Trilogy Week #30 - War Is Hell

Happy Memorial Day everybody! Today's the day we remember the ones who have lost their lives defending our country. So here's three movies about war, from three different wars.

Trilogy Week #29 - Kid Adventures

Summer's just around the corner, and school is almost over, and this is around the time I would start to get antsy thinking about all the cool things I wanted to do that summer as a kid. Every kid fantasizes about going on an adventure. Even if it is something very small, like going into a abandoned house or, jumping over someones fence. Nothing big, but exciting for young adolescence. I would've given my left nut to go on an adventure like the ones in these movies, as dangerous as some of them are. 


Also, you might be thinking "hey, wait a minute! Why didn't you add the Goonies? don't worry, that will be coming out in a later post.

Trilogy Week #28 - Women in Sports

I know today is Mother's Day, and these three movies have nothing to do with Mother's Day, but I couldn't find some Mother's Day movies that I wanted to use, so instead I'm featuring women in sports movies. My correlation between the two is strength. If you are a good mother, I believe you are a good mother because you are a strong women. And women in sports are strong women. So let's celebrate strong women in sports, which a lot of them were moms too, so yeah. Another thing is that I didn't notice until I posted this was that all three of these films were directed by actors. Well blah blah blah, Happy Mother's Day.

Trilogy Week #27 - Life After Death

How will you die? Because you will. Everyone will die! So because of that, everyone has thought about the afterlife, if there is one. A question that has been asked since the beginning of our existence. Whether it's a world of nothingness, or a world in the clouds, there are many stories about the world beyond our comprehension. These three film makers have some great original ideas about the next life, if maybe a little ridiculous, they are very entertaining about the life we life, and the way we perceive the environment around us.

Top Five Beastie Boys songs

The Mighty MCA is gone.

One-third of the Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch (47), aka MCA, died earlier today. Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and had been undergoing treatments on and off for three years -- he was notably missing when the Beasties were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.The Jewish b-boys survived the fall of MTV and thrived through gangsta rap and grunge. They began as joke rappers -- fun but nobody took them seriously. They became icons, giants of the genre who never stopped making great jams.


On their first proper album in seven years, last year's “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,” the unlikely elder statesmen showed their age (they reference Crocs not Adidas and appropriate lyrics from “Subterranean Homesick Blues”). But they didn't grow up. Like every Beastie's landmark, the album sounds like a coke-and-Pop-Rocks-fueled house party hosted by Afrika Bambaataa, Lenny Bruce, Optimus Prime and the Ramones.Yauch's treatments repeatably put off the release of "Hot Sauce" and the band hadn't played live since the summer of 2009. Clearly, he was struggling, but it's still a shock the health food junkie, Buddhist and optimist couldn't beat the illness.If you have a copy of "Paul's Boutique," I suggest spinning it now. If you don't, go out and get the landmark album -- it's a face-melting mess of beats, flow and samples (105 songs were sampled on the album, 24 on the last track alone). By Jed Gottlieb


I first discovered the Beastie Boys when I was in high school. And their sound has stuck with me ever since. What I really admired about the Beastie Boys is they were all three equal parts of the band. There was no front man, they "were" the front men.  Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA, the three of them were equal collaborators, and one did not over-shine the other. I don't think their will ever be a Hip Hop group that will ever as significant as the Beastie Boys were in the history of american pop culture, and music.  


So here as tribute to MCA and his mourning comrades, are my top 5 favorite Beastie Boys songs.

Trilogy Week #26 Martin, Bob, and Joe

You can't go wrong when you mix Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci in a movie together. The end result is cinema gold. You've got Scorsese's great camera work and story telling, De Niro's cool swaggering demeanor, and Pesci's constant swearing, your guaranted for a exciting time. Also If you're familiar with these movies, another actor that's in all three of these films is Frank Vincent, I didn't add him to this list because you don't know who that is. And..... all three of these films are based on actual events. If you haven't seen these movies already, go out and watch them soon before Joe Pesci stabs you in the neck with a ball point pen.

Top 10 Favorite Chuck Jones Cartoons

Chuck Jones is a legend in the history of animation. As a kid I loved to watch cartoons, especially the Looney Tunes. And I always had my favorite ones, but it wasn't until years later that I found out the majority of favorites were all directed by the same guy. How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Roadrunner and Coyote, Rikki Tikki Tavi, What's Opera Doc? etc., all done by Chuck Jones. His work has great humor, brilliant expressions, and spot-on timing, and I love his constant breaking of the fourth wall. His work has been a great inspiration for me, and here are ten examples of why he's known as the master of the extremes and the in-betweens.

Trilogy Week #25 Desolate Earth

Well, Earth Day is almost over, but we should continue to remember how are impact on the environment can effect the earth. So here's three movie that show what our involvment could do to the earth. Do something! Or I will eat you!

Trilogy Week #24 - Ridiculous Pro Sport Movies

We all have memories of our favorite sport moments. Be it football, baseball, basketball, soccer, etc. And we've seen the movies that follow these favorite sports. But what about the unknown pro sports. Well these three film makers decided to shed some light on some obscure sports, in these three movies. Maybe the popularity of these films would raise some awareness, and bring some new fans to these sports. Well they didn't, so now all we have left are the faded memories of these stupid pro sports left to laugh at.

Trilogy Week #23 - Rabbit Movies

Happy Easter everybody. I hope you all got a lot of egg shaped candies. To all the parents out there you're probably sick of watching "HOP" all day long so here are three movies that don't have anything to do with Easter but, they do have rabbits in them. So tell the kiddies that they are going to watch these movies, or you will take their colored eggs away.