Harry Potter - Half Blood Prince - The Newest Trailer

Wether you are a Harry Potter freak, like me, or just a casual fan, the new film Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince shall be an event that could be the tent pole of the summer. I love this new trailer that was just released upon the world.


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The New Sherlock Holmes - Robert Downey Jr.

The Sherlock Holmes Franchise Reborn?.. It looks like it!!!

As a little boy I can remember seeing the Spielberg inspired version called Young Sherlock Holmes and immediately falling in love with the story and character. I even loved the cupcake hallucination scene when Watson is attacked by vengeful pastries, truly a cinematic event that will never be equaled.
So when I found out that they were making a Sherlock Holmes film and that it would be starring Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, I immediately took notice. Here is the trailer. Tell me what you think in the comments.
El Golden Stallion the Pubfilms.com beast of burden out!

So Awful, that it is actually Hilarious!

Once upon a time, a good friend of mine told me about this gem, this pearl of cinema called SHE HULK. A no budget movie that was made in Utah. I was finally able to track it down and find it!
The actors and the Director take it so seriously that it turns what was meant to be a white knuckle action movie, into one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. I especially like the blood transfusion with common kitchen appliances. Enjoy!

Star Trek - Complete Failure? or Amazing Success?

TO GEEK OR NOT TO GEEK.....
So where do you fall on the geek scale if you go to Star trek on opening night? Are you in the upper percentile or, because it has be taken in a new direction by J.J. Abrams you get a bit of slack?..... No you are right, going on opening night is like being knighted into the holy order of geekdom. Yes, I am now Sir Golden Stallion Duke of Dork. But, I am pleased to announce that my coming out of the nerd closet has not been for naught...why, you ask? Because Star Trek kicked Asteroids!
The movie starts at the very beginning of it all, before James Kirk is born and before Spock even knows how to do the Vulcan grip. We learn about Kirk's father, and what he does to become renowned throughout the Star Fleet. We also get a sense of Spock's upbringing and what it was like to be a child of two worlds. Not only does this add weight to their characters, but it also sets up the interesting twist in the movie that I wont divulge in this write up.
The movie starts with a full fledged battle between a Starship from the federation and a Romulon ship, that is easily 30 times the size of the Starship. It has weapons that can penetrate the starship's defenses with ease and immediately begins tearing the ship to pieces. Only a heroic effort by the elder Kirk, salvages any hope for the passengers. It truly is a great way to get the movie started and to pin you back into your seat for a thrill ride.

Suddenly we are jumped into the future and we are taken to the corn fields of Iowa, Kirk's state of childhood. Not only is it a rural upbringing, but it also is the fabrication ground of the Starfleet's ships. Kirk spends his entire childhood in the shadow of these amazing monsters of the plains. However, he seems completely aloof to his history or the starfleet and begins thinking about joining the fleet after a chance run in with a ship commander that had studied Kirk's father.
The Commander challenges him to make something of himself and see if he can match the legacy of his father. Kirk, without a destiny or direction decides that he is up for the challeneg and barely makes it in time to join before the cadets are shipped off. The movie hardly lets up from there and we are taken into the new style of Star Trek, a Star Trek that has shaken loose of its sillier roots and gripped a fiercer reality that makes it feel weightier. The bad guys are meaner, the battles bloodier and you care more for the characters. I love this new direction that J.J Abrams has taken!
Yes, I am a geek and yes Star Trek is worth every penny!
El Golden Stallion, Pubfilms.com's beast of burden, out.

"Slumdog Millionaire"...... Worth the Academy Award for Best Picture?

Have you ever seen one of those movies that completely inspires you or stays with you for a long time afterward? ... I'll give you an example, Karate Kid. The first time I saw that movie, many years ago, I came out of the dark theater and my life was transformed. I walked straight up to a nearby fire hydrant and gave it the most brutal and deadly crane kick a nine year old could muster. I think the hydrant came out on top in that first encounter, but I have been planning my revenge since.

Any way, Karate Kid, Hoosiers, Fellowship of the Ring, Matrix, etc... all of them movies that changed the Golden Stallion, made the Stallion who he is today in all of his Goldeness. Well Slumdog Millionaire is one of those type of movies.

I had heard a bit about the movie beforehand, even watched as the filmmakers cleaned up on the Oscars, so I went into the film with high expectations, but not completely sure where the movie was going to take me. The movie starts in a detainee cell as the main character Jamal is being tortured so that he will confess. What are the authorities trying to get him to confess? How he is cheating on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"... the Indian version. The powers that be can not believe that a "Slumdog" could ever know the answers to the questions he has been asked. You see in India a "Slumdog" is someone who lives in the poverty stricken neighborhoods of India's cities. Now we have all seen slums, but the slums in the United States and Europe are palatial compared to what the slums are like in India.

The filmmakers actually filmed in the slum areas of India and it was unbelievable to actually see how hundreds of thousands of people live there in India. It is unlike anything I had ever seen before. Anyhow, Jamal begins to "talk" and tell his captors exactly how he knows the answers to all of these questions. He takes us, the viewer, back into his early childhood and walks us through each experience that prepared him to know these answers. Truly a masterful way of telling a story by the screenwriter, as it wove in and out of his life and developed the main character Jamal, his morally vacant brother and Jamal's love of his life.

By far the most impacting movie I have seen in a long time and I couldn't give it a higher recommendation. Yes, it did deserve the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Over and out from El Golden Stallion the Pubfilms.com resident beast of burden.