James Cameron is an easy target. Why? He makes himself an easy target. He delivers Oscar speeches like this. He apparently inflicts a sort of borderline torture on his actors (at least according to Kate Winslet, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ed Harris, Sigourney Weaver and…well, I guess anyone that’s made a movie with him). He makes [...]

I’ve taken a sort of vacation from the blog recently. Well, not a vacation exactly, but with the addition of Mark & Keath (and Desiree in the New Year) I’ve felt less inclined to make a mad dash through my inbox to find something interesting. I think it’s beneficial because it’s slowing me down a [...]

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When a movie is as built-up as Where The Wild Things Are, it’s difficult to approach it without preconceptions as well as misconceptions. Especially when said movie is based on a sparsely written children’s story that had a significant impact on several generations of children, many of whom are now adults of varying ages that [...]

It’s easy to dismiss film trailers as a simple marketing tool, something to entice bodies into the theatre but easily forgotten once the actual film has arrived. Not true in my book! Trailers are an art form in many ways. I still enjoy watching trailers to films I’ve seen dozens of times. I’m often taken [...]

I’ve been going over my thoughts on Director’s Cuts. Usually, these fall under a similar category to deleted scenes – they don’t add much to the existing work (sometimes significantly subtracting from what’s otherwise a tightly plotted movie), and in many cases it’s self-evident why they ended up deleted in the first place. Directors often [...]

I’ve been in a wee bit of a funk lately. Not a life funk, necessarily, it’s more of a recreational funk. By that I mean, my recreation activities have not been particularly varied. See a movie, get a meal, see a movie, get a meal. Sometimes, you just need to break out and do something [...]

I was listening to Polly Scattergood the other day, and ‘Unforgiving Arms’ came on. I really love the song, but it suddenly occurred to me that Polly sounded like someone else. I couldn’t quite pinpoint who, but I definitely got a familiar vibe from her vocals. It all came together when I read a post [...]