Thus far Daniel Craig’s James Bond films – Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace – have been a mixed bag. While the former was a successful reinvention of agent 007 the latter threw most of those intriguing concepts away in favor of a humdrum story about water being our most precious resource. However, despite the […]
Frame of Mind
The Complicated Praise for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cult Creation ‘The Master’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master,’ based on the history of Scientology, stays with you, haunts you, and inevitably never completely leaves your subconscious.
Film Rave: On Morality, Romance, and Truth in The Words (Dir. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal 2012)
A writer’s words can project their soul onto the page, for the world to embrace, admonish, or when such words reveal a love story beyond measure to provoke a wealth of emotion. Passing off another’s work as your own is the cruelest act a writer can commit; in The Words, Bradley Cooper’s character Rory Jansen […]
Thoughts, Theory, and Lore with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
**SPOILER ALERT** –The following piece contains spoilers, lots of spoilers, about “Prometheus” (2012, Ridley Scott). If you have not seen the film I highly suggest you avoid reading any further. What you will find below are my own personal thoughts, conjectures, and to be completely honest, fan-girl ramblings that may, or may not, make any […]
Film Rant: Hide Away (Dir. Chris Eyre 2011)
Hide Away is the simple story of a man who buys an old ship and fixes it. Even the main characters are simply named the Young Mariner (Josh Lucas), The Ancient Mariner (James Cromwell), and The Waitress (Ayelet Zuerer). The movie is not so much concerned with complicated plot lines as it is with the […]
