question of the day: So, why Superman, anyway?
How can Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan make Superman relevant for today? What would a Supeman for the 2010’s look and feel like?
Month: October 2010
deep thought (re Tyler Clementi and Anderson Cooper)
Imagine the power of Anderson Cooper opening his nightly CNN newscast like this: ‘I’m proud to say that I am a gay man, and so I have a personal appreciation of the hell that Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi went through before he committed suicide.’
three movies in a day…
I know it sounds like a treat, but three movies in a day is exhausting. Especially when the short amount of time in between each screening is spent in the following exhausting endeavors…
tres cool: ‘Star Wars’ propaganda posters
Loose lips sink starships…
watch it: Disney anti-Nazi propaganda “Education For Death”
From Walt Disney. Because you can trust The Mouse to look at current events and politics with an unvarnished, objective eye. Those darn Nazis, ruining all of Disney’s cartoons!
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “The War of Art” by Paul Cornell
I think I want to hear more — and in a story for adults, a story not suitable for children — about the summer of 1966 and the Doctor’s adventures with Andy Warhol…
trailer break: ‘Secretariat’
Nice horsie. Pretty horsie. Fast horsie.
question of the day: What films deal well with teenage boys and sex?
There are, of course, many many Hollywood movies about adolescent boys, but they tend to be extremely shallow and focused only on what boys are “supposed” to want — to be totally focused on nothing but getting with a ‘hot’ girl at the expense of all else — and almost totally ignoring the emotional side of the equation.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Social Network’
In The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg invents Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, only to have all his friends and enemies sue him claiming he stole their ideas. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Let Me In’
In Let Me In, a child vampire (Chloe Grace Moretz) befriends a child nonvampire (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and violence and bloodshed ensues. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
