The other day I watched ‘Pleasantville‘. Now I remember seeing it at the Ritz 16 (now called Showcase at the Ritz) in Voorhees, New Jersey when it came out in 1998. I was just a junior in high school then. Not really aware of the awesome power that this film embodied. And over the next [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Pleasantville: The best Hollywood movie since 1998?
Posted in From the balcony, tagged 1990s, Hollywood, Movies, Music, Norman Rockwell, Pleasantville, Randy Newman, Reese Witherspoon, Review, Tobey Maguire on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quarantine the Movie
Posted in From the balcony, tagged Hollywood, movie, News, Quarantine, REC, Review, Romero, Trailer, TV, Zombie on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine you’re a TV news crew following a team of Hazmat agents into an apartment building to evacuate its residents, but something horribly wrong happens and you’re team is now being chased by…Zombies (of sorts). Sound stupid? Sure does, but that doesn’t stop Hollywood from making it. Quarantine, a remake of the Spanish film REC [...]
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Posted in From the balcony, tagged Coming Attractions, Entertainment, Films, Media, movie, News, Poultrygeist, Review, YouTube on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I consider myself to be a cineaste and I often check out the latest and greatest (though sometimes the greatest really suck!) film buzz on various movie sites. One site I view, almost everyday, is Movies So having prefaced the site (yeah free plug for them – now where’s my money, haha?), I came across [...]
Steven Spielberg under the magnifying glass
Posted in Cutting Room Floor, tagged Book, Entertainment, Filmmaker, Metro, movie, News, Phialdelphia, Review, Steven Spielberg on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steven Spielberg, one of the two most lucrative film directors in history (the other is George Lucas and his ILM studio – Industrial Light & Magic), has come under the watchful eye of scholars time and time again. He’s somewhat regarded as a “popcorn filmmaker” rather then a filmmaker with substance – exceptions would be his [...]
