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Los Angeles is a fine town. I lived in its tepid embrace for over seven years, and I have to say it was probably seven of the best film years of my life. I think I saw as many movies in that time span as the occasional film viewer sees in a [...]
A couple of months back I happened upon the American Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Source, which is an online publication featuring articles about film, television, video games, actors, and more. The posts are written by critics and scholars from around the world, and the wde range of writers who all bring various [...]
On a recent post about [[Clash of the Titans]], Andy Best made a comment I’ve been coming back to over and over again since. The comment was the following:
And by the way, Jim, keep on plugging D&D, that game was solely responsible for getting me to read and develop in the face of school being [...]
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Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]
When talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be [[Ray Harryhausen]]’s [[Clash of the Titans]] (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should have said [[Desmond Davis]]’s Clash of the Titans because he was the director, and ever [...]
I had the great pleasure of re-watching one of my favorite films of all time recently with Shannon during our lunch hour. We saw the The Ultimate Director’s Cut version of [[The Warriors]] (1979) released in 2005, which I had not yet seen —and I must say the digital transfer of the film is [...]
I can’t resist a [[Stepehen King]] film adaptation, it is one of my great weaknesses and has accounted for many wasted hours in my life. I had already voiced my excitement about [[Frank Darabont|Frank Darabont's]] film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella [[The Mist]], which was a particularly special for me because it was [...]
This poll started out as a way to test Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan’s WordPress Poll plugin (which is pretty slick by the way), and quickly turned into a full-fledged poll asking what you think are the five best film adaptations of a [[Stephen King]] novel or story. I am limiting this poll to films only for [...]
When I was at UCLA in the mid-90s I saw a double-feature at Melnitz Theater (the Film School’s theater) that really freaked me out. The theme of the double-feature was “Maternal Nightmares,” and the films were [[Roman Polanski]]’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and [[David Cronenberg]]’s [[The Brood]] (1979). I am thinking about this outing because I [...]
[[Harry Dean Stanton]] is without question one of my favorite character actors, if not my favorite. He has been in a number of great movies with some amazing roles—I’m thinking [[Cool Hand Luke]], Alien, [[Escape from New York]], [[Pretty in Pink]], Paris, Texas, [[Wild at Heart]], etc. And I certainly echo the following sentiment articulated [...]
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