Sidney Lumet died last weekend. Looking through his credits, I saw that he had directed “Network“. I watched it last night for the first time in decades and loved the way it played. I don’t know if Sidney Lumet was a great director, but he was pretty good. He was a former actor and that [...]
I saw two crime related movies recently. ”The Town” and “Gomorrah”. The first movie is the second directorial effort from Ben Affleck. He wrote and stars in the movie also. I don’t know how much of the movie he actually directed, because many of the action scenes are quiet involved and speak either to a [...]
I watched “Places in the Heart”, the Robert Benton movie which got Sally Field a Oscar. Robert Benton wrote and directed it. His camera direction is just what I want from camera direcction: nothing. It is there, but you don’t know it. That comes from the way the location is set. The scenes are set [...]
I saw Avatar with Bookzilla and JMan on Christmas. There were some really small kids in the theater. There was a level of action in this movie that I don’t think is appropriate for very small children. After leaving the theater, I wanted to talk about the movie alot. Not that there is a lot [...]
I watched this with the kids last night and we talked about it afterward. The movie is a fictionalized account of drug raids in Texas that targeted black people living in housing projects. The drug raids were based on the testimony of a single informant. The criminal case fell apart and one woman, at the [...]
Atom Egoyan’s movie, Adoration, has a lot in common with the scripts I have written where, half way through, I would throw them away, thinking that no one would want to watch that particular pile of convoluted, narcissistic crap. This movie isn’t a bad movie. But I’ll never get those two hours back.
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?