Kung Fu Panda is Better than Wall-E – The Annie Awards are Right
Much frothing in the blogosphere regarding the 36th Annual Annie Awards giving 15 awards to Kung Fu Panda, including Best Feature, while giving Wall-E none. The thing is, the Annie’s are right. Kung Fu Panda is the better movie. Wall-E deserved to win technical awards I’m sure. It’s innovative interpretation/translation of real-world lenses and cameras [...]
Clint Eastwood: From 'Play Misty for Me' to 'Gran Torino'
We spend time ruminating on Clint Eastwood’s career in this week’s show: The Film Talk – Part 48 – Gran Torino and the Films of Clint Eastwood With that in mind I take a look at the image above from Clint’s first directed pic ‘Play Misty for Me’ and a frame from his last ‘Gran [...]
The Long View #1: 'The Reader'
Continuing a series of articles on how most of this year’s Best Picture nominees are bad remakes of earlier, better films. ‘The Reader’ The Holocaust story should be told and re-told, but, as Kate Winslet said in an episode of ‘Extras’ a couple of years ago, playing a lead role in a Holocaust movie doesn’t [...]
'I Can Read Movie Series' – Quick and Brilliant Film Graphics from Spacesick
Now thanks to the instant access of content via the Tubes plus the ability to ‘Control C’ and ‘Control V’ we’re seeing a wonderful explosion of past works re-imagined. My favorite this week is without question the quick and brilliant mock-ups of popular, mainstream commercial Hollywood cinema contraptions done as book covers from the mid-60′s [...]
