Movies

For those of you in the midst of NaNoWriMo and for the rest of us in the midst of writing anything, here is J.J. Abrams talking about the blank page as the ultimate “mystery box” and how technology inspires him. What mystery boxes are you creating for your audience? Enjoy! And, yes, I’m aware that these TED Tuesdays are being posted on Wednesday lately but, hey, it’s still Tuesday in the States and, frankly, all my days run together till Superman is still home when... More...

This is how you make a movie about coming to terms with  disability into a gripping, edge-of-the-seat action flick. This is how you make a movie about a shoot-em-up bank heist into a subtle study of humanity. This is how you make a movie. Writer/Director: Scott Frank Main Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode Overall Rating:... More...

That’s my last comment about the golden, glistening abs in the movie (seriously, at one point I thought I was looking at shields in the distance – it was their abs!) Enough has been said about the abs elsewhere, in fact they and the ‘HooHah’-ing pretty much dominated most of the pre-release reviews. I suspect I know why…... More...

I was going to write a review of Sin City which is yet another totally shallow, in fact empty, group of characters a la Mr. & Mrs. Smith but my husband wrote his first and it covers everything I was going to cover (he reads every screenwriting book I bring home so it really does) and, since he is a collector of comics and a Miller fan, he can... More...

We are big War of the Worlds fans in our house and not just of the book – Jeff Wayne’s Rock Musical Version often blares from the speakers (nice and loud so as to cover up our voices as we sing along) so, I had thought a lot about how it would be adapted to a modern Hollywood blockbuster because it wasn’t going to be easy. When... More...

Mini-spoilers ahead.Michael and I felt like a light action flick (as we often do) and decided to see Mr. & Mrs.. We laughed quite a bit but were basically left feeling pretty cold about the experience and as I thought about it, I realised that its very shallowness may actually mark it as a watershed in the psychology of the anti-hero – if... More...