In Seattle for work this week and was able to make some time to visit the Star Trek 50th Anniversary Exhibit at the EMP Museum. The display is fantastic, with Paramount opening up their archives to showcase props and costumes…
When I graduated high school, my first real job was at a record store. Disc Jockey Records, part of the Kentucky-based chain owned by WaxWorks Inc., was opening a new location at the newly refurbished Eastwood Mall located just outside…
I don’t want to die. I also know that as much as I don’t want that to pass, it will happen. And it will happen to you, too. When I was younger, the idea that the people I idolized would…
No, because of the wonderful system called Hollywood Accounting. Studios have been sued – repeatedly – around this practice, the most famous suit where this was a factor being Buchwald v. Paramount, which had Art Buchwald suing the studio who…
(The bulk of my answer is derived from the books, not the movies). Bond and Bourne come from a place that most of us never have to deal with – a space where danger and or death is right around…
I’m going to an express a contrarian view to this question (most movie fans will scream “OF COURSE YOU MUST”): It depends. Do you like black and white movies? Can you pay attention to a movie that does not have…
I just discovered this, and it’s wonderful. Warren Beatty made the Dick Tracy movie for Disney in 1990, and he REALLY loved doing it. So much so, that for the past few years he has been talking about doing a…
I’m an obsessive Apeophile. I adore the original Planet of the Apes films, flaws and all. When I was a child they played the films on Saturday afternoons and it was the first exposure I had to “unhappy endings”… and…
I think Marlon Brando is Loki. When I state that, I don’t mean that Marlon Brando should have PLAYED Loki, in some crazy imaginary never-produced Marvel movie – I mean that at some level Brando WAS Loki: The Norse God…
As most people who read a blog like this knows, the new Star Wars film opened to a colossal amount of tickets sold – $250 million in the US, and $500 million dollars worldwide, and that was just during the…
I have a love-hate relationship with bad movies. For one thing, life is too short. I have SO many movies in my queue – good movies, CLASSIC movies – that the idea of watching a movie like, say, Death Wish…
I took a quick trip to Disneyland this past weekend with two of my sons – it was an early Christmas present for all of us. One of our “must-see” destination at the park was the Star Wars Launch Bay,…
Yes, it is his real name. The movie Skyfall pretty much killed off the theory that it is a “code name” given to agents, because it shows him looking at his parents graves at Skyfall. Ironically, the parody film version…
I really want to like John Carpenter’s The Fog. I really do. I’m a huge fan of the filmmaker, and will praise his artistry and imagination to anyone who will listen (I am a staunch defender of his underrated Price…
Not with any major studio, for a number of reasons. The first major reason is the media environment is much different now – Orson Welles was very very “hot” at the time from his work on radio and stage acting…
Yes, but he didn’t like to talk about it much. He thought the film had been over analyzed, and also wanted to be recognized for his other films as well. Ask him about Touch of Evil, or Mr. Arkadin, or…