This is the first movie to which I took both my 2 year old daughter and my 4 year old son. My daughter made it through most of it before fading a little in the last 20 minutes. My wife ran off with her and I stayed behind with my son. He, for anything wrong with this movie, certainly stayed engaged from front to end – even if he was upset that the minions were spending so much time trying to make bad people like them.
Recently went back through the first three TERMINATOR films. Didn’t have the new one in mind, but it turns out that it’s good to have them fresh when considering this newest – fifth – film in the series. Seems like a series that will not ever really go away, so is this installment a sign of a rebirth or merely a rehash?
I usually don’t let a Pixar film get too far out in front before I go see it. While I still haven’t gotten around to MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, I was certainly excited to go see the newest animated film from the kings of the genre.
Back in the mid 2000s, I was working for a talent agency which repped actors and writers/directors. I got to work on the writers/directors side much more than the actors (though I ran the mailroom for awhile which had me more on the actors side) and have enjoyed seeing some of those people make their way. Wes Ball was one of those guys. I probably only spoke with him a handful of times, but remember him as a nice guy. I was glad to see he got a shot at directing a franchise, even if MAZE RUNNER seems – on the surface – to be derivative of something like THE HUNGER GAMES. I can certainly watch the movie without bias, but it is nice to generally see good people have success.
Snuck in a movie late last night which had been sitting on my DVR for awhile. MARLOWE is a movie about the private detective from the mind of Raymond Chandler, most famously played in film by Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film THE BIG SLEEP. I’m a sucker for these kind of movies, so I’m always happy to give one a go when the opportunity arises.
Still doing the school gig, acting in a show, and have a second family living with us this summer. Things have been busy, and my movie watching has taken a dive in the last few weeks. Fortunately, I have a LEPRECHAUN in the bag. This appeared over at The IPC for his semi-annual celebration of terrible movies. It’s been there for a bit, so I figured it’s safe to repost it here now.
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I’ve been working on a production of Chekov’s The Seagull up here in Maine where the entire cast and crew decided to put together a screening of Jurassic World. It was a fun way to watch this summer popcorn flick, and a good time was had by all.
A documentary about casting directors doesn’t seem the most interesting film at first glance. Having worked at an agency and seen the representation side of the casting equation, I thought it might be interesting to see something on how the other half thinks. What I didn’t expect, and what I was pleasantly surprised by, is that this is a film as much about 50s-70s cinema structure as it is about casting directors.
TRANSCENDENCE sounded like an interesting movie. It wasn’t received well, per se, in theaters and it didn’t hit the public like a ball of fire. Because of that, I sort of forgot about it. It dropped on HBO unceremoniously and I almost missed it. But, again, I come back to it being a movie which sounded interesting. So, I did what I do… I watched it.
I almost watched this film a couple of times, but the fund footage thing is one that makes me more and more hesitant. Turns out this is not your typical found footage film but is, instead, a faux-documentary. That may seem a simple distinction, but it is important one because LAKE MUNGO is nothing like a BLAIR WITCH type movie.
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