Saturday, November 19, 2011

Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

"You gotta fight! For your right! To paaaaaaaaaarrrrrty!"

If you were an 80's child, this chant by the Beastie Boys would have been put on blast on your radio or cassette player. To commemorate the song's impact 25 years later, member Adam Yauch aka MCA wrote and directed a short called Fight For Your Right (Revisited).

Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride star as the hard-partying trio in Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA.   Yauch enlists many of today's most talented actors and actresses to balance out the rest of the cast, especially Susan Sarandon, Ted Danson, Steve Buscemi, Rashida Jones and Rainn Wilson.

The film is based mostly on the travels that the Beastie Boys faced after the Fight For Your Right music video, including breaking into a liquor store, taking acid with groupies and getting into a hilarious breakdancing competition with their future selves (Will Farrell, John C. Reilly and Jack Black).

☆☆☆

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Snatch

In 2000, Director Guy Ritchie brought a brilliant follow up to his critically acclaimed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  With Snatch, Ritchie exposes the hip, cool and violent view of London's gangster underground.  The movie is exceptional starting with the cast of larger than life characters in Jason Statham as an unlicensed boxing promoter,  Benicio Del Toro as jewel-thief Franky Four Fingers, Vinnie Jones as the legendary street assasin and Brad Pitt as the hilarious marble-mouthed boxer. The script is well written and brings Ritchie's characteristic fast-paced, yet twisting storylines. Not only was it considered "the coolest movie of the year" by Premiere Magazine, it is also a must see.

☆☆☆☆

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Epic Movie Posters

These are some of the most unique movie posters.  Each of them has a very different design to catch the viewer's attention.