Scanned through HDNet Movie’s upcoming schedule this AM and saw that 15 MINUTES is showing later in the week. This reminded me of a story… The director of 15 MINUTES, John Herzfeld, likes to rehearse with his actors – on location – several weeks before the shoot actually starts. This requires a small crew, but … Continue reading
Sometimes we filmmakers will make a movie just for a quick buck. But every once in a while something comes along that sets fire to your soul, something that will kill your heart if you don’t put it to film. For me, Encino Man was one of those movies. See, it’s all about the haves … Continue reading
You hear the official line about the fire on Universal? Turns out that some workers were using a blowtorch to set some shingles to the roof of a movie set building. They finished up, watched it for an hour, and then went for a break. Half an hour later, a guard reported the thing blazing. … Continue reading
My purpose with this blog is to talk movies. My movies, certainly, but also other people’s movies. And you gotta understand, that is not as easy as I would like it to be living here in La Paz. So I’ll probably spend more time bitching about things than anything else. It isn’t easy. This city, … Continue reading
Alfred Hitchcock was a genius, there’s no denying that fact. Whether or not you like his films is inconsequential; he was simply a master, the likes of which may never be seen again. He was an artist in the purest sense of the word. He was also quite the character, one that purposely stirred the … Continue reading
One of the more interesting — and promising — pieces of news I’ve seen in the past week indicates that Tim Burton is now attached as director to the proposed Dark Shadows movie, which Johnny Depp apparently acquired the rights to after creator Dan Curtis died not too long ago. This, it seems, has been … Continue reading
We’ve all had those little moments of grandeur where we sit and imagine the wonderful films we’d bring about if only WE got to call the shots in Hollywood. Here are some movie projects I’d love to see happen: — An adaptation of Frank Miller’s “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” with Christian Bale, directed by … Continue reading
Death. The high cost of living. That’s something I heard from Neil Gaiman once. Actually, it was a title of the comic book, but I’m straying from the original concept of this blog. I asked a question in the title of this blog. Is it wrong to be happy with someone else’s death? What am … Continue reading
Not literally, though I did pick up The Bourne Conspiracy today for the 360 only to have my system give me the red ring of death on the second level. There were absolutely zero indications something was wrong with my system but it is very dead now. That’s number two for me, and this one … Continue reading
I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I have a great recall of are the various routines of the Marx Brothers. As a very young child, I was a fan of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, who I’d watch after school. It took me a few years to graduate to the Marx … Continue reading