All Entries in the "Movie Reviews" Category
Tales From The Script – A must watch for all screenwriters
The documentary, Tales From The Script, is not something you watch once. The more I get to see the faces of the writers who have so inspired me to write my own stories, well, the more inspired I get. It’s not just the tips and tricks of how to navigate Hollywood, but even more so [...]
Victoria Alexander – Bedeviled Film Critic – 7.25-8.7.03
Victoria Alexander-Bedeviled Film Critic-7.25-8.7.03
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo come pretty close to my quest for the Holy Grail of screenwriting: what is a story? But, it comes with a few reservations. I know what this movie is about. I know what the story is. I can tell you the story in a few [...]
The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada Devil Wears Prada is a wonderful movie (with greater percentage of credit going to Meryl Streep). If there ever was a movie to serve as a model for how to introduce a character, this is it. We immediately know who Miranda Priestly (Streep) is by the sheer terror she evokes in [...]
The Family Stone
The Family Stone I have to see this movie again because I didn’t remember much of it even days after having seen it, and I don’t know if I liked it or not. It’s a culture clash theme, New York Type A business woman meets bohemian. I also don’t know why I don’t like Sarah [...]
Speed
Speed This is not a review. it’s a synopsis. Now i don’t know if after writing or shooting the film, at the point where everyone is off the bus and the bus rams into the plane, if the writer or director realized they have another 20 minutes of film left and didn’t know what to [...]
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Ah, how Darth Vader came to be, perhaps the most infamous villian in all movie history. Creating a character like Darth Vader calls to mind the 100s of recognizable characters created throughout the history of fiction, TV and film. I wouldn’t say we know these characters [...]
Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown It is now official. I am in complete disagreement with the critics featured on Rotten Tomatoes almost all the time. I would really like to launch into a critique of critics, but I’ll save it for an Any Movie comment. Hollywood knows how to pick a star. Not to sound self-contradictory, but there are [...]
Critics: One Step Away from Gossip
Critics: One Step Away From Gossip I’ve personally known movie critics. And the one thing that amazed me was that they had never worked on a set, never written a screenplay, never worked in Hollywood. And the worst thing, was that they wrote movie reviews because they couldn’t get jobs writing anything else. AND, they [...]
61 (the movie)
61 I’m not much of a sports fan. Winning a game is not my idea of triumph. Neither is war for that matter. In fact, to be triumphant is not much in my books. I got a problem with dividing people into winners and losers. Realistically, we are. We’re split right down the middle. And [...]
