This is one of those movies that would have been better off as an independent film rather than trying to fit into the Children of the Corn franchise. It has elements of Children of the Corn but doesn't feel like a Children of the Corn movie. It was fun seeing Billy Drago in this, ...
And second, taking this piece of advice from Faith: The pace of our prose in writing such scenes is the literary equivalent of a musical score in a movie. Just as during action scenes in movies, the music gets percussive and clipped and dramatic, so when writing these scenes we should ma...
The best movies have character actors who offer layered performances.The dragnet copsounding narrator also didn't really work for me. A little too droll by half. And I must say that I'm growing very weary of the show-ending-intercut-montage-sequence-with-voice-over device that every ...
Determining cross-language language proficiency in bilingual children is not trivial, however: various assessments have been used (e.g., MLU, vocabulary knowledge, parent ratings), each with their own limitations. Moreover, the relationship between language proficiency and language dominance is a compl...
The Children of Huang Shi: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh. About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orp
However, the story with its wonderful concept left me transfixed throughout. As for it being slow, I got the impression it was meant to be slow to add to its haunting atmosphere. Also Children of Men is one of those movies I think that you need to see more than once to truly ...
MOST of you know me from our endless Social-Media platform (I am on 15 of them) discussions ormy items here at TLB(and/or elsewhere) and know I disdain Govt interference, but are we NOT at a time where an Associationmust be mandatedto Rate books like Movies (withMPAAdesignations backed...
For all that it was a ratings hit, Married with Children was the opposite of a critical darling, and that viewpoint was also present during awards season. Ed O'Neill certainly wasn't ignorant of that, and here's his rather pragmatic way of describing what feelings were about the s...
RatingsShow all Sort byFeatured 6/10 Suffer the little children Slow but powerful and earnest piece decrying child labor. As the factory owners live a life of ease and short takes, the workers -- including children -- suffer a life of hardship and long takes. Look for future star director...
Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ Denis Villeneuve has been quite vocal about his intention to make a third “Dune” movie, which would be based on Frank Herbert’s second novel...