A crooked cop chases someone through the streets of New York City. Someone who has something worth a lot of money, money that he wants. The cop corners the man more than once, but the man slips away each time. […]
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An Industry Losing its Viability?
Doomsaying has become popular sport in America, from the extreme of that crazy California radio prophet being wrong about the end of the world not just once, but twice in 2011, to technology pundits predicting that DVDs will disappear within […]
Continue reading »Hugo’s Worthless Poster
Below, I’ve described how much I like the poster for One for the Money, and how much it makes me want to see the film. The opposite is true for the advance poster for Hugo. I’m not sure I can […]
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With the silent French production The Artist vying for Oscar attention this year (which I have yet to see at this writing), this seems a good time to broach the subject of silent films and modern viewing habits. My questions are […]
Continue reading »Question Marks?
All of my review titles are structured as Title, Year, Star Rating. They look perfectly fine when I create them. However, one person has told me that on his computer, my star ratings are question marks. Does anybody else see […]
Continue reading »One for the Money
I usually try to avoid high anticipation for upcoming movies because they so often do not or cannot fulfill the hopefulness their publicity generates. In fact, I am happiest when I know the bare minimum about a movie; that way […]
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