From the Archive – MOVIE REVIEW – Starsky & Hutch
Originally published 3/15/04 Starsky & Hutch Director: Todd Phillips Writers: Based on characters created by William Blinn; story by Stevie Long and John O’Brien, screenplay by John O’Brien and Todd Phillips & Scott Armstrong Producers: William Blinn, Stuart Cornfeld, Akiva Goldsman, Tony Ludwig, Alan Riche Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn I [...]
From the Archive – MOVIE REVIEW – Spartan
Originally published 3/14/04 SPARTAN Director: David Mamet Writer: David Mamet Producers: Art Linson, Moshe Diamant, David Bergstein, Elie Samaha Stars: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Tia Texada As a Special Forces operative with espionage experience, tough-guy Scott (Val Kilmer) is several times called upon to exchange code phrases with people. “Get me the [...]
Coming Attractions
I am still tweaking with theme and layout here in NewWebsiteLand, but it seems like time to initiate the most laborious bit of virtual earth-moving – re-locating my archive of movie reviews. They have long been the most popular feature of my LiveJournal blog and they drew the most eyeballs/comments to the Blogspot annex I [...]
Box-Office Wrap-up – Sept. 11-13, 2009
The wisdom of where the studios choose to invest their money, project-wise, and in what amounts, is a strange sport to study. People root for the financial success or failure of movies they don’t like or haven’t even seen, without any sense of who actually made them. Maybe it is inspired by this vague hope [...]
What You Will Not See on This Blog*
(*For the most part. These things are probably understood, but since this blog is in its infancy, a few declarations of principle are appropriate.) Politics I won’t pretend I don’t have opinions, that I don’t read newspapers and blogs, or that I don’t vote. I do all those things with fervor. But I do know [...]
A notch in the belt
I wrote a 10-minute play today – truth be told I wrote half of a second on top of that. I could probably bull my way through to a “blackout” on that second one, but I believe a writer should reserve for themselves the affirmative power of the closing whistle after a respectable day’s work. [...]
Technical hoop-de-doo
My ambition is to be able to publish blog posts here and at Livejournal simultaneously, so I can start attracting eyeballs here but not deprive my longtime readers over there. It should be a fairly simple matter to do it by e-mail without the rigmarole of manually double-posting, but like most simple matters in the [...]
Greetings, program!
Welcome to my under-development website. As you can see – it’s a little bare around here right now. Things are likely to be fluky here in this one-man band for awhile, but the more I post, the more I will learn. In the upper-right hand corner you will see I have a basic bio and [...]