Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been out for a few weeks, and I’ve taken some time off around the holidays, I thought I would add to the ever-growing list of masses who feel compelled to wax on the merits and faults of the latest entry into the Star Wars pantheon. Something you …
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My Top 5 Science Fiction Films of All Time
Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s a little movie coming out this weekend called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I love the Star Wars series. The first film came out when I was 6-years old. I had all of the toys when I was a kid. I used to have marathon sessions where I would watch …
PIXAR: The Home of the Road Movie
I saw Disney/PIXAR’s The Good Dinosaur earlier this week and it reaffirmed a problem that I’ve been having with PIXAR’s films for the past several years. PIXAR is now the home of the road movie. Avid followers of this blog will know that I am not a fan of the Road Movie. I find that …
Mad Max: Fury Road – Crazy Excitement and Surprisingly Well-Developed Characters
I saw Mad Max: Fury Road last night and I found it highly entertaining with a lot of intense action, superb visuals, and an exciting and well-paced narrative. And to be perfectly honest, I was expecting to get all of that so I wasn’t surprised at all that I did. What did surprise me, however, …
DreamWorks’ Home Is a Perfect Film for the Family
First off, I need to give out a full disclosure that I work for DreamWorks Animation, and I did a limited amount of work on Home over the past couple of years. That said, it’s a terrific family film that younger children especially will adore. Jim Parsons has a voice and a delivery that is …
My Top 5 Foodie Movies
I am a foodie. If you put something in front of me and tell me it’s food, I will eat it. Food might be the only thing besides my family that I love as much as movies. So when food and movies come together, it’s something that I cannot miss. There is something about showing …
Cabaret: Another example of Storytelling Sans Dialogue
There are many devices in the toolbox of a screenwriter that allow him or her to reveal major story points or character revelations without the use of dialogue. One such device is Planting and Payoff. Planting and Payoff is the technique where the writer plants an idea or a conflict or a prop or some …
The Wolf of Wall Street: Over the Top and Ostentatious, But That’s the Point
I saw The Wolf of Wall Street earlier this week, and have been wanting to blog about it since. I’ve not read any other reviews of it, but anecdotally, the people whom I know that have seen it felt it to be over the top and ostentatious. I have to agree with them after seeing …
Frozen: The Good and the Not-As-Good
I finally saw Frozen last night and I found it to be entertaining with magnificent art direction, a stunning production design and beautiful animation. As they always do, even when the story isn’t great, the artists at Disney produced work that is really second to none. While this film has a good story, however, I …
Today’s Question: Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?
This has been going around in my circle the past couple of years, and I’ve been hearing it even more this year. There is a cantankerous debate going around about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. On the surface it seems like a ridiculous debate to have, but it does stir up questions about …