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Trailing the Life of Pi
YEARS AGO I READ AN ARTICLE about movies that hate their audiences. It was around the year 2000, and there had been a string of quality, thoughtful movies: The Matrix, Fight Club, Memento, and especially The Six Sense. All of … Continue reading
Joss Whedon Says the Darndest Things
I’VE BEEN A JOSS WHEDON FAN for a while now. Firefly then Buffy then Dollhouse. The Avengers? I was one of those that saw it not so much as “hopefully the best Marvel movie ever” but as “Joss Whedon’s best … Continue reading
Movies, Movies, Movies
WE’RE HALFWAY THROUGH 2012, and so the question of the quality of movies out this year has popped up over at Grantland. It’s been a good six months for me and the movies, really. I’ve only seen a tiny handful … Continue reading
Monsters (go to) University
JUST IN TIME FOR this weekend’s release of Brave, Disney-Pixar has released a teaser trailer for Monsters University. When Monsters Inc came out, I had no real sense of what the movie was to be about, and I was genuinely … Continue reading
The Emotional Make-Up of Muppets
ONE OF THE HIGH POINTS of last year’s The Muppets movie (and there were many), was the song between Walter and Gary, “Man or Muppet.” It was an Oscar-winning song (admittedly in a slow music year), but it was also … Continue reading
A Titanic Movie I Might Actually See
with apologies to Kathy I HOLD IT AS A PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT that I have not seen the movie Titanic. It’s just one of those things, really, that you make a “cause” out of almost after the fact. I never had any … Continue reading
Telling Stories Again
TAKING GOOD MOVIES FOR GRANTED is easy in the winter months, when the Oscar race is heating up and so many major artists have great working coming to the silver screen. In the glut of greatness, some films go unnoticed, … Continue reading
The Hunger Games and the Importance of Story
I SAW a former student in the theater lobby in my way to see The Hunger Games. When her mother asked if I had read the books, the graduate proudly proclaimed that I was the kind of reader “who didn’t … Continue reading
Two Things I Learned On Jump Street
MORE GOES ON in the newest iteration of 21 Jump Street than car chases, drug busts, and shoot outs. The show-now-movie has at least two interesting ideas that it plays around with that struck me as well-handled after viewing. The … Continue reading
Spring Sprang Sprung
JUST BECAUSE you have two weeks off for spring break doesn’t mean every day feels like “spring break.” While I’ve enjoyed each day of my break so far, a good bit of each day has gone to more serious, solitary, … Continue reading
