movie review by Paul Sheehan

Wanted redefines the action genre with its elegant violence and over-the-top action sequences. Not since “The Matrix” have the laws of physics been broken so beautifully. The fact that the plot makes no sense is entirely irrelevant.

The film's predictable story is based on a comic book by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones. However, the action sequences are so relentlessly entertaining that the context doesn’t even matter.

*read on*

movie review by Brown Burnett, MemphisMojo.com editor

Mongol, a 2008 Oscar nominee from Kazakhastan offers breathtaking escape fare for a superhero-choked summer.

by Madison McGinness

Memphis City Council chairman Jim Strickland led a long-awaited discussion Tues., June 14, addressing the improved public pool safety measures at a City Council parks committee meeting. The meeting was called in response to the drowning of two teenage boys in separate city public pools on Saturday, May 31.

Clooney fails to score with Leatherheads

by Chase Evans

Leatherheads was co-written by Rick Reilly and Duncan Brantley - Reilly a Sports Illustrated columnist and Brantley the former caretaker of Steven Spielberg’s estate. In fact, most of Leatherheads was written in Spielberg’s house. The screenplay bounced around for about 15 years until director/leading man George Clooney tweaked it and set things into motion.

The movie is inspired by, but not necessarily based upon, the birth of professional football in the U.S. The names are fictional, and liberties are certainly taken but the movie isn’t trying to provide a history lesson.

Once more, view the collaborative misadventures of Tam Tran and Christopher Parks in photos taken amidst mud, angsty teenagers, beer bellies, and even more corndogs that look like practical jokes.

Jacobs slaying reward gets raised to $10,000

by Brown Burnett
MemphisMojo Editor

The pain was obvious but so was the courage and determination on the faces of Alan and Cathie Jacobs.. Crimestoppers says Jacobs was shot at about 11:30 p.m. in the Riverside Park Marina parking lot in an apparent robbery attempt and random act of violence.

“We have lost time in this case, but we want to make certain that everyone knows we have not lost the tenacity,” Memphis Police Det. Monique Martin said.

Alleyways: Hey, Hollywood! Want a winner? Put a train in your next film

by David W. Brown

Took to the City of New Orleans to the Mardi Gras this year. The romance of the rails never seems to wear off for my wife and me.

This all made me realize that you don’t see many current-run films featuring train travel (except for the Harry Potter series, of course, and the popular Trainspotting).

The rails used to be a staple of movies.

The noisy return of John Rambo –after two decades

Movie review By Brown Burnett -- MemphisMojo.com editor

Sylvester Stallone continues to be the consummate underdog, even now, in his early 60s.

His 2006 Rocky Balboa was the best movie I saw that year –thoughtful, well-directed and well-written (by Stallone of course) and, to be honest, I was stunned by how good it was.

See? I STILL underestimate Stallone after all these years...