Innocence Transforms Intransigence: A Cinematic Childhood and Young Adulthood of My Pop Cultural Own
I was never a toddler who appreciated the bombastic yet heart-pounding sights and sounds of the quinessential moviegoing experience. On a simpler note, I was afraid to go to the movies because of the loud sounds and sometimes dizzying visuals.
But, with my utmost reluctance, my adventurous family took me to ...
Cartoons For Grown Ups - The Adult Swim Nation
When I was a kid, cartoons were just that, cartoons. They were semi-mindless drivel that served the purpose keeping kids under control for the few hours between school and dinner. Then came along a few enterprising geniuses who changed all that. Matt Groening and Mike Judge are two of the ...
Making Macbeth Modern in Scotland, PA
From the early days of the Middle Ages, one thing has been a constant in our outlook the world. There’s one thing that very few English speaking inhabitants of the world can’t claim they haven’t been affected by. Shakespeare. His varying array of work is enough to inspire and affect ...
"Prada" Boss Drives Away Everyone and Everything But Blind Ambition
The Devil Wears Prada – 2 Stars (Average)
Meryl Streep, one of Hollywood's best and most honored actresses, carries The Devil Wears Prada like the namesake handbag we see early in this movie, which is about a powerful New York fashion magazine editor and her wannabe gofer.
Streep, a graduate of Vassar ...
The Year of the Superhero
Super-heroes have not been so cool since the so-called "Golden Age" of comic books in the 1940s. Not long ago, they could be dismissed as "kids' stuff", but 2006 was a vintage year for super-heroes. Perhaps, just like in World War II, the problems of the world have reached the ...
The History of Movie Special Effects – Part I
Movie Special Effects as such had very humble beginnings. Technicians and cameraman, while tinkering with their equipment, sometimes unexpectedly came up with some new effects. For instance, film editing was supposedly invented by sheer accident. It is said that a Frenchmen named George Milies, invented (or rather discovered) editing while ...
The Little Movie That Could
As a writer, producer and director I’m always looking for ideas to develop into scripts then gather the talent to produce them. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes it’s a pain in the butt. The most important thing I have learned about movie making is that movie making is, in reality, ...
Film Review O What a Lovely War
O what a lovely war is masterpiece of satire on the futility of war. Its power as an anti war movie is not in its graphic depiction of war but in its innovative use of surrealism, satire and contrast. Throughout much of the film the tone resembles a popular Music ...
The Top Movie Review 2006
2006 was a great year for movies. I’m not sure who is going to win the academy award for best picture, but here are my personal favorites of the year.
5) The Pursuit of Happyness I’m usually not a huge fan of the “inspirational” movie genre. This one however seemed more ...
Is sharks’ strength comparable to the one seen in “Jaws” or is it another one of these shark tales?
As a child, like millions of movie goers, I remember the movie “Jaws”, the horror of its shark attacks, the fear and the strength that were related to that great white shark. Since this movie appeared on the silver screen in 1975, it changed the ways people see sharks as ...
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