The Screen Actor’s Guild is on the verge a strike, much like the writers last year. At issue is the amount of compensation actors receive from digital/internet medium revenues collected by the studios. Standard contracts were written before the internet was a mass medium and the actors want the terms adjusted. They feel the studios [...]
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Yet Another Format, Blu-ray
December 20, 2008
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I’ve had all the home video formats. It started with the Sony Betamax, then quickly moved to VHS, as the electronics company JVC won that war. Marketers take note, never use the word Beta in the name of your product. From my perspective Beta was superior to VHS in almost every way. Then Laser Disk [...]
Read moreThrough a Glass and Darkly – Veterans Day
November 11, 2008
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Today, Veterans Day, is a day to reflect and appreciate the countless citizens who served or are now serving our country in military uniform. My father and his brother were in the Navy in WWII, having enlisted right after Pearl Harbor. Dad served in the Pacific Theater and was involved in numerous battles from his [...]
Read morePaul Newman – Icon of the Screen is Dead at 83
September 27, 2008
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My earliest memory of Paul Newman was in 1967 when my family was on our annual summer vacation at my Uncle’s lake house in Michigan. It was a small city that had only one movie theater. They were screening Cool Hand Luke that July, and I remember it well, “What we have here is a [...]
Read moreRemembering September 11, 2001
September 11, 2008
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The towers have been gone for seven years now, and with them over 3,000 who lost their lives there, at the Pentagon and in the Pennsylvania plane crash. They are sorely missed. Many others suffered injuries that day and survived. What to do with that sacred ground in New York has been the topic of [...]
Read moreDon LaFontaine, Voice of the Movies is Dead
September 3, 2008
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We all know the voice. It’s the one you hear when you’re sitting in a darkened movie theater waiting for the feature presentation to begin. The trailers for coming attractions are projected and so is that voice. Deep, diction perfect, clear like a galloping horse in the night, cutting through the lighting fast visuals and [...]
Read moreThe Power of Film – Pangea Day 2008
July 7, 2008
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Pangea means entire earth. The supercontinent of 250 million years ago before the land masses separated into today’s configuration. At that time the world was one. Today it’s still one, of course, and we are all of the human race. But we have so far to go when it comes to tolerance, understanding and embracing [...]
Read moreNo Country For Old Men – You Can’t Stop What’s Coming
April 12, 2008
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A brief forewarning. Some people may find this post to be a little on the dark side. Just remember, I’m writing about the movies. None of these things really happened. On screen killings are nothing new. How many times have you seen someone get rubbed out in a movie? Probably too many to count. The [...]
Read moreElizabeth: The Golden Age – Film Review
March 30, 2008
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Elizabeth the 1st has been endlessly studied from all angles. Historians, novelists, biographers and of course filmmakers. Arguably, no one knows as much about the psyche and behavior of Elizabeth than the academy award-winning actress Cate Blanchett. Playing her first in the 1998 film Elizabeth, and continuing her interpretation in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Photo [...]
Read moreDr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who – Film Review
March 22, 2008
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It’s not that easy to find a theatrical release suitable for a 3 year old. But it was Good Friday, we weren’t working or schooling, and determined to go to the show. So we navigated our way through a spring snowstorm to see Hollywood’s latest attempt to bring a Dr. Seuss story to the big [...]
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