LAMB #875 - That's So Freaking Hollywood

URL: http://thatssofreakinghollywood.blogspot.com/
Site Name: That's So Freaking Hollywood
Categories: Reviews, General, Humor, Horror, Classic Film, Lists, Trivia, Quotes
Rating: PG

What is the main focus of your site?
to share my distinct love for cinema and Hollywood through short reviews and lots of trivia

Trailer Talk Thursday: The Hangover Part II and Everything Must Go

Hey everyone, Travis of The Movie Encyclopedia here with another edition of Trailer Talk Thursday where I bring you the latest trailers to hit the silver screen.

Now I was bombarded with trailers this week (hey it happens every so often) and there were a few that caught my eye. That said I usually only do one or two a week so not every trailer gets its time in the spotlight. That or my opinion of the trailer is so minute that I can't really write an entire article on them. A few that come to mind are The Three Musketeers in 3D, Mr. Poppers Penguins, Midnight in Paris and Sympathy for Delicious, all which have come out recently. Three Musketeers looks like Medieval Resident Evil (even comes with Victorian Mila Jovovich), Penguins looks like a decent kids movie, Paris looks like yet another Woody Allen movie I'll probably see eventually but not on my immediate "to see" list and Delicious looks like a heartfelt, preachy film that some will probably love or hate depending on their opinion of a higher power.

With those out of the way I did see two trailers that I think are worth talking about more in detail: The Hangover Part II and Everything Must Go. 

First up...Hangover Part II-

 Before I was a film blogger I was just your average journal blogger who talked about his everyday life. That blog is dead and gone now that I have TME but I always kept the transcript of one post: a review of The Hangover. To date that is the earliest review I ever remember publishing. It looks laughable compared to my stuff now but I'm sentimental. I digress.

The Hangover Part II is the follow up to the mega surprise hit The Hangover. I don't know what it was but that film was lightning in a bottle, both commercially and critically and it launched the career of Zach Galifianakis, as well as helping Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms become household names. The Hangover is now a 21st century classic in the minds of people and so it came to no ones surprise that they were greenlighting a sequel.

A Teaser was released about a month ago and it caused a roar of cheering and applause when I first saw it at my local theater. I know I'm excited but I'm cautious. After watching the full length trailer, my caution seems more rational then it was before: it seems like more of the same. Now that's not a bad thing per se but sometimes being too similar can be the downfall of an otherwise good movie. I mean you have the guys getting drunk, waking up with mysterious things on them and in their pockets, losing someone and not knowing where he is and there is an animal wandering about. Add in Chang, the small crazed gangster from the first movie and it really seems like a rehash of the original.

But I'm optimistic that it will be good, I did laugh a lot, so without further ado here is the trailer:

Next up...Everything Must Go-

I like Will Ferrell I really do. Having said that I do get somewhat tired of him when I see him in the same role over and over. That's why I was happy when Stranger Than Fiction came out, a film that let let him be funny but also let him show his dramatic side. He can do drama well when he wants to and I think he's a better actor when he does mix it up. Everything Must Go, his latest movie, seems to luckily be going down that STF track.

Based on a short story by famed author Raymond Carver, Ferrell plays Nick, an alcoholic car salesman who has lost his job, his house and his wife, all within a short span of time. So what does he do? He lives on his front lawn, refusing to get up and leave. But of course that is against the law, or at least in the town where the movie takes place, and is forced to hold a yard sale, thereby killing two birds with one stone: letting him live on his lawn and getting rid of some of his stuff he doesn't need anymore.

After watching the trailer I'm optimistic but the early reviews leave me less so. Critics have seemed to not like the movie saying Ferrell is too "one note" and can't handle being a serious actor but I think I'll reserve judgement until I see the film for myself.

Here is the trailer:

But these are just my opinions. Tell me what you think in the comments below and I will see you all next week on Trailer Talk Thursday.

Poll Results; New Polls

Well it's good to know that people didn't participate in the LION Awards or LAMB Devours the Oscars due to forgetting. The majority of poll participants say they did participate in LIONs and Devours. A tie for second place were the new LAMBs who weren't around during the features and the folks who didn't see enough films to participate. It's good to know that only four LAMBs claimed no interest at all.

As for the format of the LIONs, it seems the majority prefers voting for their top 5 in each category. That's cool. Extra math for me, but the results feel more thorough.

Now it's time to start talking LAMMY Awards! (Click here if you have no idea what a "LAMMY Award" is.) The following are last year's categories:

Best Design
Best Blog
Best Blog Name
Most Prolific
Best Blog-a-thon/Meme
Funniest Writer
Brainiac Award
Best Random LAMB Banner
Best Overall Post
Best Horror/Sci-Fi Blog
Best Classic Film Blog
Best Festival/Awards Coverage
Best New LAMB (starting with LAMB #517)
Best Podcast
Best Movie Reviewer

The first poll will ask which category you want to go. The one (maybe two) with the most votes will not be in this year's awards.

Here are previous awards that have been retired (links to ones that may need further explanation):

Best Ratings System
Most Likely to Get Paid
Best Use of Widgetology
Most Ambitious
Best Running Feature
Best Theme
Best Impression of JD Salinger
Best Impression of Bob Dylan
Best Use of Technology (Alternative Media)

The second poll wants to know if any of these need to come out of retirement to replace whatever current category(ies) is ousted. If you choose "Other" please comment or email me with suggestions. I'll leave the polls up for a couple of weeks and once we have the results the nomination process will begin.

The LAMMYs belong to all of us so please decide what categories are worthy of your votes!

LAMB #874 - The Hell Street Journal

URL: http://hellstreetjournal.blogspot.com/
Site Name: The Hell Street Journal
Categories: Reviews, News, Horror
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
To provide latest horror movie news and reviews

LAMB #873 - FarFetchFilm

URL: farfetchfilm.com
Site Name: FarFetchFilm
Categories: Reviews, General, Classic Film, Lists, Video, Festivals, Film-Travel
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
Reviews of alternative modern cinema, with reviews of rare classics, best-of-lists, coverage of major festivals for 2011 (Sydney, Melbourne & London planned)

Last chance to March to Box Office Madness!

You must get your entry in to me by Thursday night 11:59 PM (Pacific) to be eligible. Good luck! Click the banner above for the full rundown of rules and to get your entry form. More details, including the expanded prize pool, coming soon. In the meantime, so you know that I'm no cheater, here's my bracket.

LAMB #872 - The Dirty with Class Blog

URL: http://dirtywithclass.wordpress.com/
Site Name: The Dirty with Class Blog
Categories: Reviews, General, News, Editorials
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
Discussion of different film related topics, and movie reviews

Classic Chops: March 30th

Good news, everyone! We’re back with another edition of “Classic Chops”…

Site Name: Defiant Success
A Star is Born
Submitted by: Defiant Success

Site Name: Wide Screen World
The Flying Deuces
Submitted by: Wide Screen World

Site Name: Let’s All Go to the Movies!!!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Submitted by: Let’s All Go to the Movies!!!

Site Name: Only the Cinema
Underworld (1927)
Submitted by: Commentary Track

Site Name: Cinema Sights
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Submitted by: Insight Into Entertainment

Classic Chops enthusiastically welcomes any essay or post you’ve composed on a film classic—and even though I originally set the criterion at films released in 1965 and before, I have “cheated” a little and included films after that date that I don’t think too many people would dispute are “classics.” Simply send your submissions to classicchops@gmail.com by April 5 at 6:00pm EST…and any questions, comments, suggestions and samples of Oreos Heads-or-Tails cookies should be addressed to that same e-mail address as well. Until next time…see you at the movies!

LAMB #871 - Saturday Night Screening

URL: http://saturdaynightscreening.wordpress.com/
Site Name: Saturday Night Screening
Categories: Reviews
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
the bad, the gem, the forgotten, the direct-to-video, the unpopular opinion

LAMB #870 - J.T.'s Movie Blog

URL: http://www.jtmovieblog.com/
Site Name: J.T.'s Movie Blog
Categories: Reviews, News, Classic Film, movie trailers, memorable movie character tributes
Rating: G

What is the main focus of your site?
Movie reviews, news and previews of current films in the genre of action, drama, comedy and sci-fi

LAMB #869 - Couch Potato Club

URL: http://www.couchpotatoclub.com/
Site Name: Couch Potato Club
Categories: Reviews, General, News, Editorials, Lists
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
The main focus of the site is movie news as well as DVD news. With the occasional articles/reviews.

LAMBs in the Director's Chair #15.3

Event #15 starring
Spike Lee
March 25th to 27th, 2011

There is something a little bit different about the material that is presented today. It is the first time that a single website has submitted so much material for a Director’s Chair installment that I have included a separate section just for any remaining material that was not included with the other categories. A large amount of gratitude goes to Surrender to the Void for such a strong turnout for the event.

REVIEWS FOR 25th Hour (2002)

• Surrender to the Void
• Defiant Success

REVIEWS FOR Inside Man (2006)

• Lime Reviews
• Foolish Blatherings

FROM THE VAULTS OF Surrender to the Void

• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• John Leguizamo's Freak (1998)
• Summer of Sam (1999)

Thank you for sticking around for all three days of Spike Lee installment of The LAMBs in the Director's Chair. The announcement for the sixteenth installment will be made public as soon as I can obtain a few promotional banners for the event.

LAMBcast #61: 2011 Comic Book Movies

The Green Hornet. Priest. Thor. Captain America. Green Lantern. Cowboys & Aliens. X-Men: First Class. Conan the Barbarian. You couldn't possibly miss the fact that there are a ton of comic book adaptations coming to the screen this summer. James, Nick, and Dylan break them down with a little outside help, as we welcome Justin Fields, also known as Dylan's brother.

Also on tap:

* LAMB of the Week
* Trailer Talk: Super
* 3 (!) games of Last LAMB Standing

For the LAMB of the Week, we take a look at LAMB #613, Cinematic Paradox:


If you'd like your site to be a future LAMB of the Week, hit me up via email and I'll add you to the queue.

If you're interested, you too can be a LAMBcaster - we love new blood! For more information on the LAMBcast, check out the topic at the LAMB Forums. Music provided royalty-free by Kevin MacLeod's Incompetech website. Big thanks to Kevin for providing this service. The LAMBcast loves feedback, too. Either here in the comments section or to blogcabins@yahoo.com or to our Facebook page. Also, we're on iTunes, and would still love a review, even if it's a bad one.

Thanks for listening!

LAMB #868 - Nothing Is Written

URL: http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Nothing Is Written
Categories: Reviews, News, Editorials, Classic Film
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
I review movies, mostly classic (pre-1980) films, with a concentration on American and British cinema. Occasionally I report on news and writer longer articles, editorials and rants.

LAMBs in the Director's Chair #15.2

Event #15 starring
Spike Lee
March 25th to 27th, 2011

Today will be a simple and understated chapter in the fifteenth installment of the Director’s Chair series. Listed below are a couple of reviews for three separate Spike Lee films, including Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), and He Got Game (1998).

REVIEWS FOR Jungle Fever (1991)

• Permanent Plastic Helmet
• Surrender to the Void

REVIEWS FOR Malcolm X (1992)

• Jack L. film reviews
• Defiant Success

REVIEW FOR He Got Game (1998)
Wide Screen World

Tomorrow marks the final day of Director's Chair #15 starring Spike Lee. There will be a couple more reviews for his films, so do not miss out!

LAMB Casting: Magnolia (VOTING TIME)

This time you had a bit hard, you had to recast the huge ensemble of P. T. Anderson's Magnolia and more than a few participants and spectators commented on the difficulty of it (especially a certain role created by Julianne Moore. I received four interesting casting ideas, each with more than a bit of merits. Here they are.

         

CAST A

Susan Sarandon (Narrator); Christian Bale (Frank T. J. Mackey); Dennis Haysbert (Jimmy Gator); Jurnee Smollett (Claudia Wilson Gator); Frank Langella (Earl Partridge); Sandra Oh (Linda Partridge); Frankie McLaren (Stanley Spector); Kal Penn (Phil Parma); Steve Carell (Donnie Smith); Jason Lee (Officer Jim Kurring); Scott Bakula (Rick Spector)

CAST B

Mark Ruffalo (Narrator); Cillian Murphy (Frank T. J. Mackey); Alan Arkin (Jimmy Gator) ; Jennifer Lawrence (Claudia Wilson Gator); Hal Holbrook (Earl Partridge); Toni Collette (Linda Partridge); Max Records (Stanley Spector); Justin Kirk (Phil Parma); John Hawkes (Donnie Smith); Jason Lee (Officer Jim Kurring); Scott Bakula (Rick Spector)

CAST C

Vin Diesel (Narrator); Michael Fassbender (Frank T. J. Mackey); Tom Wilkinson (Jimmy Gator) ; Melanie Lynskey (Claudia Wilson Gator); Michael Douglas (Earl Partridge); Samantha Morton (Linda Partridge); Max Records (Stanley Spector); Mark Ruffalo (Phil Parma); Michael Stuhlbarg (Donnie Smith); Seth Rogen (Officer Jim Kurring); Scott Bakula (Rick Spector)

CAST D 

Alec Baldwin (Narrator); Christian Bale (Frank T. J. Mackey); Alan Arkin (Jimmy Gator) ; Winona Ryder (Claudia Wilson Gator); Robert Duvall (Earl Partridge); Laura Dern (Linda Partridge); Chandler Canterbury (Stanley Spector); Edward Norton (Phil Parma); Robin Williams (Donnie Smith); Adam Sandler (Officer Jim Kurring); Scott Bakula (Rick Spector)

   

Now, it's time for you to vote....

Make your pick.

LAMB #867 - The B-Horror Blog

URL: http://bhorrorblog.wordpress.com/
Site Name: The B-Horror Blog
Categories: Reviews, Humor, Horror
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
The focus of The B-Horror Blog is to find and review some of the worst horror movies ever made and provide some light-hearted entertainment to my readers.

Bloody Chops: March 26th

Site Name: Bonjour Tristesse
The New Wave of Flesh and Blood
Submitted By: Bonjour Tristesse

Site Name: myfilmhabit.com
Creeping Dread
Submitted By: MyFilmHabit

Site Name: Invasion of the B Movies
Pieces
Submitted By: Invasion of the B Movies

If you want to submit a Bloody Chop, you must do the following:
1. Use this format:
Site Name:
Post Title:
Link:
Submitted By:

2. Email the filled up format to bloodychops@gmail.com
3. You and the chop you're sending in must be a LAMB or a pending LAMB.
4. They must be in by 11:59 EST on Thursday March 31st. I'm going out of town April 1st so I'll be doing the post early.

Thanks and enjoy!
-Jason

LAMBs in the Director's Chair #15.1

Event #15 starring
Spike Lee
March 25th to 27th, 2011

The first reported movie that Spike Lee had directed was a student film for Morehouse College. He named the short film Last Hustle in Brooklyn (1977). It appears his fascination with New York has shown up very early in his move making career. This is an interesting piece of trivia about Lee, since he was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, which is also the location of the Morehouse College campus where he attended college as an undergraduate student. When he shifted over to his graduate studies in the early 1980s he enrolled at New York University Film School where he directed Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983). Spike Lee has evolved into a filmmaker who tells stories as a form of social observation with an emphasis upon racial relations in America. The most famous of all his earliest of films would be Do the Right Thing (1989), which had garnered an Oscar award nomination for best original screenplay of the year and is known for its story about racial conflict in the Brooklyn neighborhood.

REVIEWS OF Do the Right Thing (1989)

• Bill's Movie Emporium
• The Movie Snob (Part One)
• The Movie Snob (Part Two)
• Defiant Success

CAREER EDITORIAL

• Big Thoughts from a Small Mind
• Can't Explain

Stick around, because there will be more Director's Chair articles available on The LAMBs site tomorrow.

LAMBScores: Drive Angry

Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob


Film Forager
Careful with that Blog, Eugene
The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World


Not Just Movies


Blog Cabins

Average LAMBScore out of five, rounded to nearest half-LAMB: (6 sites)


Median LAMBScore:


Submissions for this film are now closed. To submit your rating & review for other new releases, visit the LAMB Forums (must be an existing LAMB to join).

See what our fellow movie lovers at Total Film had to say about Drive Angry:

LAMB #866 - Films Exposed

URL: http://filmsexposed.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Films Exposed
Categories: Reviews
Rating: PG

What is the main focus of your site?
Reviewing the latest Hollywood flicks mostly through the use of sarcasm and witty humor.

Trailer Talk Thursday: The Bang Bang Club and Captain America

Hey everybody, Travis McCollum of The Movie Encyclopedia here with another edition of Trailer Talk Thursday, where I bring you the latest trailers to hit the silver screen.

A lot of trailers have hit the web recently but two that have garnered a ton of buzz, both positive and negative, have been the film adaptation of the auto-biography "The Bang Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War" which was written by two of the members (the other two are dead) and the much awaited debut of the Captain America feature trailer. No more 30 second spots or still images, we get a full length look at what we are to expect this summer.

First up is The Bang Bang Club-

 I'll give you a second to Wikipedia what The Bang Bang Club is...go on. You good? Well in short they were a group of photographers who took controversial pictures during the Apartheid period in South Africa, specifically around the early 90s. One of their most famous photographs is this (I won't post it on here for the faint of heart), which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. The man who took it committed suicide in 1994 because of many reasons, the biggest being the images he saw and photographed haunted him and he couldn't take it anymore.

 In 2006 Dan Krauss made a documentary about Kevin Carter (the man who committed suicide) and it was nominated for an Academy Award. Now 5 years later South African documentary filmmaker Steven Silver is making a feature length film about The Bang Bang Club starring Ryan Phillipe, Taylor Kitsch and Malin Akerman.

Here is the trailer:

So what do I think? Well while I'm not the biggest Ryan Phillipe fan, I must admit he's grown as an actor in the past couple years. While his accent seems a little hinky (or at least when I hear it) I think he delivers some good emotion into the performance and he could be potentially pretty good. And I've always been a giant Ackerman supporter so she already has my vote of confidence. Honestly this movie could either be a really good eye opening drama or it could be a heavy handed message for peace. I'm hoping for the former.

Next is Captain America-

If you are a frequent reader of T 3 then you will know that I already covered the 30 second Super Bowl ad for this movie. But 30 seconds wasn't enough for me and I've been waiting with bated breath for a feature length trailer to arrive. Considering the Cap's terrible luck with film so far, the feature length trailer could have been terrible or epic. It is the latter most definitely. I don't know what it is but there is something about this trailer that screams awesome. The nods to other comics (look for Stark Sr), Hugo Weaving as a villain (yay) and the overall sense of scale and importance in this film makes it one to watch out for this summer.

If you want more information on the movie or the horrid history of the Cap then check my previous Trailer Talk Thursday post about him.

Now...the trailer:

Yeah...AWESOME!

But as usual these are just my opinions. Leave a comment in the section below and tell me what you think and I will see you all next week on Trailer Talk Thursday.

LAMB Acting School 101: Gary Oldman

CS here with all of the wonderful submissions for our LAMB Acting School 101 on Gary Oldman. As always, a huge thanks goes out to all the sites that took the time to send in submissions.

Articles, Podcasts, Artwork, and Lists

In episode 38 of the Reel Insight podcast, Jess and Rachel discuss their top three and bottom three Gary Oldman films.

Ruth, the FlixChatter guru, features Oldman in her ”Chat-Worthy Thespian” series. She also makes a great case on why it is a crime that Gary Oldman does not have an Oscar.

Over at Suspend Your Disbelief, Emma names her five favourite Oldman good guy roles as well as her five favourite bad guy roles.

Katie from Just Plain Something see Oldman as the only shining light when breaking down the Red Riding Hood trailer.

Rachel’s Reel Reviews own Rachel examines some of the Good, Bad, and a whole lot of Ugly in between that makes up Gary Oldman’s body of work.

Christian over at All Things Kocinski focuses on four characters that exemplifies Oldman’s versatility.

Sean, the brains behind Spooky Sean’s Sinful Bloggery, uses this screenshot from Dracula to ponder whether Gary Oldman was the best Dracula ever?

Emma points out the many onscreen deaths of Gary Oldman.

Flickers’ Dave provides a list of Oldman’s five best performances.

Dylan of Blog Cabins highlights nine Oldman-inspired pieces of artwork.

Emma provides a nice profile of Oldman’s career and includes five pieces of trivia on the actor.

Reviews

The Book of Eli
Big Thoughts From A Small Mind
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
Suspend Your Disbelief


The Dark Knight
Surrender to the Void
Big Thoughts From A Small Mind
Defiant Success

State of Grace
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews

Romeo is Bleeding
Net-Flixation

Sid & Nancy
Wide Screen World
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
Surrender to the Void
Defiant Success

Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Surrender to the Void
Suspend Your Disbelief

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Surrender to the Void
Suspend Your Disbelief

Rain Falls
Suspend Your Disbelief

Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Surrender to the Void

The Fifth Element
Suspend Your Disbelief

Batman Begins
Defiant Success
Surrender to the Void

Léon (The Professional)
Foolish Blatherings
Suspend Your Disbelief

True Romance
Foolish Blatherings

A Christmas Carol
Big Thoughts From A Small Mind

JFK
Defiant Success

Air Force One
Suspend Your Disbelief



Next month's LAMB Acting School 101 subject will be Elizabeth Taylor! If you would like to see your favourite actor/actress highlighted in this series, be sure to add their name to the list in the forum section of The LAMB.

Past actors/actresses featured in this column can be found in the LAMB Acting School 101 Archives.

LAMB #865 - Next Door Critic

URL: http://www.nextdoorcritic.com/
Site Name: Next Door Critic
Categories: Reviews, General, Editorials, Classic Film, Lists
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
To provide short and sweet reviews. Also to introduce old, foreign, and indie films to a wider audience.

PLUG: Floating Red Couch

Hello LAMB,

My Floating Red Couch has not disappeared, it's just been in storage under a sheet waiting for the next great film series.

It's open once again and playing host to:

The Battle of the Fatheads -- a Battle Royale between William Holden and Leonardo DiCaprio between April 17 and 26th.

http://www.floatingredcouch.com/2011/03/announcing-battle-of-fatheads-holden-vs.html

The link will lead you to a posting with the schedule of movies, I invite and encourage anyone to participate with materials even somewhat relevant -- a posting on the movies, the actors, other movies that the actors have done, artwork, photography, little weird videos, and let's work sound in there too, why not?

Whatever, the Couch is available for all butts no matter how big or strange.

If you want to participate, email rubenr3 [at] gmail dot com and we'll hash out the details.

Thanks
Ruben

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details (what, when, where, and a link, for starters) - I'll handle the rest.

LAMB #864 - Strictly Splatter

URL: http://www.strictlysplatter.com/
Site Name: Strictly Splatter
Categories: Reviews, Humor, Horror
Rating: R

What is the main focus of your site?
STRICTLY SPLATTER aims to provide informative and entertaining reviews of OBSCURE HORROR FILMS from arould the globe. We concentrate on SCHLOCK, SLEAZE and GORE!!

Classic Chops: March 23rd

Good news, everyone! We’re back with another edition of “Classic Chops”…

Site Name: Silent Volume
The Wolf Song (1929)
Submitted by: Silent Volume

Site Name: Between the Seats
Review: Each Dawn I Die
Submitted by: Between the Seats

Site Name: Let’s All Go to the Movies!!!
100 Rifles
Submitted by: Let’s All Go to the Movies!!!

Site Name: Ferdy on Films
Hell Divers (1957)
Submitted by: Commentary Track

Site Name: Rachel’s Reel Reviews
The Classics Corner: Casablanca
Submitted by: Insight Into Entertainment

Classic Chops enthusiastically welcomes any essay or post you’ve composed on a film classic—and even though I originally set the criterion at films released in 1965 and before, I have “cheated” a little and included films after that date that I don’t think too many people would dispute are “classics.” Simply send your submissions to classicchops@gmail.com by March 29 at 6:00pm EST…and any questions, comments, suggestions and unclaimed poker chips should be addressed to that same e-mail address as well. Until next time…see you at the movies!

LAMB #863 - You Killed the Car

URL: http://killedthecar.blogspot.com/
Site Name: You Killed the Car
Categories: Reviews, General, Editorials, Classic Film
Rating: PG

What is the main focus of your site?
Alternating humour with a more scholarly review of the latest cinema, both mainstream and independent, You Killed the Car offers something a little more varied. Occasional editorials on all manner of cinema also appear.

LAMB Chops: March 22nd

Site Name: jdbrecords
Review of 'Last Summer' (1969)
Submitted By: jdbrecords

Site Name: Just Plain Something
Ides of March review of Much Ado about Nothing (1993)
Submitted By: Just Plain Something

Site name: Wide Screen World
Fairy tale movies that probably won't get made
Submitted By: Wide Screen World

Site Name: Movie Reviews by Tom Clift
Batte: Los Angeles fails as an Iraq War analogy and as a film
Submitted By: Tom Clift

Site Name: Blog Cabins
Introducing...the Ladies of the 90s Tournament
Submitted By: Fletch

Site Name: Anomalous Material
Top 10 Best Christian Bale Performances
Submitted By: Castor

If you want to submit a LAMB Chop, you must do the following:
1. Use this format:
Site Name:
Post Title:
Link:
Submitted By:

2. Email said format to weeklylambchops@gmail.com
3. Have them emailed by 11:59 PM on March 29th.
4. You and the Chop you send in must be a LAMB or a pending LAMB.

That's all! Thanks!
-Jason

LAMB #862 - Guardians of the Genre!

URL: http://guardiansofthegenre.blogspot.com/
Site Name: Guardians of the Genre!
Categories: Reviews, News, Editorials, Humor, Horror, Classic Film, Lists, (other)Science Fiction
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
I and my fellow Guardians write about the many virtues of our three favorite genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. I, Fritz “Doc” Freakenstein, am the moderator of this blog. I write about any of my many interests in these three genres, but I do predominantly post movie reviews. I don’t often look back to the past, but I instead concentrate on current and future genre-specific projects by some of my favorite artists, writers and musicians of the many and varied media to which I am currently enamored. I occasionally post reviews by my friends and fellow Genre Guardians: Professor Phileas Photon, Major Mac Maniac and Bill E. Bones.

PRESS RELEASE: Arrivederci Millwall

Hi All,

I hope you’re all well.

We are releasing Arrivederci Millwall on March 21st. It was a film made in 1992 about football hooligans in the 1980s and is touted as the film that inspired the countless football violence films that followed. It has never been available to the public and we brought it back to release on DVD.

If you could post the trailer on your website and let your readers know about the film I would really appreciate it. Here is the link:

http://myspace.vertigofilms.com/AWTrailer.zip

If you want a copy of the film for review please let me know and I will send a copy out to you right away.

All the best,
Jon Kluger
VERTIGO FILMS
The Big Room Studios


Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details (what, when, where, and a link, for starters) - I'll handle the rest.

LAMB #861 - The First Run

URL: http://www.thefirstrun.com/
Site Name: The First Run
Categories: Reviews,(other) Top 5's, and film related segments
Rating: PG-13

What is the main focus of your site?
Podcast featuring film reviews and general movie talk. 2 films per show, review of blu-ray and dvd releases, and a final film related segment that rotates every week.

What are your blogging goals, personally and/or professionally? In other words, what, if anything, are you trying to get out your blog?
Have a successful podcast with aspirations to being on radio in some form.

Do you prefer an interactive community for your blog or are you the teacher and your readers the students?
Interactive community

How long have you been movie blogging for, and how frequent do you post updates to your site?
Interactive community

Name up to three of your favorite movies (and no more).
Casablanca, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Brick

How did you hear about the LAMB?
Filmspotting message boards

Any additional comments, or give yourself an interview question that's not listed above.
None

Reminder: LAMB Acting School 101 Deadline March 23rd.

CS here reminding you that the submissions deadline for our next LAMB Acting School 101 is quickly approaching! Each month we highlight a different actor/actress whose performances, for better or worse, have left a mark on the cinematic landscape. This month we look at...Gary Oldman

What we need from you:

• Articles on his best performances
• Articles on his worst performances
• General thoughts (e.g. random articles, top ten lists, artwork, etc) on the actor
• Links to podcasts where you have discussed the actor’s work
• Reviews of the films the actor has appeared in
• Any material you have written in the past on this actor

Once you have the material posted on your blog, send the link to bigthoughtssmallmind@hotmail.com. As always multiple submissions are encouraged. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday March 23, 2011.

LAMBcast #60: The Adjustment Bureau

Can Matt Damon and Emily Blunt outrun Terrence Stamp and John Slattery? If only that was the central question to The Adjustment Bureau - the answer would be so easy. Also, it is not - but how much more complex is the film? That and many other questions are asked (some are answered) in the latest episode, starring James, Courtney (CS), Nick and Dylan.

Also on tap:

* Listener Feedback
* LAMB of the Week
* Trailer Talk: Super 8
* Last LAMB Standing

For the LAMB of the Week, we take a look at LAMB #550, Cine-Vue:


If you'd like your site to be a future LAMB of the Week, hit me up via email and I'll add you to the queue.

If you're interested, you too can be a LAMBcaster - we love new blood! For more information on the LAMBcast, check out the topic at the LAMB Forums. Music provided royalty-free by Kevin MacLeod's Incompetech website. Big thanks to Kevin for providing this service. The LAMBcast loves feedback, too. Either here in the comments section or to blogcabins@yahoo.com or to our Facebook page. Also, we're on iTunes, and would still love a review, even if it's a bad one.

Thanks for listening!