Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 1:00PM The first still from a movie called Regression starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson. You captioned it and dialogued it. It's time to name the winner, who chooses the new banner theme.
"I'm sorry it has to come to this, but......five points WILL be taken from Gryffindor."
-Jake D
Choose your banner theme, Jake!
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 11:39AM Flaunt magazine, which always has amazing photoshoots of gorgeousity, is featuring Elizabeth Olsen right about now with a profile article and a photoshoot. I've been smitten since that eery girl-without-a-center performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene but it didn't hurt that when I met her on the Oscar campaign trail that year she was even more beautiful (skin of creamy flawlessness) and we talked Michelle Pfeiffer since she's also a pfan. But I digress...
These days she doesn't have to wait for her phone to ring with movie roles though we've yet to see a role or performance from her as stellar as that quadruple named indie breakthrough. [More...]
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 9:23AM I am bad at math. There's actually 10/11 steps
1. Waking up to too few comments, tweets, shares, likes
2. Coffee
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 10:11PM For the mid season finale of Hit Me With Your Best Shot, and since we've been revisiting 1964 for its 50th, we're looking at the James Bond classic Goldfinger (1964). After selecting the movie I began to worry that perhaps the early image of a dead beauty suffocated in gold paint was too iconic to have people looking elsewhere but trust this crowd to keep their eyes open and receptive to varying beauties. Or maybe the Best Shot club (open to all -why haven't you joined?) was just purposefully avoiding it due to its fame?
Click on the images for the corresponding article...
GOLDFINGER'S BEST SHOTS
9 shots chosen by 12 secret agents of blogging
(in chronological order within the film)
The image, created by Robert Brownjohn is nearly prophetic and totally inadvertently so...
-The Movie Scene *new participant* welcome!
Girls, Girls, Girls..."
-The Film's The Thing
The all-time perfect collision of the things that, to my mind, make Bond Bond..."
-Antagony & Ecstasy
Margaret: Sexy, sexy violence.
Anne Marie: I suppose that’s what happens when you bring your work into the bedroom.
-We Recycle Movies
What I always loved about James Bond is his ability to get under the skin of his opponent - to instinctively know which buttons to push..."
-The Matinee
A cramped space that nonetheless is full of detail...
-Drew Byrd *new participant* - welcome!
Hamilton and director of photography Ted Moore shoot much of this film from wide-angles, which makes the film look "big"..."
-Entertainment Junkie
There's something beautiful about the Bond movies when they slow down..."
-Basket of Kisses via TFE *new participant* - welcome!
Three layers of depth here..."
-Allison Tooey
One of the most fascinating things about this iteration of James Bond is how ineffective he is...
-Film Actually
Goldfinger, however, does know how to pop some colors..."
-Coco Hits NY
We need to talk about James Bond's cock in Goldfinger..."
-The Film Experience
Please check out these fine articles. I really enjoyed this finale - some really funny and interesting pieces this time. This is our midseason finale. If you'd like 'Hit Me' to return in July, please do comment and support the series through comments, shares, tweets, and likes.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 8:00PM 
In what is unmistakably a sign of the apocalypse, Warner Bros is prepping a reboot of Scooby-Doo which was live action'ed in the long long ago era of 2002, the same year that spawned the original Spider-Man already two-years replaced to no one's advantage. We already know that Tomb Raider will happen sooner rather than later. What's next from the early Aughts? Red Dragon, which was itself a do-over of Manhunter (1986)? 8 Mile starring Macklemore? Stuart Little? Panic Room? Legally Blonde? Oceans 11 with an all new cast of younger cool? Charlies Angels?
The most depressing thing about the do-over craze isn't that it exists exactly since the movies have always tried to repeat successes. But that it did not replace sequels. Several franchises from the nineties and early aughts are STILL producing sequels (Fast & Furious, The Bourne Identity, X-Men, Mission Impossible, etcetera). You can't have both, Hollywood. We'll have nothing new ever. Blargh!
Harry Potter, Scooby Doo, remakes, sequels 