Zero Dark Thirty opens with actual audio of people trapped in the World Trade Center after the planes struck on September 11, 2001. Then we see words that have caused some controversy: Based on first-hand accounts of actual events. To some people, this is a proclamation that Zero Dark Thirty is virtually a documentary or…
Kiki’s Delivery Service: Magic Can’t Save the Story (Review) (via The Cinematic Katzenjammer) “A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.” Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Rated: G, 103 minutes There are two things that I love…
“Ain’t that ugly over there? We got the prettiest place on earth.” This is the first line of dialogue of Beasts of the Southern Wild, and it’s spoken by Wink to his daughter Hushpuppy as they float near the levee that separates New Orleans from “The Bathtub,” where they live. The Bathtub is like a…
I’m not going to spell out every role played by all of the very versatile and talented actors in Cloud Atlas. You can go to IMDB and learn that if you’re interested. Instead, I’m only going to outline the segments and the stars because knowing greater details will not help you understand anything any better or…
i’m trying to catch up on films regarded as some of the absolute greatest films ever, as determined by a group of people allegedly qualified to determine the absolute greatest films ever. one of those is stanley kubrick’s 2001: a space odyssey. i just watched 2001 again yesterday, and i’m browsing through certain segments right now. i don’t get…
I’ve said that there’s no reason to write a story without a plot because you literally can make a plot of anything. It’s really not hard. Why did Jeff get a wrong-number phone call asking for Kevin? Is Pat’s wife cheating on him? You don’t need anything more. Jeff, Who Lives at Home was written…
Two of the most controversial and never-endingly (?) discussed items in the last 50 years can each be summed up with three letters. UFO and JFK. Stephen King has written about many things, and although I haven’t read anything he may have written about UFO’s, he did manage to take a crack (no pun intended)…
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