Well, it’s happened. Sony has decided to make a Foundation movie. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series has been a part of my life for a quarter century; I read the original trilogy when I was a freshman in high school, then Foundation’s Edge and Foundation and Earth the next year. Shortly thereafter, the Robots novels followed.Continue reading “On Sony’s Upcoming Foundation Movie”
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On the One Day Movie Adaptation
When my sister learned that I was going to see One Day, the new film starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, last night, her reaction wasn’t surprising — “But, but… that’s a chick flick!” “I’ve read the novel,” I said, “and the novel’s about as far from chick lit as you can get.” Yes, theContinue reading “On the One Day Movie Adaptation”
On the new Winnie-the-Pooh Movie
This afternoon I went to see Disney’s new Winnie-the-Pooh. This was the first theatrical Pooh movie since 2005’s Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and it’s Disney’s first traditional cel animation movie in a few years, since The Princess and the Frog. Pooh and I go back a long ways. I don’t know if The Many Adventures ofContinue reading “On the new Winnie-the-Pooh Movie”
On Pooh Anticipations
A really big movie is opening this week. No, not Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two. I mean, yes, that’s the movie everyone’s talking about, but that’s not the one that I really really really want to see this weekend. That would be Disney’s new Winnie-the-Pooh. Six years ago I went to seeContinue reading “On Pooh Anticipations”
On Seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Last week at work I won tickets to an advance screening tonight of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third film in Michael Bay’s trilogy of films based on the popular Hasbro toys and the mid-80s cartoon series. Growing up as I did in the 1980s, I watched the cartoon religiously. The Autobots, the Decepticons,Continue reading “On Seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
On Disappointment in Marvel Studios’ Thor
I don’t go to the movies very often. Five years ago, I would go at least once a month. Sometimes, during summer blockbuster season, multiple times a week. Now, I go to the movies maybe twice a year. In 2010, i saw Sherlock Holmes on New Year’s Day and The Chronicles of Narnia: The VoyageContinue reading “On Disappointment in Marvel Studios’ Thor”
On an Oxfordian Movie
So! The Shakespeare Authorship Question is the subject of a new film from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, Anonymous, out this autumn. According to a write-up in Entertainment Weekly, it focuses on Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who is considered by some (like the Shakespeare-Oxford Society) to be the true author of Shakespeare’sContinue reading “On an Oxfordian Movie”
Atonement
Be warned. This post contains spoilers for a three year-old film based on a decade-old book. Tuesday night, I finally saw Expiation. Or, as we say in the English-speaking world, Atonement, the 2007 film that starred James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, based on Ian McEwan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel. Yes, the DVD I own of theContinue reading “Atonement”
On The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
When I was very young, no more than six, I found my way into Narnia. CBS produced an animated adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, directed by Bill Melendez, one of the lights behind CBS’ Peanuts cartoons. I was really taken with the movie, and my parents bought me a boxed setContinue reading “On The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
On My Favorite Childhood Movie
No one remembers the movies they saw when they were young. I can't tell you what the first movie I saw was; the earliest movies that I can remember going to see were The Black Hole and Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown. The former I've had no desire to see again in my adulthood;Continue reading “On My Favorite Childhood Movie”