“You two boys must have been born in a revival meeting.” –Humphrey Bogart as Fred Dobbs, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Category: movies
Jan 15
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #7: Title
It can be tough picking a good title. You want something that communicates the overall theme of your production, and it needs to be able to reach kids who have only been reading for a year. Plus, while you, as the writer and director, have been steeping yourself in Chinese food, language, culture, and movies, …
Jul 10
Review: Brave
We saw Pixar’s Brave last weekend. It was OK. I didn’t love or hate the movie; it was just fine. Really, it just seemed like pretty much every other Disney princess movie: I’m a young princess, I don’t want to do any thing I don’t feel like doing, I am willing to do bad things …
Apr 07
What’s your favorite Tim Burton movie?
Mine is that one where Johnny Depp plays that weird pasty guy, and all that creepy stuff happens and Danny Elfman’s music is all ‘oompa OOMPA oompa OOMPA.’ I’m just kidding. Really my favorite Tim Burton movie is Big Fish, probably the least Burtonesque movie he’s done. Second favorite? Probably Ed Wood, though I don’t …
Mar 23
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
I haven’t read The Hunger Games, and haven’t really paid attention to the book series. I had the barest concept of the story from The Baby, who liked the first book, was cool to the second, and hated the third. So I had pretty much no expectations going in. I only went because the girls …
Feb 23
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D
So I was doing some research for another post and I stumbled across this: You can read about it here.
Aug 17
Quotable: Kenneth Branagh on the Thor DVD Commentary
“If I’d’ve had this opportunity on previous films they’d all have cost squinty billion dollars.”