I finally finished “The Soloist” with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. I started to watch this movie while on a business trip. The Airbus had a video server and individual players in each head rest. I saw this film and thought it would be the typical Hollywood pap. About 40 minutes out of Seattle, [...]
Paul Giamatti is an actor in a play, “Uncle Vanya” and he is have a hard time getting the character. His agent points him toward an article in The New Yorker about a company that removes a person’s soul and puts it in storage. The rationale is that it won’t get in the way of [...]
Pixar’s latest animated movie, Up, is pretty good. Most Pixar movies focus on relationships that do not have a nuclear family dynamic. The Incredibles was an exception. The protagonist is a man who is waiting to die. He has lived his life and now there is nothing left. He is old, he feels broken. His [...]
If he is saying ‘yes’ to this pile of crap, what is Eddie Murphy saying ‘no’ to?
Scorcese makes a Tarrentino movie. Big deal.
I didn’t really understand what contempt was until it was explained to me in this piece on Slate. Now that I understand it, I have contempt only for Ron Rosenbaum. Which brings me to Billy Joel—the Andrew Wyeth of contemporary pop music—and the continuing irritation I feel whenever I hear his tunes, whether in the [...]
I wanted to like “24″. It has the potential to be a great story medium, incessant, pressure driving real time narrative. But it is shite. I was going to watch it on the Tivo, but I got about 10 minutes in and had to hit delete. The President, a woman, started screeching subtext. There was [...]
I’ve never been a Tom Cruise fan. I don’t think he is a good actor. I don’t like the parts of him that I can see. Don’t get me wrong. Acting well is a harrowing proposition. Living the part, letting go of every thing you are, is scary and most people can’t do it. I [...]
I’m watching this movie on DVD and it is damned good. Paul Haggis directs minimally. He uses deep focus when it works. His shot selection is set up, set up, 2 shot, 2 shot, 1 shot, 1 shot. Tommy Lee Jones wears his pain like it is being painted on him, not like a set [...]
This is one of the most remarkable collections of pictures I have ever seen. The Big Picture – Boston.com Of all of the pictures, this the one I like the most. The drip of blood, wet, expectant, on the old man’s hand captures me. What is the story? I don’t know. It is a confrontation [...]