On the plane ride over the Pacific there were no individual TV screens. This made me not watch 3 movies, play video games, and stay up for the whole flight. I didn’t even read anything or write. I closed my eyes and slept. That was new. It also helped that [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘film’
July 19, 2008
Apocalypto
Apocalypto is the story of a young Mayan tribesman, Jaguar Paw, whose village is destroyed and the villagers killed or taken captive by a party of fierce raiders led by the intimidating Zero Wolf and taunted by the cruel, menacing Middle Eye. Because of a recent plague and drought we discover that the men [...]
June 9, 2008
Mr. W
Here’s a clever commercial, fitting for this site. It cracked me up. The dude looks like Marcel Marceau on growth hormones and steroids. Those wacky Germans and their subtle humor.
May 8, 2008
I Am Legend
I Am Legend is the third film adaptation of a Richard Matheson novel of the same name. The 1954 novel is credited with being the first work of fiction involving zombies. In the book, a bacterial pandemic has spread through 1970’s Los Angeles. The only survivors have turned into zombie vampires. [...]
April 4, 2008
Rooftop, My Favorite Soap Opera Character
The Trickster
Of all the archetypes that Carl Jung wrote about, and later Joseph Campbell outlined in his masterpiece of myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I most identified with the trickster. This might be why April Fool’s Day is my favorite holiday. It’s also my dear friend, Jerry McGill’s birthday.
Fittingly, Jerry has [...]
March 13, 2008
The Notebook
It’s said that one of the best ways to rid yourself of toxins is to empty your tear ducts. Crying, like laughing, is a healing act. To reach your quota of lacrimation, or tearing, I recommend The Notebook. The movie appears to be standard poor boy meets rich girl. And that’s [...]
December 23, 2007
Sunshine
Fifty years in the future, a theoretical space anomaly has begun eating up the sun and a permanent winter has struck earth. The crew is on a virtual suicide mission to deliver a bomb the size of Manhattan to re-ignite the sun. Their ship is a giant parabola that acts as a shield [...]
