Thanks to services such as those offered by direct TV and Netflix, people are enjoying new movies at home almost immediately after the movies leave the theaters. While in the past we all had to wait for sometimes as many as six months to enjoy home viewing after a movie left the theaters, it is becoming increasingly easy to simulate a theater experience in the living room. With this in mind, this … [Read more...]
For the germophobes and OCD among us, it's a nightmare scenario. A super-strain of some mutated virus turns lethal, making those microscopic organisms constantly surrounding us more than a mere wintertime annoyance that gives you a sore throat and a stuffy nose. Suddenly, the most mundane everyday objects have been transformed into conduits of death. The metallic shopping cart handle at the local … [Read more...]
This may turn out to be rather heavy on the spoilers by the time I'm done. I'm not sure though. I haven't decided. You've been warned. The best thing about Philip K. Dick is not that he's a great writer, put together volumes of wildly creative stories, or anything else often associated with his name. No, what was really brilliant about him was that he knew what science-fiction was for. Perhaps … [Read more...]
Hereafter is a curious look at mediums, the afterlife, and theoretically life, that has such a broad, hopeless effort at its core, that most audiences will be left wondering what they are meant to get from it. Whatever one comes away with, it's hard to say that Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood give less than solid turns in their roles as actor and director, but whether or not that ultimately amounts … [Read more...]
I doubt that during the first meetings about making a movie revolving around Nelson Mandela taking office and looking for national pride via rugby a lot of the talk focused on the myriad ways such a film could go wrong. Those who make such movies generally cannot even fathom the idea of it going wrong. The wildly overpraised Precious is in a similar realm. “But, it’s a movie about…,” and … [Read more...]
You may be familiar with the true story of Mark Whitacre, and that may detract from The Informant!'s potential on several fronts. First, you may be inclined to avoid a film that details the events of a whistleblower in a giant corporate entity he accuses of price fixing, simply because... well, how interesting is that? Second, you may know how things turn out, and with most of the plot in hand, … [Read more...]
I doubt that during the first meetings about making a movie revolving around Nelson Mandela taking office and looking for national pride via rugby a lot of the talk focused on the myriad ways such a film could go wrong. Those who make such movies generally cannot even fathom the idea of it going wrong. The wildly overpraised Precious is in a similar realm. "But, it's a movie about...," and that's … [Read more...]
