let's go to the movies

after a year of filming around the streets of charlestown and right around my house, the trailers for ben afflecks new movie "the town" have started airing. perhaps im a little biased because it takes place in my neighborhood, but it looks like its going to be another good one from bennie. my question is about bens next film topic. he won critical acclaim for "gone baby gone" taking place in south boston. now "the town" features charlestown. which boston neighborhood is next?

heres the trailer:


on a personal note, a friend of ours (who i will refer to as Detective McMurty to conceal his identity) was able to get a small part in the film as well. in the trailer he played one of the gangsters firing a gun in the car while wearing a nun mask. and if youre into oddball, strangely funny short films you can check out more of his work here.

theres a part of me that wants to go see "the expendables" but you know its only going to be good in how bad it is. the volume of action stars crammed into one movie though is staggering: bruce willis, sly stallone, arnold, jason stratham, jet li, mickey rourke, steve austin, dolph lundgren, randy couture. wow! and YOU KNOW every one of them will have some sort of clever tag line as that terrorize and destroy. im sure california residents are just happy that arnold had some extra time in his schedule to film a movie as his state falls to shambles.

lastly, i finally got around to watching "crazy heart." i know im late to the game on this one, but if you havent seen it, you should. what a great movie. excellent acting. superb music from t. bone burnett once again on the soundtrack. who knew that jeff bridges and colin farrell(!) had such good singing voices? and for colin to morph into a american country western accent was impressive.

so make yourself some popcorn and settle into the couch or venture out to the theatre to escape the summer heat and get lost in the movies.

enjoy!!

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