When I was young, I remember having a story book of Aesop’s Fables. As I sit and write twenty-something years later, I can remember many of them, not because of the morals they taught me, but because of the interesting tales I was told. The attention to storytelling is what has begun separating the well-crafted…
When You’re Gone (Charlton Heston 1924 – 2008)
This weekend Charlton Heston passed away. He was 84. Heston actually had a hand in my evolution as a film lover. When I was younger, my taste in movies often leaned itself to the serious side. While my friends were amusing themselves silly with NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and HEATHERS, I was expanding my young…
U2-3D
As a huge fan of a largely-commercial band, you can sometimes feel like you’ve seen it all. Then you get surprised and end up seeing something special.
SWEENEY TODD
Tim Burton takes a truly grisly tale and finds a way to make it even more gruesome.
SHINE A LIGHT
Say what you will about this band being “so old” – they still put on a kick-ass show.
Love is Blindness – BLINDNESS Trailer
I must beg forgiveness for not writing lately. I’m in a new job you see, and thus a tad distracted. However with the summer movie season coming, I’m hoping to be writing far more often in the coming weeks. As a peace offering for my tardiness, I bring you a trailer for a film I’m…
ENCHANTED
An awful lot of my childhood was spent immersed in Walt Disney’s stories and movies. My bedtime picture books were all from Disney movies, and a lot of what I watched early on were Disney classics like SNOW WHITE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and PINOCCHIO (which was the first movie I ever watched on a big…