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Hurricane Sandy Relief

Well, it’s Election Day and thank goodness – I don’t think I can take any more ads, debates, or Facebook posts. While many people are focused on the election, much of the country’s focus is still on Hurricane Sandy’s destruction on the east coast and providing relief to those in need. While the physical storm is over, the real problems still exist and will for months, if not years to come. Some people are having trouble getting gas, some are still without electricity, many are homeless, and now that section of the country is facing a nor’easter, which could bring … Continue reading →

David Carradine Dead at 72

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Yesterday, actor David Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Thailand where he had been filming a new movie titled Stretch. Circumstances of his death remain unknown. First, it was published that the Bangkok police believed he had committed suicide, since he was found hanging from a nylon rope in the hotel room, but Carradine’s co-manager Tiffany Smith says, “I can tell you 100 percent that he would have never committed suicide.” There was no forced sign of entry into the room, yet Carradine’s openness about past use of drugs and alcohol as well as thoughts of suicide … Continue reading →

Joaquin Phoenix Retiring from Acting While Favreau and Downey Kick It into High Gear

Baseball players may retire while still in their thirties, especially if they have injuries. Olympic athletes often retire in their thirties. But, an actor retiring at 34? It appears that would be so in the case of Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin, who I loved in films such as Buffalo Soldiers, The Village, Gladiator, and Walk the Line (the last two for which he received Academy Award nominations), attended a benefit for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall camps last Monday and dropped this shocking announcement on the media. He told Extra’s Jerry Penacoli “I want to take this opportunity…to give you … Continue reading →

Joaquin Phoenix Retires and “Melrose Place” Rides Again

It may have sounded like an April Fool’s joke, but the bomb actor Joaquin Phoenix dropped at a Paul Newman tribute earlier this week was anything but funny. The 34-year-old actor’s stunning announcement: He’s retiring from acting. “I’m not doing films anymore,” the two-time Oscar nominee told a shocked reporter from TV’s “Extra.” According to Phoenix, he’s leaving the big screen behind to concentrate on his music career. While he refused to elaborate on his plans, the actor did reveal that he is currently working on a record for the British band The Charlatans and has been contemplating a move … Continue reading →

Low Budget Halloween Flicks that Hit Big

I tired of reading about movies that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make then don’t even break even at the box office. They usually feature some big name actor or actress that gets at least $15 to $20 million for the film. Yet, there are four low budget horror flicks that did the opposite. All four of the films I am going to talk about in this blog were filmed for less than a million total – $837,000 to be exact. Yet, the worldwide take has been more than $300 million combined for these films and that doesn’t … Continue reading →

Josh Brolin’s Brawl

In case you have not heard, there was a fight at the Stray Cat Club in Shreveport, LA last Saturday. Now, this might not be of much importance other than it involved actor Josh Brolin. Brolin has been in Shreveport for the last couple of months filming the latest Oliver Stone film W. If you cannot guess whom that one is about, it is about President George W. Bush, with Brolin playing the current president. Rumors say that word got out that Brolin, co-star Jeffrey Wright (who plays Colin Powell in the film), and five others from the film crew … Continue reading →

Who’s Your Favorite Movie Villain? Part Three

Continuing with the movie villain thread, another one of my personal favorites was Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus from Gladiator. In love with his own sister and having killed his father to obtain his title, he wanted to squelch Russell Crowe’s character Maximus so he could be in complete control of Rome. Joaquin definitely deserved his Oscar nod for this villainous performance (and he looked good while pulling it off!). Not all the villains listed on Entertainment Weekly’s top 50 were human. There were four animated villains – Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Shere Khan from The … Continue reading →