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 to [...]
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 behest [...]
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 life [...]
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 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 no attempt [...]
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 [...]