Spring is here, the start of a new baseball season is at hand. This year feels auspicious. The Cubs :cubs: are having a solid spring. Who knows what the coming season will hold? Could this be the year? Such is the hope of the Cubs fan. 😉 Instead of ruminating on the coming season, let’sContinue reading “On Baseball Movies”
Category Archives: Film
On Sherlock Holmes
It only took a week for me to get to the theater to see Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in the rather unimaginatively titled Sherlock Holmes. But yesterday being New Year’s Day, with nothing else pressing, I went to the local movieplex in the afternoon, thinking I would miss the thronging crowds. Alas, IContinue reading “On Sherlock Holmes”
On a Three Men Sequel
A sequel to Three Men and a Baby?!? Well, I’d been thinking about one myself, and it turns out there’s one actually in the works…
On an Upcoming John Lennon Biopic
A friend of mine, Michael Schuster, pointed me to this, the trailer for Nowhere Boy, an upcoming biopic about the teenage years of John Lennon: Aaron Johnson, whom I’ve never heard of, plays the young Lennon, and Thomas Sangster plays Paul McCartney. While Sangster doesn’t look especially much like McCartney, Johnson, particularly when he putsContinue reading “On an Upcoming John Lennon Biopic”
On Nick Hornby’s An Education
I stopped by Amazon today, to check on the status of an order. Normally, I don’t look at the recommendations on the first page, though it did amuse me that Amazon was recommending that I buy a copy of Grand Designs, especially as I wrote the first story in the volume. 🙂 Today, however, IContinue reading “On Nick Hornby’s An Education”
On Tristan + Isolde
My Sophia Myles film festival continued with 2006’s Tristan + Isolde. The story of Tristan and Isolde is one of the great tragic love stories, and has been told in medieval romances for about a millennia. The story centers on the love triangle between Tristan, his uncle (and liege lord) Mark, and Mark’s wife Isolde.Continue reading “On Tristan + Isolde”
On Outlander
My Sophia Myles film festival began with Outlander. Norway, 704 CE. A spacecraft crash lands near a Viking village. The lone survivor discovers that his spacecraft carried an alien creature, the Moorwen, and he begins to hunt it down. He finds one Viking village destroyed by the creature, but before he can kill it he’sContinue reading “On Outlander”
On Adam
Sometimes at work I have to scour movie trailer websites, to try and figure out what’s new and interesting coming out, so I can write a “link article” for work. So, while digging through Yahoo! Movies, I came across this: Adam. (Unfortunately, that version isn’t embeddable. You’ll have to clink the link. Or you canContinue reading “On Adam”
On Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes
I’ll be honest. I’ve not been looking forward to Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. The cast of Robert Downey, Jr. as Holmes made no sense to me. The early set photos didn’t instill any confidence in me, and while I was intrigued by the casting of Jude Law as Dr. Watson, I was iffy.Continue reading “On Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes”
On Sequel Thinking
For absolutely no reason at all today — except maybe that the subway train broke down in the tunnel between stops this morning — I worked out in my mind a sequel to a movie that maybe doesn’t need a sequel: Dave. Dave, of course, is that charming Kevin Kline movie about a Presidential impersonator,Continue reading “On Sequel Thinking”