Category: Movies

  • Best and Worst of the James Bond Movies

    I’m not writing this as some kind of definitive list, but more in response to The Playlist‘s ranking of what writer Oliver Lyttelton considers to be the five worst James Bond film. His list includes Diamonds are Forever (1971), Moonraker (1979) [disagree], Licence To Kill (1989), Die Another Day (2002) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Of course, like all lists these are someone else’s opinion and pretending…

  • How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert’s List of Great Movies Have You Seen?

    I’ve mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert’s Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb’s Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone…

  • Updated: Watch All the 2009 Super Bowl Movie Trailers

    From what I understand we should be expecting plenty of new trailers during Super Bowl XLIII and this will be the place to find them as they appear online and some are already here and are featured below. Rumor has it this is the list of films that have been confirmed to have trailers appearing.…

  • Meryl Streep’s New ‘Into the Woods’ Song Cut from the Final Film

    It was revealed last year that Stephen Sondheim had written a new song for Meryl Streep as the Witch in the upcoming musical Into the Woods at Disney. Streep told Extra!, “I have a new song that Sondheim wrote for me, so it’s all very, very… He gave me the manuscript of it and he wrote, ‘don’t f**k it up!’” Well, no…

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire depicts a culture clash between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. Blanche is a Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism. Arriving at the…

  • Dark Matter (2008)

    SYNOPSIS: The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, Dark Matter delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the United States in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed…

  • Welcome to the New RopeofSilicon.com: New Features and Your Thoughts

    By now I’m sure you have all noticed… things look a little different around here. I’ve been talking about an upcoming redesign for the last couple of months and finally pulled the trigger and hopefully you like what you’ve seen so far. However, I know change is a tough thing when you’re used to something…

  • Morning Glory

    From director Roger Michell (“Notting Hill,” “Venus”), producer J.J. Abrams (“Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost,” “Star Trek”), and writer Aline Brosh McKenna (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “27 Dresses”), comes “Morning Glory,” a new romantic comedy set in the hilarious and dysfunctional world of morning television. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton star along with Patrick Wilson…

  • Batman 3 (TBA)

    Starring:Director:Studio: Warner Bros.Rating: NRGenre: Action / Adventure / Comic BookRelease Date: TBA SYNOPSIS: The unconfirmed third Batman film in director Christopher Nolan’s film trilogy. PHOTOS: THERE ARE NO PICTURES AVAILABLE FOR THIS TITLE TRAILERS & CLIPS: THERE ARE NO VIDEOS AVAILABLE FOR THIS TITLE GET ALL 5 ARTICLES HERE NEWS:  Movie Production Update: January 30,…

  • Zoolander (2001)

    STARRING: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller, Jon Voight, David Duchovny, Christian Slater, Andy Dick, Patton Oswalt, Fred Durst, Andrew Wilson, Godfrey DIRECTOR: Ben Stiller STUDIO: Paramount Classics RATING: PG-13 GENRE: Comedy RELEASE DATE: September 28, 2001 DVD STREET DATE: November 30, 1999 WEBSITE: Official Site BOX-OFFICE: SYNOPSIS: Amazon.comCharge your micro-mini cell phones and whip up some orange mocha Frappuccino, ‘cuz Zoolander is on…