One list: The English Patient How Green Was My Valley American Beauty Another list: Raiders of the Lost Ark Casino The Shawshank Redemption Do you spot the difference? The first list are movies were Oscar winners for best picture, the second list are freaking awesome. The Academy Awards were last week, and there’s a lot [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Movies'
The Academy Awards, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blue People
March 13th, 2010 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies, Site Update
Tags: Oscars Academy Awards
Never Mind the Sandra Bullocks
November 10th, 2009 by Mark · No Comments · Movies
I spent the last few days recovering from an illness, which translates into watching a lot of football and movies. What made it less relaxing than most lazy weekends is that, as part of my job here with Cinekin, I am forced to watch movies I haven’t seen before. If I had my druthers, I’d [...]
Tags: cinekin·movie·movie date·movie dating·Movie Nights·Movie Nights by Cinekin·Movies·Online Dating·online matchmaking·Sandra-Bullock Sick·Taste·Taste Based·Taste Profile
Where the Wild Things Allegedly Are
November 3rd, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
I am not going to watch Where the Wild Things Are. I have heard wonderful things about it; I heard that it’s an awesome movie. To me, that is irrelevant. Where the Wild Things Are is one of my favorite children’s books, and I have no desire to see it in another medium. This no [...]
Tags: blockbusters·cinekin·jim carey·maurice sendak·mike meyers·movie dating·Movie Nights·Movies·Online Dating·remakes childhood·Taste·Taste Based·Taste Profile·where the wild things are
The Nine Worst SNL Movies; or, Time I Wish I Could Have Back
October 26th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
I love Saturday Night Live. I think the last election, with Obama and McCain and Palin and Biden, showed just how relevant SNL can be. I think “D*** in a Box” is one of the funniest things I’ve seen this decade. I also acknowledge how often they swing and miss. I was watching the Saturday [...]
Tags: cinekin·movie dating·Movie Nights·Movies·Online Dating·SNL worst·Taste·Taste Based·Taste Profile
Chicago – We will survive!
October 4th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies, Site Update
Here at the Cinekin team, we were split about Chicago bidding on the Olympics. Some wanted Rio, Some wanted Chicago, and one guy wanted Ulan Bataar. Stupid programmers – keep up on current events, for Pete’s sake. Anyway, I am happy for Rio, and I’m proud of the way Chicago and Chicagoans presented the city [...]
Tags: chicago·cinekin·comics·movie·Movie Nights·Movie Nights by Cinekin·Movies·olympics
Everything Old is New
July 9th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
Hollywood is out of ideas. See, e.g., here, here, and here,. How many more movie remakes of bad 1970′s and 1980′s TV shows can we stand? How many cartoons must be redone in CGI before we stop throwing money at them? The love of irony that partially defines Generations X and Y are causing the [...]
Tags: Anne Rice·Batman·Blade Runner·Brady Brunch·Dark Knight·Garfield·Indiana Jones·Interview with the Vampire·Lestat·Lord of the Rings·movie·Movies·Psycho·remakes·Scooby Doo·Star Trek·Star Wars
We’ll Miss You, Grasshopper!
June 4th, 2009 by Cinekin · No Comments · Movies, Uncategorized
Hollywood was shocked this morning, when news of David Carradine’s suicide in a Bangkok hotel room began to spread. Known for his mesmerizing role as Kwai Chang Caine, affectionately dubbed “Grasshopper” in Kung Fu , and more recently, as the iconic Bill in Tarrantino’s 2 volume Kill Bill saga, Carradine will be missed by family, friends, and movie lovers everywhere. [...]
Tags: david carradine·death·kill bill·Kung Fu·news
‘Movie Nights by Cinekin’ is LIVE!
April 8th, 2009 by Cinekin · 1 Comment · Movies, Site Update
Hooray! I’m terribly, fantastically excited to announce that our sparkling new, super happy fun feature: Movie Nights by Cinekin is live! What is Movie Nights by Cinekin, you ask? Movie Nights by Cinekin is the ONLY feature in our online universe that offers movie recommendations for whole groups of friends! That’s right – just invite [...]
Tags: cinekin·cinekin buddies·cinekin buddy·friends·groups·movie·Movie Nights·Movie Nights by Cinekin·Movies
Lindsey Lohan’s New Movie Heads Straight to Cable.
March 26th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
Apparently, Lindsey Lohan has a new movie out. It’s titled Labor Pains, but perhaps a more fitting title should be “I spend more time on the tabloids than actually working.” This is not meant as a knock against Lohan, the actor. In the few movies in which I’ve seen her (the best of which was [...]
Tags: Labor·Labor Pains·Lindsey Lohan·Lohan·Mean Girls·pregnancy
Movie stars who were awesome in exactly one awesome movie and no more.
March 12th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
This is a list of people who are stars, for some reason, despite the fact that there is only one movie to their credit that did not suck donkeys. Orlando Bloom – The Fellowship of the Ring We can lump the other two LOTR movies in with this one, but Fellowship was the only one [...]
Tags: Adam Sandler·Angelina Jolie·Charlie Sheen·Dunst·Fellowship·Ferris Bueller·Ghostbusters·Happy Gilmore·Iron Man·LOTR·Mjor League·Morranis·Office Spacem Livingston·Orlando Bloom·Rourke·Spiderman·The Good Shephard·The Royal Tenenbaums·Tom Cruise·Top Gun·Wrestler
