Forget The Road, the upcoming Viggo Mortensen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. The bleak, dark story with a somehow life-affirming movie-from-book I want to see is The Long Walk.
As I finish reading this book for the third time, I notice there are others out there who are rediscovering it, too. Others who also see what [...]
Here’s some of my favs from the gang over at B3ta.
Guillermo Del Toro, auteur of so many wonderful films, like Pan’s Labyrinth, is my favorite krazy director/producer. His upcoming projects make me salivate, like Bag of Bones, the Stephen King hauntfest from years back, to adaptations of Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, to whatever the hell “Drood” is.
But in light of all the [...]
Well, that was me landing after my first ever skydive. IAF1, Instructor Assisted Freefall. Like tandem, but I was in control…until the landing. I need to see what that’s like before I try it. The freefall from 14,000 feet was amazing, indescribable Zen. 120 mph straight down, then the deafening wind is vanquished when I [...]
I figure I might as well make some kind of homage to this chapter of the Star Wars anthology, seeing as it’s my personal favorite. This is mostly due to the excitement I felt at 13 years old of the prospect of such a thing as a sequel to a movie I loved. But it’s [...]
One of my favorite people ever is Albert Brooks. I’d love to have lunch with him. His insight into the real human condition is spot on. I absolutely love him in this scene from Lost In America.
I can’t believe YouTube has zero video of this classic 70s example of needless catastrophe movies. The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, sure they merit. But do they have Robert Shaw? How about Bruce Dern? No, and no. Some interesting trivia:
This John Frankenheimer thriller is heavily edited. The average shot length = 5.3 seconds.
Also, Frankenheimer and [...]
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