Each and every year film festivals give film fanatics from around the world a chance to see something unique and different from the traditional Hollywood studio releases and the odd independent or foreign film that might get a short and usually unnoticed run at a local theater before disappearing into relative obscurity and the shelves of a local video store.
It's been another year since I cashed in my Oscar hopes and scares. Why did I wait so long to fire off another Oscar look? Well you would have to look back at the year that was 2004.
As it goes with Oscar, it is the first time in three years that a Lord of the Rings film hasn't sucked up so many categories like a Hoover vacuum.
Can anyone out there even remember how long it's been since the original Mask film arrived in theatres? Well think of it this way â€" Jim Carrey was just starting to make a splash on the big screen and a little unknown actress named Cameron Diaz was cast as his love interest.
So you feel like hell.
You look like hell.
You're coughing up a lung from your six-pack a day smoking addiction.
Is it just me, or is Keanu Reeves getting more and more like Clint Eastwood? Like Clint, he's a likable guy, but he never says much and when he does talk, it's never much more than a whisper.
John Constantine is a tormented soul who performs exorcisms, investigates things that are not normal, and has lung cancer but has no chance of getting into heaven (maybe because he chain smokes).
I find people often quickly disregard Keanu Reeves films simply due to his presence. As an avid fan of the Bill and Ted films, as well as Point Break, I've always held a special place in my heart for Mr. Reeves' blank, yet slightly awed stare.
Review: Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • February 11, 2005 @ 11:59am
In 1926, A.A. Milne invited us into the world of Winnie-the-Pooh, drawing upon the lovable gang of the Hundred Acre Wood. You don't have to be of any particular age to love the adventures of Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo. Being in a theatre watching Walt Disney's Heffalump Movie, you can feel the excitement radiating surrounded by giggling children.
How can one improve on the most formulaic of genres? The romantic comedy probably suffers more from formula than any other genre on the silver screen.
What goes through the mind of your average TV star? Well Bob Crane, star of the successful 1960's TV series Hogan's Heroes, wasn't quite your average guy.
Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) was thrust into the public eye with the help of his successful comedy series.
Over the years there have been many great actors who have given many great performances. A list of performances worthy of that honor would be impossible to compile. After all, how can you compare the careers of so many actors against one another when each actor is so uniquely different from the next.
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