Over on Google+, Chris Pirillo asked everybody what their favorite movie is and why. Every time I hear this question, the first movie that always pops in my head is Backdraft. Every time. Without digging any further into the vast collection of movie titles up there, Backdraft is always the first one to pop up when someone asks what my one favorite movie is. From the actors, to the story, even the sound. The sound!! [...]

Troll The link above is to a movie that came out in 1986 called “Troll.” Anybody recognize the names of the two leading roles? o_O Coincidence? I don’t know. I thought it was also funny that two of the people who played roles in the film have the same last name as a character in another novel by J. K. Rowling. I came across this today as I was looking at the cast for the [...]

I was watching Transformers a couple years ago, and noticed that a camera technique they used during the gunfight scene in the hangar, was very similar to the technique used in a gunfight in the movie Bad Boys 2 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, during the scene when they went to visit the Haitians. The camera is at hip level view, bad guys on one side, good guys on the other, and it pans [...]

I didn’t know what to think when I saw that Leslie Nielsen was a trending topic on Twitter. Come to find out, he had passed away. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t even realize that he was already 84 years old. I still wanted to know why he died because he always looked like someone who was in seemingly good health to me, and I saw that it was “complications from pneumonia.” That’s too bad. [...]