In 2005, Terrence Malick delivered a sweeping, epic vision of the seventeenth century love triangle inhabited by the singular Native American princess Pocahontas (Q’orianka Kilcher) and her two English explorers, John Smith (Colin Farrell) and John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Thanks to the experienced?filming eyes of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and Malick’s direction, the story beautifully appears…
Forget Sly, Arnold, Clint, Mel, Dolph or even Chuck. Everyone knows the toughest action star of the 80’s was Kurt. And when he wasn’t trying to get the a president out of post-apocalyptic New York or defeat Asian demigods in Little China, Kurt Russell was busy in Antarctica, battling claustrophobia, paranoia and body-snatching aliens?all in…
Upon first glance, Mad Max: Fury Road seems out of place amongst its fellow best picture nominees. There?s no biographical dramatization, no outspoken activist star. There?s not even a subtitle in sight. But there is flame-spewing punk rock guitarist chained to a thirty-foot wall of Marshall amps on the front of a semi.?In other words:…
On Christmas 2015, a crime/action flick called?Point Break?exploded into theaters and … fizzled out. But what younger audiences may not know is that this film about globetrotting thrill seekers who also robbed banks is a remake of one of the best action/buddy films of all time from twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years ago, before?The Fast…
I remember seeing The Return of the Jedi?as a seven year old. Sure, I’d seen?A New Hope?and?The Empire Strikes Back. I couldn’t wait for the good guys to bust in and reclaim?Han (remember, we didn’t know for sure he could be rescued but we?hoped), and for the evil Empire to be destroyed. In those days…
Charles Dickens was a genius. His evaluation of the nature of humankind mixed with an astute understanding of what conversion, repentance, and redemption look like still stands tall as a classic representation of the Christian faith?and?Christmas itself. But when it comes to the cinematic adaptation of his fine morality play, there is none quite like…
Early on in?A Charlie Brown’s Christmas,?Charlie Brown tells both Linus and Lucy that he isn’t feeling the season. Linus (who is generally the source of wisdom in these situations) isn’t terribly receptive to his complaint, but Lucy pushes Charlie toward involvement – after diagnosing him as suffering from?pantophobia. While it’s hard to doubt the genius…
This week, cyberspace has been abuzz with the thirtieth anniversary of Marty McFly’s ”flight’ to the past, and the future, and the past past. [As an English teacher, I will just say… go with it.] While the Chicago Cubs went down in flames, and not every invention of the imagined future has come to fruition,…
By the time you finish reading this, it?ll be the future. (Okay, technically, it?ll be the present?but it?ll be the future too.) As anyone who has a Facebook account knows by now, October 21st, 2015 at 4:29pm is the scheduled moment that Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back To The Future Part II….
As Warner Brothers prepares for the impending?The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?feature film starring Henry Cavill and Arnie Hammer, the first season of the black & white television show arrives on DVD. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star in the roles that Cavill and Hammer will take up soon, in a show that ran on NBC from…
