched the movie that night since we have been looking forward to seeing it after hearing so many good things. The cover of the Blu-Ray was pretty cool with a gun-pointing Bruce Willis and also an unrecognizable Joseph-Gordon-Levitt looking tough. See, J-G-L is actually B. Willis, just 30 years younger. It took a bit to get used to as J-G-L's makeup was kind of weird, Read more [...] 
Just a quick post to let everyone know I'm still alive. I have been watching movies, I assure you. One recently was Battle of Britain. It was one of many WWII flicks sitting on my shelf that are waiting for my viewing. A few months ago, I posted about watching A Bridge Too Far. Like Bridge, Battle of Britain had a fairly large, epic scope and a lot of familiar faces.
The movie begins after Germany has already bullied their way west, and taking over France, their eyes now set on England. Their tactic 
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit the big screen in dramatic fashion last year. The Impossible documents the amazing true story of a family of five facing the deadliest tsunami in recorded history (230,000 killed). Not since the spate of disaster movies of the mid to late nineties has a family been up against such-- and I'm already running out of synonyms here--insurmountable odds. And to add insult to injury they're on vacation in a foreign land, Thailand to be precise.
You might 
It's been fairly quiet around here this week... almost too quiet. If Cinematic Attic were a movie, I'd be walking down a deserted street, sidestepping newspapers proclaiming an imminent zombie apocalypse. I'd have no idea how I got here, and I'd have no idea what to do. Then suddenly, a mutant vampire would grab at my leg from a sewer grate!
OK, I guess it's not been that quiet here, and I imagine we writers got all hot and bothered for the Oscars and then ended up taking this week off to recover 
Now that the Oscars are over, we all get to look back and defend our choices and continue to bash those that we felt were undeserving. But the truth is, often times when it comes down to an awards show like this, the actual movies and the work that they're showcasing get overshadowed. Wouldn't it be spectacular if the Oscars aired every single movie over a couple week period so everyone would be free to watch them and vote however they wanted? Since that's not really a possibility for most of