“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.” ~ Newt, Aliens Sigourney Weaver sure knows how to stuff a stocking. Her daughter Charlotte, 19, got a surprise Christmas present: the four Alien films on blu-ray. ‚ÄúShe has never seen them before, believe it or not,‚Äù explains the 60-year-old...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Reality is something different to everyone. For most of us, it means the drudgery of every day life. For three male characters reality is something you escape from. A fantasy life is far preferable because you are someone else in it. You are a man who has a lame job but who has so many business miles and executive status you start to think you really are someone special....
I felt that I sort of owed you dear readers some explanation as to why I believe Avatar is such a good film. I jotted down a few thoughts and hopefully this will explain it. Haters, feel free to move on to the next post. Hasn’t it been a while since anyone has really understood what that phrase meant, “the magic of cinema?” It has been too long for me.¬†...
Steve Pond lays it out once more for those of us who are having a hard time getting it (raises hand): The math is simple: You take the number of nominations up for grabs, add one, and use the resulting number to divide the number of votes. Then you add one, or any fraction of one. For instance, if you have 5,500 Best Picture ballots and you’re looking for 10 nominees,...
If there is one thing that has continually annoyed me throughout the decade I’ve been covering the Oscar race it’s people who pretend to know more than they actually do. So a lot of huffing and puffing over at the Huffington Post about that Avatar screening. “It wasn’t how I saw it,” crows Robert J. Elisberg, columnist and screenwriter....
Via IndieWire, where the criteria are helpfully outlined: “accomplishments of considerable merit; influences with either a positive or negative impression; trends, either new or re-emerging; anniversaries or memorials of special note; and/or movements in new technologies, education, preservation, government or other areas that impact the art film, television and...
Some of you who saw Sherlock Holmes over the weekend might agree with me that the teaser for Inception was the best 80 seconds on screen all evening. A grainy French copy made a brief appearance last week before it was expunged from the net. Thanks to Kevin for tipping purists to the official QuickTime page, and to Alex at FirstShowing, master of the dark art of embedding. ...