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ACADEMY AWARDS WE’D LIKE TO SEE

This weekend there will be another really long Academy Awards broadcast on television where the same old awards will be given out in the usual categories; best picture, best actor, best actress, etc.  Wouldn’t it be cool if we got to suggest Academy Awards categories we’d like to see?
I think every year there should [...]

THEY MAY BE FAMOUS, BUT THEY’VE NEVER WON AN ACADEMY AWARD

A surprising number of really good actors and actresses have never won an Academy Award.  Sandra Bullock has the chance to get off the list of Oscar-less actresses this weekend as she is nominated for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side.  Here are 15 other actors and actresses who may be famous, [...]

WHO IS THE BEST LIVING “GANGSTER” ACTOR?

February 9th is actor Joe Pesci’s 67th birthday.  Pesci, some might say, is the best actor to play a gangster of all time.  His role in Goodfellas is certainly a classic.  With this in mind, it could be fun to launch the discussion,  Who Are The Top Five Best Living Actors Who Have Played Gangsters? [...]

GONE WITH THE WIND PREMIERS

On December 15, 1939 20th Century’s classic film Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.  Probably the best remembered line from that film is Rhett Butler’s “Frankly, my dear I don’t give a damn.”  But, is it really the greatest movie line of all-time?  This brings to mind the topic, “The Greatest Movie Line [...]

BAD MOVIE ENDINGS MADE GOOD

Have you ever watched a movie and said to yourself when it was over, man, was that a disappointing ending?  Sometimes movies just don’t end the way we’d like them to end.  Well the folks at Howitshouldhaveended.com have your back on this one.  Every month they skewer one unlucky movie with animations that imagine what [...]

THE THINGS WE DO IN THE NAME OF THE KIDS

The film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic children’s story Where Wild Things Are opens in theaters on October 16th.  That means parents across the country will be pretending they have to take their kids to this movie when, secretly, they have been looking forward to seeing it themselves.
This brings up the question, “What [...]

HOW SUCCESSFUL WOULD THESE MOVIES HAVE BEEN IF….?

Actors make decisions all the time as to whether they will accept a role in a film or not.  Some of the roles they decide to turn down turn out to be good decisions, while others turn out to be missed opportunities.  You have to wonder whether these hit movies would have been as successful [...]

WHAT ARE THE BEST CHILDREN’S MOVIES OF ALL TIME?

The 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz is being shown in HD in movie theaters across the country for one night only on September 23rd.  Doubtless thousands of classic movie fans will flock to theaters to see this great classic children’s story reborn in HD on the big screen.
While the Wizard of Oz certainly [...]

MY LIFE COULD BE A FINAL DESTINATION MOVIE

This summer’s blockbuster movie The Final Destination is the 4th in a series of four films that have generated worldwide box office revenues of $316,577,307 to date.  All four have plots that are essentially about cheating death.  So, consider the topic, “I Cheated Death When I…..”
Most of us have experienced situations where we came [...]

UNIQUE V.I.P CELEBRITY ACCESS

The thing people want most in life, even more so than money, is exciting new experiences.  There is no more exciting experience, for many people, than to get exclusive, up-close access to celebrities, exclusive VIP parties, and movie and TV sets.
While doing some research on how to get tickets to television show tapings, I came [...]