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Brett Hunt cast in "Angels & Demons" movie, Hollywood, CA

HOLLYWOOD, CA - Friday, August 8th, 2008 - Actor Brett Hunt has been cast in "Angels & Demons," the long-awaited prequel to "The Da Vinci Code," which is being directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, and Ayelet Zurer. Brett Hunt will be playing Father Murphy, one of the clergy members at the Vatican. "I'm very excited to be a part of this movie," Brett exclaimed. "Meeting Tom Hanks and the rest of the cast was simply amazing. They were such genuine and nice people," he said.

In other Brett Hunt movie news, he begins filming "The Cost of Living," on August 11th, 2008 in Seattle, WA. It's a comedy about a Hitman who's new to the job and really isn't very good, often failing terribly and never quite getting his target. Brett will be playing the lead role of George and even shares a scene with his real-life daughter, child starlet Ashley Hunt. "It is such a rare treat to work with your children like this. I love making movies and I'm deeply touched and honored to have my daughter be a part of this with me. I love this scene in the script and I know she's just going to steal the show," he said laughing.

Brett's next major movie project is called "Kontrast," a dark and emotional drama about life and consequences, wherein Brett will be playing a starring role. You can check out the "Brett Hunt Fan Club" for more news and updates. Just go to http://www.myspace.com/bretthuntfanclub or check out his official website at http://www.brett-hunt.com

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Brett Hunt cast as lead in "Cost of Living," Hollywood, CA

Hollywood, CA, July 3, 2008: Fresh off the set of "Loved Ones" (a vampire tale), which is now in Post Production and scheduled for release Halloween 2008, actor/producer Brett Hunt is being sought after for several major movie projects. He's been cast as the lead role of George in "The Cost of Living," a dark comedy that's being produced by Black Squirrel Productions and will be filming in Everett, WA later this month. In a recent interview with CC Variety TV, Brett was called "one of the most sought after actors in all of Hollywood." One of Brett's biggest fans has also started a Brett Hunt Fan Club, where fans can get autographed pictures and items of the actor, and share their comments on the community message boards. So what's next for this rising star? Brett Hunt has also recently signed on for a starring role in "Kontrast," a dark and emotional drama about life and consequences.  In addition, Brett Hunt and Bryan Gallinger (drummer/songwriter for Idlemine, a well-known rock/alt band) are teaming up to write some new songs together that Brett will be guest singing and recording with this great band, proving yet again that Brett is a multi-talented and ferocious performer. Stay tuned for more on this Hollywood star. 

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Hello TPR fans, friends and readers! You've probably all been wondering what the heck happened to us over the last year, since we rarely post movie reviews anymore. Well it's a very long, wild and crazy story. We deeply apologize for keeping everyone in the dark about what's going on with us and we miss talking with you all on a regular bases (we'll get back to doing that soon, we promise!). So without further adieu, we present to you…


Well, our story starts back in August 2007. We (Brett Hunt & Robert Legend) were both gearing up to move to Los Angeles, CA after having lived in Seattle, WA for the last 8-9 years or so. We were nearing our 1-year anniversary for TPR, which we founded back in Sept. 2006. Having been reviewing movies for that entire year (and let us tell you, we had to watch a LOT of very bad movies that year) we were getting burnt out. We were seeing on average 3-5 movies a week (we saw every single wide-release and most of the limited releases too). Our lives revolved around sitting in the movie theater for most of the week, going out to dinner and writing web comics with Shawn Murray (our art monkey at the time and former member of TPR), going to conventions to promote TPR, and working our normal day jobs to amuse ourselves. It was incredibly fun at times and very tiresome other times, but we wouldn't trade any of it for the world. We loved building up TPR and after just 1 year we had a fan base of over 300,000-400,000 readers/listeners per month, syndication with SeattlePI, Party in Kingston, WildSound, and a weekly live radio spot on the rock station 103.7 BOB FM on the East Coast. We even covered the 2008 Acadeny Awards live on BBC Radio 5 Live.

We'd chosen to move to Los Angeles, CA to pursue our Hollywood dreams because after seeing so many bad movies, actors and performances, we were certain we could do better and wanted to give it a shot. We hired Teresa Ousley as our personal assistant (she was a waitress at Olive Garden in Seattle, WA when we first met her and now she's our closest friend and Brett's gorgeous fiancée). The 3 of us soon met up with our fourth, L.A.-based member, Nick Strathern, who became our manager and closest friend. Together, the four of us set out to conquer Hollywood and actually do the things that most people ever only dream about. We moved into a beautiful 3,500 sq-ft. house in the hills with a heated pool and Jacuzzi, bought some new Mazda Speed6 sports cars, upgraded our old wardrobes at stores like Nordstrom, and upgraded our styles to be more L.A. (manicures & pedicures, spa appointments, fancy haircuts, the works). It's hard for a couple manly men like us to admit at first, but it was all for the better. We never knew what we were missing! We're now proud to admit how metro-sexual we are and we highly recommend it to everyone! There's nothing like a relaxing 3-hour spa appointment. It's downright heavenly! If you ever need to get someone a good present for their birthday, anniversary, or holidays, etc. just get them a spa gift card. You'll never go wrong! Anyway, back on subject… where were we? Oh yes, we came to L.A. and got right to work. While most people come here and try for years to get anywhere, we got really busy, really fast.

Robert Legend began focusing on comedy and started doing improv comedy at the L.A. Connection Comedy Theater, which was rated the No.1 improv comedy club in L.A. by MyFoxLA.com! Brett Hunt jumped head-first into acting, fast and furiously, attaining roles in several movies and numerous TV show. He was in movies like "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Dead Air," as well as TV shows like "Boston Legal," "Numb3rs," "True Blood," and "Criminal Minds," just to name a few. We were all on "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and "Hell's Kitchen" (where they gave us unlimited free wine... Robert got really sloshed that night, LOL). We were also on a fun TV game show called "How Much Is Enough" and Robert won $4,500. Brett lost badly and Teresa made it to the final round and came really close to winning like $9,000. Nick had to babysit his niece that day, so he never played, but he could have. Oh well. Brett also starred in a mini-musical called "Bad Dad" which was really funny. We then got into producing movies and TV pilots, which consumed even more of our time. We produced "TPR Cribs: Live From L.A.", we helped out on a TV pilot called "Service of Industry" (it's a sitcom about a catering co. and the wild situations they get into), and we recently produced and wrapped "Loved Ones" –a vampire tale– which is our full-length vampire movie that will come out for Halloween this year. Brett had a starring role in the film and has been offered a multi-picture deal for the sequel and for several other movies that are written and directed by the same person who created it. Brett also has several other major movie roles on the table that we're very excited about. Robert, Teresa and Nick do a lot of the behind-the-scenes work, producing and managing everything, but they still get on-camera for little bit parts that they really enjoy playing.

During all this, around Nov. 2007, we did something that turned out to be really stupid. We got away from our entertainment roots and decided to open up a Merchant Services company, selling credit card terminals and setting merchants up with credit/debit card processing. We met a wealthy financier who loved our background in business, not to mention really liking us in general. He offered to back our business venture and made everything sound so good... almost too good. We liked the guy and everything seemed great at first, but then all sorts of problems started arising with him. He was supposed to be a silent partner, but he did everything he could to control everything and tried to run the business his way (even though he'd never run that kind of business before, while we had and we knew what we were doing). Then he stopped financing our venture, which really put a strain on things and forced us to go out of pocket to keep the business afloat. So problems began to escalate and soon it all came to a head after about 6 months. We told him off and we closed the office down and took our losses. Not only was the office a big financial blunder, what's infinitely worse is that it took us away from entertainment for a good 6 months and really slowed our progress. But thankfully, since closing it down we have bounced back very quickly in the entertainment industry. It took about 3 weeks to regain our momentum, having quickly received some great movie offers and TV work.

We've also had some C-R-A-Z-Y parties at our house in L.A. and we could tell you tons of stories, but we'd like to keep this blog PG-13 and won't go into details. We'll just say that the parties have been a LOT of fun and so far we've only had the cops called on us twice... once by the Sherriff's dept. and once by the Highway Patrol. Oh, and our house was egged once by our neighbors (seriously... who does that anymore?!). We were also given a really cool custom pool table / stripper pole by JM Billiards, which all the girls who come over love to play on. Seriously, is there some sort of gene or something that makes girls go wild when they see a stripper pole? It happens EVERY time! Even girls who seem really reserved just jump right up on there and dance around, as if nobody's watching. It's wild. But hey, we enjoy it. Wait, how'd we get off on this tangent again? Oh, right... we're guys... LOL. Sorry folks, today we just can't seem to keep our minds focused on the main stuff. Too many, um... distractions ;-). Anyways, where were we? Oh right, talking about life in Hollyweird, er um Hollywood. Yeah, that's the one. We have seen and done some wild and crazy things over the last year and we've packed in more living in a single year that most normal people do in 10 years, sometimes even a whole lifetime. Every single day is an unknown, some are insanely stressful, some are extremely fun and amazing, and some are just weird. But you know what, we all hang in there together as a team, through thick and thin; four of the best friends there ever were: Brett Hunt, Robert Legend, Teresa Ousley, and Nick "The Cholo" Strathern. We are all closer than family and while we don't always see eye-to-eye and don't always get along, I don't think any of us would trade our lives or our friendships for anything in the world. We've done so much together and it's only been a year (or at least it will be in Sept.). If we'd never taken the chance and never moved to L.A. to follow our dreams, who knows where we'd all be right now? We are by no means the wild Hollywood successes stories that we want to be, but we're living it and we're well on our way to becoming something truly great; together as one.

As for our lack of movie reviews... well, we've been REALLY busy and don't get out to the theaters as much as we used to. But you'll still see reviews from us from time to time, mostly for the big blockbuster movies. In closing, we love you all. TPR has had some of the best fans, friends and readers that any of us could have dreamed of. We're blessed to have your friendship and support, and should we ever cross paths in real life at any time, we definitely owe you all a drink!! If any of you come out to L.A., definitely look us up, we'd love to see you!

With great sincerity and affection,
The Popcorn Review

Synopsis: The continuing adventures of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.

Robert Legend's Review:

Even though I'm a guy, I've seen episodes of the show before and have always been entertained by it. It's well written and pretty funny on occasion. The movie also has its comedic moments, but overall the nearly two and a half hour story was all over the place and had no real continuity, pace or plotline. It turned into two and a half hours of random plot tangents and back and forth irrational drama that didn't really have any point. I guess that's why this movie is catered to women… only they can understand it apparently. All I learned from this movie is that some women are completely crazy (especially Carrie and Miranda) and quite frankly their guys in this movie were idiots for staying with Carrie and Miranda after all they put them through. I've met women like that in real life and let me tell you, they're just as nuts and a smart man would run for the hills and not cater to their craziness. Oh and on a funnier note, the screening that I saw had a LOT of microphone boom in some of the scenes. It was hilarious watching the actors with a huge boom right over their heads. Hopefully that gets fixed before nationwide audiences see it like that. Overall, this movie has some good moments and it was fun to watch, but holy crap was it LONG!! They could have easily cut out a good 45 minutes of the all-over-the-place story and tightened up the screws a bit plot-wise.

All in all, I'd give this movie 3 Crazy Chicks (out of 5). Re-watch value: LOW (for guys) and MEDIUM (for women).

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Synopsis: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Co-stars Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges.

Robert's Review

Not as good as "Spiderman" or "Batman Begins," but still damn good, "Iron Man" is definitely a must-see blockbuster movie. Robert Downey Jr. really fits the part and plays a great Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow plays a perfect Pepper Potts. I loved the heavy character development, but at the same time I think it was a little too slow for my tastes. About two-thirds of the movie was all character driven and quite sluggish in parts, while the other one-third of the movie had some pretty amazing special effects action sequences. Overall, I was very impressed with "Iron Man" and would happily go see it again in theaters.

Overall Rating: 4 Iron Soldiers (out of 5). Re-Watch Value: High

Brett's Review

Marvel's first solo adventure "Iron Man" looks like they did a great job coming out of the gates.  I really enjoyed this movie; Robert Downey Jr. did a fantastic job of bringing Tony Stark to life.  I thought the special effects (even though that doesn't make a movie) and the story were fantastic.  The movie is a little slow in parts however the non-slow parts made up for it.  Overall, I thought this was a well put together movie and a great job on Marvel's part.

Overall Rating 4.5 S.H.I.E.L.D's. Re-Watch Value: High (I have seen it twice already).

Trivia: (1) An Aaton 35mm camera was accidentally run over by a tank during a shoot. (2) The Iron Man Mark I armor weighed 90 pounds. (3) 400 extras were meant to be filmed standing at Tony Stark's press conference, but Robert Downey Jr. suggested they ought to sit down, as that would be more realistic and comfortable. (4) Factual errors: Stark is said to have graduated from MIT summa cum laude, but MIT does not graduate people with honors.

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