Life Done Right™

We’re a sucker for a good singing voice, so it makes sense that we would be seduced by director Olivier Dahan’s new movie about Edith Piaf entitled La Vie en Rose. Check out the trailer and judge for yourself whether a trip to the theater beats another night of Katie Couric peddling stale news.
La Vie [...]

Actress Sylvia Kristel, the sensual star of the soft porn classic, Emmanuelle, recently offered up some advice for her fellow actresses: “Don’t Get Old! You’re much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.” Hey, sounds like the plot of a good retirement movie. Famous porn actress fakes her death [...]

Philip Anschutz, who produced The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, just bought the film rights to the children’s book The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John. It’s a story about “a young British orphan is sent to live with her grandfather on a South African wild preserve. Her life is [...]

If you grew up on Alfred Hitchcock movies, then The Other Side of the Street (2004) is your kind of movie, especially if you fancy yourself a part-time detective who likes to spy on your neighbors. Is this what happens when you live alone.
Netflix Synopsis:
Regina (Fernando Montenegro) is 65-years-old and lives alone. Shattering society’s expectations [...]

Pixar Animation Studios just bought a story from Bob Peterson called “Up.” It’s about how a “70-year-old man teams up with a wilderness ranger to fight beasts and villains.” Sounds plausible to us. Pixar better be handing out Depends at the theater door because all that action on screen just might translate into a flood [...]

Working Title Films has bought the film rights to a documentary about the Young@Heart chorus of senior citizens who perform cover songs to rock and pop classics. Pretty cool!

Young@Heart Sings “Fix You” by Coldplay. The dude singing is on oxygen. This rocks, baby!
Young@Heart Sing Schizophrenia by Sonic Youth

If you’ve never heard of the actor Johnny Knoxville, then you might want keep your mind pure and ignore the video above. For those with a so·lip·sis·tic ego, press play. Stand back, though, you don’t want to be hit by over-sized balls.

Watch as an older man sits down at the piano and plays a song that conjures up memories of his former life. Bravo, Adian Gibbons! This was a pleasure to experience.

For those who found that latest installment of Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean a tad boring, check out Joone’s Pirates. It takes a pirate to appreciate the hard work and dedication that go into being out at sea for so long. Who can resist “this electrifying, swashbuckling sex-adventure that takes you on a humorous [...]

Universal Pictures just bought Traveling, a story about a” widower writes a book about grieving that turns him into a phenomenon. Reinvented as a charismatic self-help guru, he falls for a woman at a seminar and is forced to confront the fact that he hasn’t come to grips with his own loss.” Actor Aaron Eckhart [...]

Source: Mad Magazine
Mad Magazine concocted this spoof movie poster of Pirates of the Caribbean, but we love it! Unfortunately there’s still the reality of these incompetent fools plying their pirate trade for more time than I can fathom the U.S. surviving.

While trying to locate the poster art for Michael Moore’s new documentary, Sicko, I discovered an interesting anomaly. If you type in sickomovie.com, you get redirected to Bill O’Reilly’s website! Talk about an unwanted visit to the proctologist. Bend over and say nah!
Sickomovie.com

Jane Fonda used her appearance on Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central show to promote her new movie, Georgia Rule, by showing him some love. Her kiss looks like a pretty good smacker. Take a look and be the judge: does this constitute cheating on your wife?

Let’s face it: after fifty, it’s all a crap shoot in terms of health and longevity. The body seems to have a trajectory that becomes more clear with each passing year. Little clues are revealed here and there, but the big picture doesn’t reveal itself until that tragic moment when suddenly the doctor tells you, [...]

The juggernaut known as Spiderman 3 is almost upon us. In this extended trailer, May Parker, played by Rosemary Harris, coaches Peter Parker on how to propose to Mary Jane Watson. The memory of how her own husband proposed to her, though, suddenly turns painful, since it would have shortly been their 50th wedding anniversary. [...]

There’s something refreshing about a movie director who has no problem expressing his feelings about product placement in movies. This is the bad habit of studios to take cash in exchange for placing a particular brand product in a movie. It’s no mistake that someone is drinking Bud Light or swilling a Diet Coke at [...]

Never, ever give up on your dream. If you want it bad enough, you can still get it, even if you’re 97-years-old like Mae Laborde. Mae now has a career in Hollywood playing herself basically, but what comes through is a lifetime of character. You can’t buy that at your local CVS!
No Fading Star: Actress [...]

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey just agreed to star in a movie called Me Time. The story is about how “a writer is working on a book about his great-great-grandmother, a frontier woman. When his pregnant wife has to go on bed rest, he must care for the house and their other child, and his [...]

Once again it’s time to play Who’s the Adult?™ This video clip probably won’t be up long on Youtube, but it’s probably the best all-time contender for Who’s the Adult? Watch as Lily Tomlin tells director David Russell he doesn’t know what he’s doing on the movie set. Then watch as Russell trashes the set [...]

Nice to see Andy Griffith scoring some work in the new movie, Waitress, starring Keri Russell of Felicity fame. If you like pie, the kind you eat, then this is your movie. The names of the pies are devilishly whipped up and served with a desperate eye on the cherry prize of love.
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