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Talk About Grit!: UNBROKEN (Angelina Jolie)
Wartime dramas can be tough no matter what, but Angelina Jolie has directed a film with no let up on the grueling physical and mental anguish that Zamperini experienced. I think if Unbroken cut out a few days at sea and a couple of beatings and instead we got to see Louis...
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Cut Print Film: GODZILLA
I got to virtually meet a fellow Philly film writer this week! Jeff Rollins of the awesome site Cut Print Film, their site design is so contemporary, it really make me want to redesign T&T. We got to talking and decided it would be cool to do a cross promotion of each others sites. CPF did a fantastic job of promoting my Belle post and I’m super happy to post their Godzilla review! It’s everything I wanted to say about the movie, yet now I don’t have to write it: By Chris Evangelista Godzilla arrives with all the fanfare and hype possible for the King of the Monsters. Essentially…
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Guest Contributor: PACIFIC RIM
I’ve made mention about a social media platform in Philadelphia called Collaborate Philly HERE, HERE & HERE. The founder Sam Watson, graduated from film school, so I gave him an open invitation to write a post for Tinsel & Tine whenever time allowed. With the lazy days of summer upon us, Sam found himself with time to see the latest in summer apocalyptic movies – Pacific Rim… Monsters appear. Robots smash. Success! That pretty much sums up Guillermo del Toro’s new summer flick, Pacific Rim. The movie is built on the backs of H.P. Lovecraft and almost any B-horror movie featuring giant beast knocking buildings over. We are thrown…
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Henry Cavill: MAN OF STEEL
Well, as I’ve stated in two previous posts: Simply Marvel-ous: The 4 Comic Book Movies You Don’t Want to Miss and Grazing: THIS IS THE END I wholly approve of the new Superman Henry Cavill, I had seen him in the Immortals and I remember him being the only thing good about that movie; but it took him playing The Man of Steel to really capture my attention. I was surprised to also like Amy Adams as Lois Lane. When I first heard she’d be playing the role, I felt she was too over-exposed and that a lesser known actress should play the part. But as this Lois Lane character…
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Time to Hang Up “The Hangover” : THE HANGOVER PART III
In the third installment of the Hangover Series, Director Todd Phillips proves Hangovers gets worst with age By Christopher “Flood the Drummer”® Norris In the third and hopefully truly the final of The Hangover series, Director Todd Phillips reached deep into the basket of desperation and retrieved a series of over-the-top jokes, puns and homoerotic anecdotes that made light of the murdering and drugging of animals, elderly abuse and sodomy. The movie opens with the irresponsible and off-putting Alan (Zach Galifianakis) drinking a beer while driving a sleek, new, Mercedes convertible coupe. Traveling on a busy highway with a trailer attached transporting a large giraffe, Alan drives through an underpass…
