Useful Links: MyMovies Blog: July 2008

FRIDAY, 18th July 2008
MyMovies.Net Update
Hey all you film loving, movie worshipping readers out there. I come before you a boy who has just completed the trials and tribulations that a week's work experience with the MyMovies team brings. . . . and yet they're still letting me loose on their blog, a horrible mistake? I can tell you it differed hugely from your typical monotonous week that most kids my age endure as a matter of necessity; I would gladly work here all summer given the chance, madness? I can tell you right now it was an experience I shall never forget, whether that’s for the right reasons or not I have yet to decide!

And now onto more pressing movie related matters:

The week started with the general yet surprising hub bub of "Donkey Punch" and before all you sado-masochists out there get a bit too excited it's the title of choice for director Olly Blackburn's latest contribution to the world of film. The interview MyMovies had with the cast was 'different' to say the least with more surreal moments than you can shake a stick at!

In other films news we see the comical capers of "Wall-E" hitting our screen, this tin man will bring that warm fuzzy feeling to you that some films just can't deliver, truly a film not to miss.

This week the much-anticipated Batman- "The Dark Knight" will be released. This long awaited film is set not to disappoint with Christian Bale leading Batman into the unknown, or more specifically into the clutches of notorious Joker (Heath Ledger). Heath contributes that hair-raising menace the part so desperately needed, has batman met his match!

All in all I can say that here at MyMovies.Net they really do everything in there power to try to satiate your thirst for film knowledge, entertaining you at every corner, from hilarious anecdotes to fully fledged interviews and yeah in the process they seem to have a good time too. I myself have had a great experience, learnt allot about the industry and managed to look at some truly kick-ass movies and for a teen boy what more can you really ask for.

FRIDAY, 11th July 2008
MyMovies.Net Update
Hey there all you crazy, sexy film lovers. I know, I know - like a moth drawn to the ever-burning flame you have been compelled towards my Blog for another week. Either that or some new devilry has bewitched you into this decision! Let's face it...who in their right mind would sacrifice 10 minutes out of their day to read my particular brand of brain sneezes?!

Well, this week I'll keep things nice and short (there onle blessing I suppose!). Off of the back of "Mamma Mia's" success, bashing "Hancock" into submission in the UK Box Office Chart, I thought I would bestow upon thee this little interview with director Phyllida Lloyd and producer Judy Cramer. This formidabble twosome explained just what it was like working with a cast full of newcomers - including the late bloomer Meryl Streep - here showing an uncanny vocal knack when it comes to those ABBA tunes!

If Meryl Streep giving it tons wasn't enough we've got Jackie Chan and Jet Li throwing elbows all over the shop! These two titans of chop-socky have teamed up for the very first time in their long and illustrious careers to give us "The Forbidden Kingdom". A nice little distraction this if I do say so myself. Here, just for you, is a little behind the scene look at the making of this kung-fu opus.

This week sees one of the summer's most highly-anticipated releases finally hitting up our screens. And for once I'm not talking about the Caped Crusader and that menacing Joker fella. Pixar's latest bout of cuteness - "WALL-E" is almost upon us and to celebrate the little bot's coming here are a few viral thingys demonstrating the awe and wonder of the confused compactor!

Well, that's it from me for at least a week or two! I'm off on my hols (and to watch "The Dark Knight" over and over again). But fear not my movie brethren for I shall return! Until then - here's a little TV Spot for that Dark Avenger dude...

FRIDAY, 4th July 2008
MyMovies.Net Update
Hahahaha! It looks like I've ensnared you yet again! Well, that will learn ya! The Interweb is full of troublesome foibles and one such chink in the information super highway's armour is no doubt this little Blog of movie geekiness. Yes, we're all about the film frolics here so let's get down to some movie action...

First up, and hitting up our screens like a drunken, bullet-proof, avenger is the err drunken bullet-poof anvenger that is "Hancock". Will Smith, AKA the Fresh Prince, is giving it tons in this cocophony of bombast and gentler character moments. It's another sterling effort from Smith, much like his turn in "I Am Legend", but, like that film too, things seem to take a turn for the worse at the mid point and suddenly we're stuck in canon-fodder popcorn fare. Whatever you do though don't repeat such sentiment to director Peter Berg who is in fact madder than a March Hare and twice as dangerous! Here he is now doing a bang up job of initimidating me to an inch of my life!!!

So from the rough to the angelically smooth now as we beat a hasty retreat from Mr. Berg and catch up with Lucy Liu who this week is lighting up our screens as a kung fu-fighting Viper in the CG 'toon "Kung Fu Panda". A little departure for the former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ("Kill Bill"), but it looks as if Liu is keeping up her snake fetish under the cover of this family friendly effort.

If a boozed up Fresh Prince doesn't quite do it for you, and a "Kung Fu Panda" seems a little too cutesy for your tastes, then there's always a bunch of fog-shrouded beasties to contend with in "The Mist". Frank Darabont returns to the Stephen King fold here and this time ventures into unseen horror waters with a film that delivers on just about every level! As this unnerving clip attests.

Well, I'm off to interrogate some more of Hollywood's finest but before I go I shall leave you with another new look at this month's eagerly awaited "The Dark Knight". I actually couldn't be more excited this film if I tried! The countdown begins now!