Tuesday, September 25, 2012

MILF Rendezvous: Judge Dredd

With Karl Urban donning the mantle of judge, jury and executioner in today’s highest profile release, was there any other choice for a vault selection? Absolutely. Plenty of alternatives, but as Stallone would decree, “I AM THE LAW!” and what I say goes.
In the third millennium, the Earth has become a barren desert where humanity can find no purchase, save for refuges like Mega-City One. An elite force known as the Judges were created to police the huddled and violent masses, but Judge Griffin (Jürgen Prochnow) urges the rest of the council to impose stricter codes and employ more Judges to suppress the escalating crime. Chief Justice Fargo (Max von Sydow) is more optimistic thanks to exemplary Judges like Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) who keep the peace and are faithful to the law. Fargo’s faith is shattered when Dredd is convicted of the murders of reporter Vartis Hammond (Mitch Ryan) and his wife. When the opportunity to clear his name surfaces, Dredd, though stripped of his Lawgiver gun and rank, returns to Mega-City One to exact justice.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

MMM: Brenda Lee's Coming On Strong

Morning stargazers! Personal commitments kept me from choosing a mood music last week, but I couldn't let a second week start off without a little tunage.

This is one of those songs that is no doubt being played on a rock station somewhere in the world at any given moment of the day. I've never really given much thought to the title or lyrics. It wasn't until today that I read along with the song and I now understand it's essentially a song about a booty call, and a telepathic one at that! The lyrics never concerned me nearly as much as the kickass tempo and all around great rhythms this Dutch band crafted. If you find yourself on the road, I highly recommend you queue this up to amp your drive. By queue this up I mean just the song, not the video... not looking to cause an accident!

Golden Earring - Radar Love

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

MILF Rendezvous: The Eiger Sanction

Week three of the vault’s In Memorium series focuses on the work of producer Richard D. Zanuck who passed away two months ago. Zanuck is responsible for such classics as Jaws and Driving Miss Daisy. His more recent memorable films include Road to Perdition, Big Fish, and Sweeney Todd. His career featured many movies to choose from, but when I saw he was executive producer on one of the few Clint Eastwood films I’d never seen, I had the perfect selection.

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a man of many talents; art professor, collector of black market masterpieces, accomplished mountaineer, and retired assassin. Hemlock is content lecturing to lascivious young coeds, but his old employer C2, a secret government agency headed by Mr. Dragon (Thayer David), insists he return for two more sanctions, or hits. Dragon convinces Hemlock to return by first leveraging his illegal art collection then by playing on his sympathies for a fellow assassin and close friend. For his second hit, the “Eiger Sanction,” Hemlock must train with his old buddy Ben Bowman (George Kennedy). Bowman is also the ground man for the impending north face Eiger climb. Replacing the team’s American climber, Hemlock joins three other mountaineers, Freytag (Reiner Schöne), Meyer (Michael Grimm), and Montaigne (Jean-Pierre Bernard), any one of which could be the killer he seeks.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

MILF Rendezvous: Resident Evil

Today marks the release of the thirty-seventh installment of the Resident Evil film series. I kid. The latest, Resident Evil: Retribution, is only the fifth of the video-game-adapted-into-surprisingly-successful franchise. Being as I’m in the minority of cinephiles who, like a moth to a flame,  inexplicably returns to be burned by the latest, increasingly subpar chapter, I am certainly qualified to critique the original that has infected my judgement.


When a thief steals the experimental T-virus and purposefully contaminates an underground genetic research facility known as the Hive, its computer-controlled security system, the Red Queen (Michaela Dicker), initiates lock-down. Commandos, led by One (Colin Salmon), infiltrate the Hive’s emergency entrance where they apprehend a local cop, Matt (Eric Mabius), and unsuccessfully attempt a sitrep with the Hive’s undercover security agents, a young woman (Milla Jovovich) and her “husband”, Spence (James Purefoy), who suffer from short-term memory loss as part of the lock-down measures. Together, they infiltrate the Hive to discover what activated the security measures, but only one seems prepared for the repercussions and she needs her memory back first.

Rendezvous...

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

MILF Rendezvous: Sleepless in Seattle

Tuesdays in September here in the vault have been designated as an In Memorium series featuring celebrities lost in 2012. Today I’d like to shine a light on writer, producer, director Nora Ephron by covering her highest-grossing feature.

On Christmas Eve, a year and a half after losing his mother to cancer, Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) calls up a national talk radio program in search of a new wife for his despondent father, Sam (Tom Hanks). The heartbreaking story told by Sam, dubbed Sleepless in Seattle by the host, infatuates hundreds of impassioned women across the country, including recently engaged Baltimore reporter, Annie Reed (Meg Ryan). Annie’s deeply in love with her delicate beau Walter (Bill Pullman), but finds herself drawn, as if by magic, to this somber man she’s never met.

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Monday, September 10, 2012

MMM: Say It Ain't So

It's Monday. I'm tired. No upcoming holidays to look forward to. Say it ain't so.

Weezer - Say It Ain't So

Sure, the song isn't really about my sentiment, but whatever works.

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

MILF Rendezvous: Shadowboxer

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