Movies & TV
Thoughts on movies and TV shows.
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The risk of any sequel is that it could potentially denigrate the original that inspired it. Like when Paramount, MTV, and Nickelodeon joined together to attack the Asian American community and Airbender fans by insisting on casting all White actors as lead characters in the Asian influenced story (Learn the full story at racebending.com). OK,
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Just before the recent Christmas holiday, Jennifer at Retrevo.com sent out a list of “Epic Nerd-Approved Movies for Kids.” It concluded a longer list of overall Nerd-Approved Movies (scroll to the bottom of their list for the kids movies). It included (in my opinion) some great movies like The Goonies, The Secret of Nimh, The
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How different would Factory Girl have been if Andy Warhol were still alive? Would he have threatened to sue like Bob Dylan? Or would have cursed it out like Lou Reed? He called it, “one of the most disgusting, foul things I’ve seen — by any illiterate retard — in a long time. There’s no
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Writing about Romeo and Juliet, got me thinking about Tony and Maria. Thinking about Tony and Maria got me thinking about Maria’s brother, Bernardo and his girlfriend (and Maria’s surrogate sister), Anita . Thinking about Anita started Rita Moreno singing in my head : “I like to be in America, everything for free in America…”
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It was Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that reignited my love of Shakespeare. Even before I read Romeo and Juliet, I had “read” it. The story is an interesting instance of when a book’s (or play’s) reputation precedes it. The longevity of Shakespeare’s works is not a result of their inclusion in
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The one thing everyone kept telling me about Rango was that it wasn’t a "kid’s film." With the ticket price what it is in New York, it was enough for me to tell my boys we’d wait for the film to come out on DVD. I’d been burnt before – Robots – Chicken Little. Even
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Netflix is streaming Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. The movie is as good as I remember it. But watching it now as a former New York City school teacher and a father of two, there’s a message there that wasn’t there when I first saw the movie (pre-classroom and pre-parenthood). It’s a message about the
Vincent Young 