Come away, o human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand…
From the Stars (Oscar Predictions – Best Actor/Best Actress)
Alrighty, after that brief moment of sharing a touch of my personal life with y’all, allow me to get back to the Oscar shenanigans at hand. The big dogs are up today – here are my thoughts on the race for Best Actor and Best Actress.Ladies first, as the old saying goes. This year, the…
Back to Basics – MANHATTAN
The city Woody Allen wrote about no longer exists. It has been gentrified, homogenized, sanitized, and Disneyfied. At one point in the film while watching a historic building get gutted, Isaac says that the city is really changing. Well if he thought that was change, I wonder what he’d even recognize the city to come sixteen years later.
IT’S COMPLICATED
No matter how much time passes or how well you know the other person, love never gets less complicated.
THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Wes still has daddy issues, but now they’re a bit more animated.
JULIE & JULIA
WARNING: DO NOT WATCH THIS MOTION PICTURE ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
Creature – THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX Trailer
So, we have Tim Burton covering Lewis Carroll with ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Then there’s Spike Jonze putting a spin on Maurice Sendak’s WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Think that’s it for auteurs covering children’s literature? think again. Here’s Wes Anderson giving the world another dose of Roald Dahl (author of James and The Giant Peach…