Joie' De Vivre On Celluloid: Live Free Or Die Hard

Bruce Willis isn't exactly old, and Justin Long isn't exactly a kid either, but they both have different experiences between themselves that define age in the best way. That's why they crack inapplicable jokes on each other involving age. And it's a well played game between them. It elevates the movie into Character A and Character B territory. That is--in the sense of actual portrayals from gifted actors--to each his own. Bravo. Which is exactly the kind of creativity you need to inject into your summer blockbusters to make them stronger then most. Then you have a real movie, and not just some popcorn selling marketing and advertising machine.

(Silly announcer voice) But wait! There's more!

Rango Trailer Drops

I've long known and been proud to watch Johnny Depp personify a chameleon in every film he does. Now Johnny Depp actually is a chameleon, son. Well, voicing one. Perhaps the most fitting voice-over in the history of animation? His name is Rango and he looks like he's got some trouble coming his way. Along with myself to a theater the night this hits at 12:01.



Rango hits theaters March 4th, 2011. It stars Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone and Timothy Olyphant. It's directed by the awesome Gore Verbinski.

Be keeping you posted.

Munki out.

Joie' De Vivre On Celluloid: Hitman

Tim Olyphant stars as Hitman or, the bar-coded Agent 47 in this more refined take in recent years on a video game. With all of them rolling out all the time, every now and then, they gotta get one right. Right? Yezir...

A Review: The Crazies, Maybe Not So Crazie Afterall

Or, maybe it would depend on how you look at it, because like Roger said, the zombie genre is a very exhausted one. In fact, running strong and revitalized since the boom with '02 Danny Boyle flick, 28 Days Later, I'm sorta waiting until it blows out it's knee and retires itself for a hot minute. 

So it's kinda hard to get excited about this stuff, unless you're die hard, or the director is bringing a unique approach to the thing. While not entirely fresh, director Breck Eisner skipped out on plenty (but not all) of the hackneyed and commonplace tricks of this sort of trade, and went for the straight-forward, "let's-not-try-too-hard-and-just-do-this-dirty" approach. And it worked.