Hello, everyone. Had to restrict access to this blog since mid-August for the following reasons:
1. The race for the MLS Cup was heating up, with the Sounders seriously contending for it - and I had to cover the games in an armchair photojournalist capacity.
2. The focus on the Sounders progress (and their eventual shortfall) kept me from getting any film or film music reviews done. It was all Soccer, all the time since mid-August. The movies and movie music fell by the wayside.
3. I made the decision to extract all soccer, World Cup 2014, and Sounders-related photos and news coverage and transfer them to a separate blog with restricted access for copyright reasons. I intend to use the photos for several photojournalism projects and have to minimize access to them at this stage. In any case, keeping soccer and movies separate is, in the end, a good idea because not all movie fans are soccer fans. Although I don't understand why. Soccer is just as exhilarating, breathtaking, and moving as the movies... So, while the restricted blog will focus on World Cup, MLS, and general soccer photojournalism, this blog will return its focus on movies and movie music reviews...
All that by way of saying that the movie reviews will be back online soon. I am busy this weekend with work related to the MLS Final Battle between the Houston Dynamos and LA Galaxy down in Los Angeles, but I will try to post a movie review schedule before I get too busy with soccer.
With the MLS season winding to a close, the only Sounders activity to monitor and photograph will be the CONCACAF race - before the 2012 MLS season begins again early next year. When my boys - and me - will be busy once more. For now, it's movie and movie music reviews left and right.
It's great to be back. Thanks for everyone's patience and understanding. In the meantime, all our previous 378 movie/movie music reviews are here intact. Enjoy them - and get ready for the many new ones to come...
Also, please note that in recent months, many of the YouTube trailers that I linked to our reviews have been deleted by YouTube's militia because the folks who posted them on YouTube weren't supposed to. With the current effort to clean up YouTube, you will likely see more and more trailers disappear. Oh, well... we roll with the punches right?
One last thing: as with all blogs that have some degree of following and popularity, other sites have tried to embed links in some of our reviews. I don't have the time to constantly weed through to find them, so I will say this and please take note: the only links I place myself in this blog are to IMDB.com, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon, and Empire Magazine. All other links are ones I do not endorse. So if you see a hyperlinked word in one of the reviews, do not click on it. It could take you to a dating site or something.
Please expect the movie and movie music review schedule to post when I get back very early on Monday... For now, here is a sneak peek at some of the movies we will be reviewing, old, new-ish, and brand new:
Whew! That's our line-up for the Holiday Season. Have a great weekend. Wherever you spend it and whatever you do, in the words of singer Alex Lloyd from his song on IMAGINE ME AND YOU's soundtrack and trailer, make it "AMAZING!"
Ciao ciao... Fasten you seatbelts again...
