Tuesday, December 26, 2017

mother!

By s. Tuesday, December 26, 2017 , , , , , , , 23 Comments
(spoilers!!!)

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

By s. Wednesday, December 20, 2017 , , , , , , , , 23 Comments

(spoilers!!!)

Rian Johnson has really accomplished something incredible in the newest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi. Something different. Something unique. In that he made Star Wars movie that is so boring even if you paid me money I'd not sit through it again. I'm not sure what is more baffling - that a film from the director of Looper is so poorly made or that a Star Wars film is such a poor spectacle.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

The Ten: Best Christmas Movies of All Time

By s. Sunday, December 17, 2017 23 Comments
Nostra is getting everyone in Christmas mood with this lovely relay race.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

10 more great uses of songs in movie/TV series trailers

By s. Wednesday, December 13, 2017 , , 14 Comments
Last week we looked at 10 trailers which used songs to great effect. Since I don't wanna trash The Snowman joylessly in a review of it and would rather just whine about it in RF BUT I also want to have at least some content around here, let's look at 10 more:


Wednesday, December 6, 2017

10 great uses of songs in movie/TV series trailers

By s. Wednesday, December 6, 2017 , , 12 Comments
This is just off the top of my head and by no meants "Greatest of all Time" kind of list because there are just way too many examples like that to choose from. One of the things I love about trailers is when they use the music to great effect (such as the recent Rampage trailer with awesome use of Smashing Pumpkins' song). We're not talking about the epic trailer music or a well known theme from another film used to great effect (Requiem for a Dream music used in The Two Towers trailer), but just a skillful use of song. Here are some of the examples that came to mind: