http://www.archcampbell.com/blog What's new with Arch Campbell! Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:43:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Robert Rodriguez created a trailer for Quentin Tarrantino's "Grindhouse" that turned into one of the best things in that movie.  So now comes the full blown project---over the top, outrageous and great fun.  A parody of exploitation movies, starring Danny Trejo as a bad guy with a big knife plotting revenge against crooked ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=658 Heads turn when George Clooney makes a movie but I have a feeling his fans will leave disappointed after viewing his latest.  "The American" looks like the kind of foreign film that played art houses in the early 1960's.  The characters don't say much and do a lot of brooding ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=657 Another in a long line of cheap movies hoping to exploit the "Blair Witch" success.  Shot as a documentary, it follows a Louisiana Minister/Exorcist as he explains the tricks of his exorcism trade.  Except, of course, this time the demons are real.  Ashley Bell plays the possessed girl---she's no Linda ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=656 Bow Wow polishes his likable image in this urban comedy. He plays a kid living with his grandmother in the projects who wins the lottery and learns a lesson about the value of true friends and being true to yourself. Brandon T. jackson (of "Percy jackson and the ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=655 Many have looked forward to Julia Robert's take on the popular memoir from 2006---Eat Pray Love.  Julia plays writer Elizabeth Gilbert who took a year to find herself after her divorce.  Asin the book, Julia travels to Italy, India, and Bali.  In Italy she eats, in India she prays, in ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=654 Sly Stallone assembles a group of mercenaries to take out a South American dictator---but find out there's an even bigger game afoot.  Arnold Schwartznegger actually makes an appearance as does Bruce Willis.  Sly's men include Dolph Lundgrin, Jet Li, Jason Straithorn and Mickey Rourke.  Eric Roberts shows up as the ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=653 These days when Robert Duvall makes a movie it deserves your attention.  Duvall plays a country hermit who comes to town with the cash to pay for his funeral, which he plans to attention while stiil alive.  Director Aaron Schneider says this story really took place in the rural south in ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=652 The very likeable Michael Cera stars in this hilarious conversion of a graphic novel.  As Scott Pilgrim, Michael meets the love of his life played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  She changes her hair color with her moods and the color stays somewhere between purple and blue.  She likes Scott but in order to ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=651 They call Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg "The Other Guys"---they're the non star police officers working in bureaucratic silence in a high octane New York city police department.  Ferrell and Wahlberg lampoon every cliche of the mis matched buddy cop movie and mine comedy gold in the process.  They stumble onto ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=650 Imported from France where it is one of the year's most popular films, "The Concert" opens in Moscow where we meet the janitor of the Bolshoi orchestra and learn he his story.  Once a great conductor, the state banished him and his orchestra for the crime of using Jewish musicians. "The Concert" ... http://www.archcampbell.com/blog/?p=649