Ryan McNeil
Where the heck did February go? I swear just yesterday that pesky groundhog was telling us it would be a late spring, and now there’s all this talk of lions, and lambs, and what not. There’s a lot on my mind at the moment, so pardon me if I keep this week’s intro short & sweet.
For starters, please note that I’ve started a Facebook page for this blog. So if you feel so inclined, please follow me there! I’ll be doing a week-long series of Oscar posts next week, thus I’ll be skipping my E-T feature next Friday. To make up for that, I’m going to try and load up this particular entry.
So, for your reading fulfillment I give you…
Everyone was talking about SHUTTER ISLAND this week. Danny King and his bulletin wonders if it might have been Oscar bait.
Fletch, who took one for the team and watched DAYBREAKERS.
RTM at Flixchatter felt slightly underwhelmed by THE HURT LOCKER and flips those feelings into a conversation about critical darlings that leave you unimpressed.
Joel might have ditched the magical ticket stub, but he’s still seeing good movies – check out his thoughts on THE WHITE RIBBON.
Bryce at Things That Don’t Suck wrote a wonderfully thoughtful piece on 2004’s SIDEWAYS.
Casey has posted an exhaustive list of the best movie soundtracks – but resist the urge to point out that he missed one of the greatest of them all.
Nick from Random Ramblings has watched PONTYPOOL, one of my favorite dvd discoveries lately.
Number Six has dispelled the mystery and given us all the story behind his handle.
Ross & Ross are back at it – this time arguing CHICAGO and MOULIN ROUGE! (Count me in on Team Baz you guys).
Finally, one of the best bloggers going, Sam at Wonders In the Dark is contemplating the best films of this new century.
Enjoy!
Hard Day's Night really is tough to beat. Well played.
Wow someone went all the way out on their linkage this week! *rolls up sleeves* now off to attack.
SURELY The Mad Hatter of all people should be delighted at the arrival of the maddest of months? Or perhaps you're disgruntled your friend the Hare takes centre stage this month? Or perhaps you're both disgruntled that a number of European cinemas are boycotting your film?
Looks kinda crap anyway. No offense.
Although the Cheshire Cat is sorta cute
Nice collection of links to some new blogs I had never visited before! Kudos.
@ Aiden… The really sick thing? That entire soundtrack was completely ignored by Oscar that year (remind yourself that along with the title track "Can't Buy Me Love", "Should Have Known Better", "And I Love Her" and "If I Fell" were all written specific for the movie).
@ Univarn… Tonight I'm actually gonna tweak this a bit. look for your podcast to get added to the tally.
@ Ross… Why would I take offense? It's just an avatar man, not an actual way of life.
I'm unsure of just how this movie will play. After all the oscar hullabaloo, check back for both a review and a podcast about it.
@ Castor… Glad I could point you towards some new voices!
Thanks for the shout-out, Hatter, always appreciate it. Some cool stuff here to devour… man I can't even keep up with YOUR blog! Well, hat's off to you! 🙂
Looking forward to your Oscar posts next week 🙂
Hatter, you should do a post on Pontypool, I'm not interested in why you liked it.
@ RTM… Are you joking? As time goes by I can hardly keep up with it. Seems like every week brings me a new blog to follow!
@ Dreher… They'll kick off Tuesday with a look at the screenplay nominations.
@ Mike… It's harder for me to write reviews on movies I watch on dvd. This was the best I could muster. Are you not a fan?
I was really happy to see Casey's soundtrack list since that was going to be my Top Ten this week, I'm going to postpone finishing it for a few more weeks to make sure I'm not too directly influenced.
Lots of interesting articles this week though!
Hey, thanks so much for the shout-out Hatter. And I didn't put that one cause it would have been cheating! haha I love the beatles
Sorry for the untimely post Heather!