Sebastian Stanplayed our sympathetic Mad Hatter, known as Jefferson in both worlds, and I choose to believe that this name was picked wholly because of the association betweenJefferson Airplaneand their trippy song "White Rabbit," based on theAlice in Wonderlandtales. In Fairytale Land, he was...
Sheila writes: Pardis Parker's “The Dance” is a 10-minute short film that just won the Best Comedy from the National Screen Institute of Canada. Parker is the lead actor as well as the director and writer here, and the entire thing is done silent movie style. I love the detail he...
you won’t. The design of the airplanes in this movie is its single, lonely, redeeming facet. Everything else is surprisingly boring, given the fact that the movie cost a reported $17 million to make. The plot involves aerial battles in World War I, but the dialogue rolls along at ...
Garland, Judy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, We're Off to see the Wizard (all from her part as "Dorothy" in the Wizard of Oz - see my Wizard of Oz movie Soundtrack entry, below) Gaynor, Glori - I will Survive Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yo...
(Ashton Sanders) continues to deal with his difficult life. The third part is Black, the adult (Trevante Rhodes) who thinks he’s figured out his path. The movie also stars Duan Sanderson, Jharrel Jerome, and André Holland in these segments. Despite the three lead actors over time, the...
Going a week or two over to 8 weeks is quite common. Usually graduate schools are quite understanding of the situation of "I'm almost done", and in many cases, the graduate school will give a short extension to aid the student with harsh deadlines. ...
It can be done. But that does not mean it is easy. Gameau speaks to us from an airplane, where he ruefully acknowledges the carbon footprint of making the film itself (offset, as we learn before the movie begins, with contributions), and the cup he is drinking water from "that will ...
seeing this movie, it has to be because we will never again have the shock of this material seeming new. “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” now more than ever, seems a turning point in the cinema of escapist entertainment, and there was really no way Spielberg could make it new all over ...
despite the fact that every scene takes place in the office and there is not a single overt sexual act or word or gesture or reference. Sexuality in the movie's terms is transferred into the power of one person over another; Amelie begins by adoring Fubuki, but eventually realizes that the...
) Wise is joined by a scientist whose lazily written dialogue is also an audience pander. I missed the overcomplicated science gobbledygook these characters spout. That element of fun is missing from “Big Ass Spider!” I’m still not sure how the damn thing got into the body it explodes ...