Movie Review Monday: Somewhere

The above trailer is set to the music of my 2nd favorite band of all time (The Strokes) and their song I’ll Try Anything Once. Lyrics below. The song, and the movie remind me of the quiet, actually brief but seemingly epic moments in life when you truly appreciate what you have had, what you [...]

Movie Monday: MIRAL

As an English Teacher travelling to far off foreign lands, it is only a matter of time before your ignorance is exposed. In Egypt, I learned that it is not always so simple and easy for someone to just want peace. A student of mine asked me plainly: “What would you do if they came [...]

HOWL

Images are put to Allen Ginsberg’s powerful beat generation poem and its literary value is put on trial. Music by: Jack Arel and Jean-Caude Petit “Tonight At The Sands” Steve Gray “Steve’s Place” Danny Baker “To Have & Havier” Teddy Lasry “Dim The Lights” and “Uptown Boogie” Mel Young “On The Beat” George and Ira [...]

Runaway, why don’t you?

So moments after Kanye’s short film Runaway hit the internets, people started chiming in with their opinions. Bruce Willis 80s action movie Kanye fans wasted no time in touting the flick a masterpiece. While the Biggie Smalls Life After Death Disc Two Track 6′s immediately hit the artist with labels the likes of Fag-o-tron and [...]

MERCY

Scott “Whooligan” Caan, writes and stars in this flick and does a good job at both. You could say that this is a just a modern retelling of the 1970s classic Love Story because (spoiler alert!) of what happens to the female lead character. But it didn’t feel that way to me. To me it felt [...]

Breaking Upwards

    Nothing is forever. Or so they say. Does that making forever, nothing? In the sense that staying together ain’t nuthin? Like there ain’t nothing to it, but to do it? Who knows… This is for lovers of independent, low-budget film. Set in the always scenic New York City, where all great sad romantic [...]

The Last Waltz

For lovers of good music. I know I wasn’t born yet. I know I’m not white. Heck, I call myself BLACK Ty for Mohammed’s sake; I’m aware of what is what. And what this right here is, is good music. Find the movie. Find the music. I have no links for you this time. If [...]

This Week @ The Movies

A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him. The movie stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Mike Epps, Heather Graham, and Iron Mike Tyson. These comedies (Anchorman, Old School, Wedding Crashers, Superbad, I Love You [...]

Una Pasion Secreta (The Reader)

I went into The Reader, not knowing what it was about. The title sounded boring enough, but all the Oscar nominations forced me into wanting to know what all the hoop-la was really about. Within the first few minutes, three was female nudity. Always a good sign. And I had been a big fan of [...]

Clubbed

This movie is Ghost Dog meets Lock Stock.  While still mildly entertaining, I can’t help but think that UK gangster flicks should be left to the likes of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn.   Needless gore, a horribly misplaced soundtrack and an unfocused plot-line accompany sub par acting in Clubbed, a story about being a bouncer, [...]