Archive for April, 2007
Cinemagluttony…
April 29th, 2007
After enjoying Hot Fuzz for a Friday morning matinee, my wife and I ran to the store to pick up some Danish for a party the next day. We managed to get from the multiplex to the store and back again before seeing our next movie, conveniently titled Next. As the movie started, with Nicolas Cage looking [...]
Man in a Hole: Who Throws the Rope?
April 21st, 2007
CRACKING THE SECRET OF MOVIES AND NARRATIVE
There’s something that makes me laugh harder than watching Will Ferrell and Jon Heder ice skate, a ridiculous line that I hope isn’t spoken while I’m drinking, lest the tasty beverage finds its way out my nostrils. The hilarious comment is often spoken by jaded movie critics or entertainment-saturated [...]
The Story of Story…
April 14th, 2007
“I wanted to believe, more than most I wanted to be like a child again.”
Cleveland Heep discovers that beyond the veil of his mundane and humdrum life is a world of myth and fantasy, a true myth that overlies his own, a spiritual world with great consequence to our lives, to our future.
Overlooked in [...]
Passion Points
April 8th, 2007
My wife loves lists.
Not just any lists, mind you, but particularly ones that boast the “Top” something or other; the “Top 10 Deadliest Animals” on Animal Planet, the “Top 25 videos that defined the 80s” on VH1, or the “Top 10 Worst films of 2004″ (remember Catwoman? Halle Berry wishes you didn’t). It hardly matters [...]