Movie Biases: C’mon now - you tell me!
Major Players: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, co-writer Paul Haggis, director Marc Forster.
Logline: Avenging the death of his duplicitous love Vesper Lynd, James Bond (Craig) pursues a wealthy, shady environmentalist (Mathieu Amalric) who’s cutting deals with the CIA, Bolivian government, and a nefarious, power-hungry dictator (Joaquin Cosio) […]
ENTERTAINMENT/FILM/REVIEWS
Movie Biases: I like to move it move it - again!
Major Players: Voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bernie Mac.
Logline: When their airplane crashes over the African bush while heading home to New York, Alex (Stiller) is reunited with his long lost lion father Zuba (Mac), […]
Movie Biases: Loved “Snatch” - looks like Ritchie in his element.
Major Players: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, writer/director Guy Ritchie
Logline: A real estate deal between a gangster (Wilkinson) and a shady Russian businessman (Karel Roden) sucks in the London underworld around two robberies of 7 million euros each, a missing […]
Biases: C’mon - look at the title!
Major Players: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Justin Long, Jason Mewes, writer/director Kevin Smith
Logline: Cash-strapped lifelong best friends and roommates Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) decide to make an adult film, only to find that there may be more to their friendship when they’re the stars of their […]
This is it. My final blog before America elects a new president. No matter what the outcome is on Tuesday, it has been an extraordinary experience to share this historic election process with all of you here at UTC.
Huge early voting suggests the excitement generated by this election and the speculation of massive […]
PRIDE AND GLORY (R)
Biases: Nice cast, but generic-looking cops-gone-bad trailer.
Players: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, co-writer Joe Carnahan, co-writer/director Gavin O’Connor
Logline: A messy bloodbath of four murdered NYPD cops takes reluctant investigator Ray Tierney (Norton) down a rabbit hole of police corruption inside his police chief father’s (Voight) department, with all roads leading to […]
With less than two weeks to the election and all the debates over I can FINALLY catch up on a few things entertaining (or not) this fall. Let’s get started!
I could not wait for Grey’s Anatomy to come back. It’s one of my favorite hour dramas where the off screen drama is sometimes equal to, […]
The third and final Presidential Debate is over, finally. Even the most enthusiastic political junkie is ready for this campaign to be over. The candidates look tired and I think we are all ready to Just Vote! The economic crash has all Americans and the world desperate for action, hard decisions and leadership. I would […]
MOVIE BIASES:
Pre-sold - but I hear it’s long as hell.
MAJOR PLAYERS:
Derek Luke, Laz Alonso, Michael Ealy, director Spike Lee
Logline:
A cold-blooded murder by a World War II vet (Alonso) in 1983 unravels a flashback involving the untold story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the first all-black infantry unit in the U.S. Army, and the bond they […]
DEBATE NOTES: THE FIGHT THAT WASN’T
For the most anticipated and hyped Presidential debate between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, everyone wanted to see a knockout. When it was over, not only was there no knockout, but there was hardly a fight. During the 90 plus minute debate, the two men rarely looked […]