Nehring The Edge: THE CARNIVAL OF CINEMA – EPISODE XIX movie reviews

Welcome to the Carnival of Cinema, the best place for the latest in movie reviews, industry news and advice. I want to thank Annie Frisbie and the folks over at ZOOM-IN ONLINE for managing the carnival last week. Outstanding job.

Let’s gets right to it.

Since we’re already talking about her, we will begin this week with Annie Frisbie

Annie has a great review of Nicholas Cage’s latest film Ghost Rider. The title of the review is worth the visit to ZOOM-IN ONLINE.

Ghost Rider is full of dumb dialog, motorcycles, fire and screaming. Sounds like a perfect “Guy Movie”. Let’s dig into the goods this week and start with the other Guy Movies that have hit my desk.

Second in line this week is Mike Blitz and his review of Conan the Barbarian. Head over to KABOOM REVIEW to read more.

Mr. Blitz ends his post with a couple fun facts about the stunt work in Conan. The stunts probably would have been better in Conan if they would have had hired Conan for the gig.

Conan Stevens of CONAN STEVENS WORLDS BIGGEST ACTION HERO? lives up to the name of his blog and provides a short demo tape of a fight sequence for the film Bangkok Adrenaline.

Keeping with the butt kicking, let’s look to H. A. Calles review of Martin Scorsese’s violent film The Departed. The only thing more plentiful than spilled blood in the movie are the swear words. Calles has more over at ILLUSTRATED MOVIE REVIEW BLOG.

The Departed isn’t the only Irish gangster film ever made. State of Grace, from seventeen years ago is also about these guys. Click over to MOVIEFIENDS:DVDS,MUSIC VIDEOS,NEWFILMS&YOUTUBE and see what PJ has to say. Maybe you’ll want to rent that one and have a double-feature.

More manly man stuff…

The Man from Laramie is a classic Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart. Gracchi of WESTMINSTER WISDOM has a thorough dissection of the film.

You can have a Guy Movie discussion without Bruce.

I’ll let DARKMATTERS - THE MIND OF MATT’s Matt Adcock speak for himself. This is his post description from his carnival submission form: “Getting my white vest out already in anticipation of LIVE FREE or DIE HARD... Photos and new trailer link up at Darkmatters!! Yiipee-Kiay-Motherf888888s”

That about sums it up.

Over at DEAR CINEMA, Moveye has a review of the Bollywood film Eklavya: The Royal Guard. While not really being a Guy Movie per se, it still has a guy in a movie and it so happens this guy is a royal guard. From the sounds of it, I wouldn’t expect needless gas explosions and automatic gunfire. Then again the guy probably has a sword, so maybe somebody gets it after all.

Okay, lets put down the flame throwers, grenades, and high powered rifles and let the kiddy movies in here.

Michelle Mitchell joins the carnival this week with a brutally honest review of Happy Feet. It appears Happy Feet stinks like it stepped in something. Run over to SCRIBBIT for more.

Another one for the kids is Bridge to Terabithia. The Reviewer has seen the movie and has the review. You’ll have to click over to THE REVIEWER to see said review however.

Bridging the gap between Guy Movies and flicks for the kids is Eddie Murphy who has done both (48 Hours and Shrek).

The thing about Murphy is that you never know who he’s going to be next. Morgen Jahnke has a list over at SENSELIST of the Six movies in which Eddie Murphy plays more than one character.

Since we’re kinda-sorta on the subject of identity issues, go take a look to EVERYONE NEEDS THERAPY'S Linda Freedman’s (TherapyDoc) post on Spanlish. She argues that this film is a solid demonstration of the real cost of assimilation. She also tosses in some kind words for her son to boot.

If you want to drop your identity issues and hop on the compulsive train answer Kim’s question “How often does the number 23 appear in YOUR life?” This question drives Jim Carrey nuts in the upcoming film The Number 23. Kim gives her list over at BLOGFABULOUS.

Compulsive behavior, problems with differentiation and individuation, nymphomania, whatever your mental problem is, I know one thing – don’t let Samuel L. Jackson get wind of it. He’s serious nuts and will tie you up to a radiator.

Well, he won’t but his character Lazarus will.

We have two posts this week about the anticipated film Black Snake Moan which will be released on March 2nd.

First, we have Patrick Rijnders of SCRIBBLEKING and an interview with the film’s composer Scott Bomar. This is a great insight into the thinking and process of a film composer.

Second, there is “It's Hard Out Here For A Nymph” by. Lisa Vandever from her site CINEKINKSTER. Lisa has video and a quiz linked on her post as well.

With our final film review of the week, Paul McElligott has another dead on review on CELLULOID HEROES. This week Paul offers his take on the film Thank you For Smoking.

Stuck for a good idea? Is writer’s block killing your latest script? Having trouble coming up with an interesting look for your film? Jason Hooker of DIGITIAL FILMCREW has electronic inspiration waiting for you. Go to his site and learn more about his new Flicker site meant to get those creative juices flowing.

To bring things to a close this week RachelAPP has come up with some ideas on how the film industry, along with the music and TV industries, could do a few things to reduce the need for illegal downloading, and turn it to their advantage when they can't fight it. Run over to FOOD FOR YOUR MIND DON'T LET IT DIE! To get the lowdown on those low down downloaders.

…and CUT!…and PRINT!

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