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Let's Not Talk About Movies
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A life spent in the dark having your corneas assaulted at 24 times per second teaches a person a lot about movies. Not life necessarily, but certainly movies. And about film. And about the artisans and journeypeople who make them. We'll tell you about whether the new movies are worth paying big bucks in a theater or not (and why), take a look at some classics and time-wasters on DVD, and dissect a classic movie scene on Sundays. We'll Talk about Movies (despite the blog title)
- Added on: Aug 25th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: James Wilson
- Listed in: Film Cinema
- Tags: Film Cinema movies movie reviews film reviews movie directors
Recent Posts
Searching for Bobby Fischer
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Steve Zaillian, 1993) There's an episode from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" that's more than a bit absurd, but it has one good line in it. It centers around a baseball game among the crew-members, and while Captain Sisko...
Disney\'s The Princess and the Frog
"If I Can Mince, You Can Dance"You worry in the first few minutes of Disney's new 2-D animation musical "The Princess and the Frog" (directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, and loosey based—very, very loosely based, as in the Disney tradition—...
Don\'t Make a Scene: Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Story: There's one section of this script by Michael Wilson that cracks me up every time—the descriptive line for Dr. Zaius: "His face is a mask..."No kidding?Wilson's re-write of Rod Serling's initial story drafts is a deft melding of the two ...
Personal Heroes: Stanley Kubrick
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better...
The Blind Side
"98% Protective InstinctsThe true story of All-American Michael Oher is the very stuff of feel-good uplifting movies. Impoverished son of a crack-addict mother and disappearing father gets a break by being so damned good at sports that a religious p...
Everybody\'s Fine
"But the Film? N'yeah, Not So Much!"Widower Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) has a big family reunion planned when all the kids at the last minute cancel. Assuming, as do we, that they're just avoiding seeing "the old man," he packs his bags, his keys an...
