Tag: films
member name: Garen Daly
|
March 28, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Does this happen to you? You're plopped down in front of the TV and you are assiduously exercising your evolutionary advantage - your opposable thumb, You flip through channels working your attention . . .
more
|
|
April 21, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
Bi-fur-cated. Hollywood is bifurcated. It's not some new psycho-sexual fad. What the heck is bifurcated or bifurcation? Bifurcation is a noun meaning the division of something into two parts or two . . .
more
|
|
October 29, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
For over a century, movie goers have plopped down coin, walked into the dark, sat down and waited, waited to be frightened. Think about that for a second. We are using our hard earned bucks to get . . .
more
|
|
November 05, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
How many times have you seen a film and it resonates within you? I’m not talking about getting all breathless over star, or even getting jazzed by the plot or action or whatever. No, what I am talking . . .
more
|
|
November 17, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
Hollywood has a tough time with its siblings.
Back in the early days of film, there wasn't a lot of competition for the entertainment dollar. At the turn of the last century, Vaudeville was happening . . .
more
|
|
January 21, 2009 08:51 AM EST --
OK, I am running a tad behind schedule. This was supposed to be posted two weeks ago, but as my dear old mother was wont to say, 'better later than never.'
How many of us have spent time in . . .
more
|
|
April 28, 2008 09:32 AM EDT --
Film critics have a favorite past time - taking pot shots at Hollywood. Sometimes it's warranted, but occasionally Hollywood does something right. Something that improves our culture, makes us better. . . .
more
|
|
June 09, 2008 02:14 PM EDT --
It's dark. The mosquitos are slyly, noisily seeking a bloody meal. A speaker dangles from a slightly pulled down window. The wind shield is fogged. The sound coming from the car is subdued, hormonally . . .
more
|
|
December 26, 2007 08:17 AM EST --
Film going is all about expectations. We like a certain star or director or topic. The buzz is strong. The plot sounds intriguing. We buy the ticket, inhale the popcorn aroma, and find our way to our . . .
more
|
|
June 30, 2008 07:34 AM EDT --
They act surprised. A movie is made, it doesn't adhere to the same old, same old. It's a tad different and the pundits, the talking heads, the people in search of a topic to espouse, all proclaim . . .
more
|
|
December 10, 2007 06:11 PM EST --
Head to the video store and have yourself a Merry Christmas Film Festival . Start December 13, watch one film a day and as you do, the full range of the holiday feeling will slide down your chimney right . . .
more
|
|
November 30, 2008 07:40 PM EST --
I ran movie theaters for many years. Boston was my bailiwick. I was a motion picture exhibitor. Exhibition is the bottom rug of the movie business and I was small “art house indie”, the bottom rung on . . .
more
|
|
October 15, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
By Garen Daly
Creativity is lacking in Hollywood. This is no surprise. Since the first movies, critics have complained how films pander to the masses and how they lack imagination. Has it gotten worse? . . .
more
|
|
|
|
