In our first 'sites we love' post, we listed three new movie/entertainment sites - Jaden's Screenwriting for Hollywood, Jean's Sizzling Popcorn and James' Worth the Popcorn. They are a bunch of highly professional and committed bloggers, with their own unique approach to blogging and social networking. They've become good friends and I think that's what really matter the most. Now, we have three more sites we love featured here. Check them out!

He has written one book and is composing music in his spare time. His dreams are to travel around the world and he has lived in several countries, including Ireland and China. He has a particular passion for the music in movies and decided to start his own blog about movie scores and soundtracks at soundtrackgeek.com.

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The Reviewer has been 'reviewing' movies since 2005. I find his reviews comprehensive and honest and very refreshing compared to some review sites that are obviously just out to impress.

Aside from that, the site's layout is superb! It's very user-friendly and while there are lots of ads, they are presented in an organized way. Says Mikey:

I just like movies, and people liked what I had to say about them. So I started writing about them. I write poorly, I spell even worse, but will try to keep sentences in a somewhat readable format.

How's that for honesty?

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I really hate Haneke's Funny Games! But that's just me of course. I just recently visited a movie review site that had been discussing the dreaded movie and they've launched a series of debates to deliberate on almost every detail of this remake.

I have been surprised (and impressed) by the way they've developed their site strategy. It's not because of the way they review films - they review the way most movie review sites do - but because of their ingenious concept for making articles more interesting and challenging. That is very hard to do, especially in such a crowded niche field as movies!

Check them out! [ Moviezeal website ]

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Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Robert Luketic
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Running Time: 123 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

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Review by Jeremy Welsch

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It's movies like this that test the film critic in me. I have two sides battling for supreme domination. On one hand there is my generally critical nature of movies themselves and on the other, there is my love for the subject matter. They are two sides that I knew walking in to the theatre would go at it like a Seinfeld black and white cookie.

The movie 21 tells a story I am familiar with. It is the Hollywood version of the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich, the story of six MIT students who perfected a card-counting system and took the Las Vegas casinos for millions of dollars in the early 1990s playing blackjack. I use the term ‘playing’ loosely because these kids didn’t get involved in the game to gamble. It was business - they were there to make money. And make money they did. I became familiar with the story after my first trip to Las Vegas, many moons ago. The story spoke to the kid in me the same way The Goonies made me think I was going to find treasure in the small Iowa town of my upbringing. I don’t think it was so much that I thought it was really going to happen but that it would be way cool if it did.

"...is the perfect cautionary tale needed for anyone who thinks they can take the house."

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Las Vegas. There really is nowhere else like it. Having been there many times, people often ask me about the appeal of Vegas and I always say the same thing – it is something you have to experience for yourself. Assuming you can behave relatively responsibly, it is some of the most fun you can have over a weekend. It’s a place where the only rule is that there aren’t any – or at least not in the ‘real world’ sense. A place where your vices may be legal and activities otherwise frowned upon are tolerated with a blind eye. The unrestricted availability of just about anything you’ve ever dreamed of earned Las Vegas the name Sin City, and that makes it the perfect setting for many movies and TV shows. To mark the release of the movie 21, as well as my upcoming trip next week, I present

tMF Top Five – Best Las Vegas Movies
By Jeremy Welsch

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abby Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Running Time: 113 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

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Review by David DiMichele

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Isn’t it ironic to see a decorated soldier, recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart and just back from his tour of duty in Iraq - on the run? He goes on the run in his own hometown in Texas, until eventually they're searching for him all the way from Texas to New York. Most of this time he tries to keep a low profile. He’s wearing his U.S. Army shirt and pants while being pursued by the country he just served. He finds out that he’s just one of many soldiers trying to flee and fight at the same time, all of them subject to a law that was passed by the president himself and labeled as “stop-loss.” This law translates meaning a soldier who has to go back to war, involuntarily, because there’s a shortage of American soldiers on the battle front.

Driven and ambitious. Two words that best describe young actor and filmmaker Luke Eberl. At the age of seven, Luke was already a part of the film industry, having had his first role on stage in Colorado. Since then Luke continued to do movies and at the same time, he began to observe and take note of what was happening behind the scenes.

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Born March 29, 1986, Luke is certainly not someone who is satisfied with just playing roles. While a lot of his contemporaries remained involved in other trivial pursuits, Luke had already begun his transition from actor to filmmaker.

In this interview, we put a series of questions to Luke about his latest film Choose Connor as well as some other serious and fun questions.

Definitely one of the most exciting and talented actors we have today is British-born Jim Sturgess. The 26-year old actor has been hogging the news with such movies as The Other Boleyn Girl and the upcoming 21.

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Of course, you'll remember Jim very well if you've watched last year's Across the Universe. If not, this film may be a good introduction to this amazing actor.

There's an awesome Jim Sturgess article by Melanie Pimentel that has just recently been launched at ABC News Now.

"I think she's a wonderful actress and I really admired the work that she did in the first Batman, but I don't think it would have worked if I tried to imitate her. I think the only way to do it is to do it like myself," says Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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Maggie recently did an interview with Superherohype.com and she talked about her role in The Dark Knight. Her opinion about fellow actress Katie Holmes was one of the first questions asked of her.

While I don't think she's quite aware of the way some bloggers misquoted her as she spoke about her role as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, still it remains an issue for me that of all the movie sites out there it's cinematical who tried to create controversy out of an innocent remark she made a few months back. Here's the post by cinematical blogger Patrick Walsh:

"While recently discussing her role in next year's Bat-sequel The Dark Knight, Maggie Gyllenhaal dunked Katie Holmes into a Dawson's Creek of verbal abuse. Gyllenhaal is taking over the role of Rachel Dawes, which Holmes originated in 2005's Batman Begins. Check out this quote from Gyllenhaal, but you might want to put a jacket on first: "I'm not thinking of it as a role that anyone's played before. I'm not walking into Katie Holmes' performance. I'm thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who's alive and smart. Chris (Nolan) asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress." Daaaaaamn! No she didn't!

The last part containing "some generic lady in a dress" seems to be the point of contention. But Maggie only refers to how she'll portray the character and it has nothing to do with Katie Holmes or her peformance.

From one of France's most original and stylish filmmakers, Christophe Honoré comes Love Songs. A modern-day musical told through unforgettable songs sung entirely by the cast and scored by Alex Beaupain, the film has overjoyed audiences at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.

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More about the Movie: In the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, Ismael (Louis Garrel of Dans Paris and The Dreamers) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier of Swimming Pool) enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice (Clotilde Hesme of Regular Lovers.) When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love. For Ismael, this means negotiating through the advances of Julie's sister (Chara Mastroianni of Persepolis) and a young college student (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet of Strayed); one of which may offer him redemption.