Archive for May, 2008
The Normal Guy’s 50-Or-Less-Word Plot: A documentary about how two high school English teachers test themselves and their students in a staging of Thornton Wilder’s ”Our Town”.
Scott Hamilton Kennedy directs this documentary about English teacher Catherine Borek and a group of students from Dominguez High School in Compton, California, and their staging of [...]
In 1963, a British outfit called Granada Television commissioned a film
about a group of children born in 1956. The children came from the upper and lower classes of British society. Generally they were asked about their plans and dreams, what they thought of boys or girls. The
idea was to revisit them every seven years and [...]
So I was in Phoenix about three weeks ago. I went out to meet the limo and up walks Mike Tyson the pugilistic Ear-Eater.
He was traveling with somebody else. We looked at each other and I
didn’t place him right away, holding his gaze until it registered. By
that time he was getting into a black Mercedes [...]
50-Word-or-Less Plot: In some unnamed area is the Zone. It is a strange place cordoned off by barbed wire and soldiers. The stalker gets up from bed and over the objections of his wife, leads a group of people into the Zone and into the Room where one’s hopes are realized.
The Stalker (ALEKSANDR [...]
50-Word-or-Less Plot: Documentary of suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, CA) in 2004.
This average guy wants you to know right up front this movie contains disturbing scenes of suicide. Twenty-four suicides occurred at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. Eric Steel directs this graphic and somewhat dispassionate documentary about the suicides. His cameras [...]
50-Word Plot: Rising country music star Johnny Cash (JOAQUIN PHOENIX) contends with fame and drug addiction as he pursues his career and his on-again-off-again touring partner June Carter (REESE WITHERSPOON).
James Mangold (3:10 TO YUMA; KATE AND LEOPOLD, GIRL INTERRUPTED, IDENTITY) directs this biopic about the “Man in Black”, Johnny Cash. It centers on Johnny Cash’s [...]
Matt Mahurin, music video guy, is cinematographer, editor and director of this documentary. “I Like Killing Flies” is a quick portrait of Kenny Shopsin, who is the owner of the Greenwich Village eatery bearing his name. Mahurin, shot this about 80-minute film on video and it looks that way. He must have spent $10 to [...]
Story: A bunch of seemingly self-involved 20-somethings try to survive when a monster attacks Manhattan.
Jason (MIKE VOGEL) and his friend Lily Ford (JESSICA LUCAS) throw a party for Jason’s brother Rob (MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID) who is moving from Manahttan to somewhere in Japan. It starts out as a good party and jason gives a video [...]
Warm night in Phoenix.
He walked slow with a blank stare;
Greatness with big loss.
So I was on a flight to Phoenix on Thursday evening and I got to see this movie. I didn’t even have to buy a headset for $5 because my own worked. Ain’t that sweet?
I think this is a remake of the British comedy ‘Hot Money’. It is about three women working at the Federal [...]
