Film – Page 15 – Everything Nonfiction

Where The Wild (Weird) Things Are

I’ve been duped before by movie critics who apparently have never read the children’s story The Emperor’s New Clothes. So let me be the first to say it: the emperor is naked. He’s not wearing a stitch. If this movie doesn’t show an 80% drop in ticket sales by this time next week I’d be surprised. Film critics apparently can’t think for themselves. They all jump on a bandwagon and no one has the guts to jump off and say “wait a minute.” Here are just a few of the movies that I’ve been duped into seeing: Eyes Wide Shut, The Blair Witch Project, Open Water, Borat.

Review of Notorious by George Tillman, Jr.

I’m not a fan of RAP or Hip Hop. Every now and then I’ll hear something I like. For the most part, though, I’m a smooth jazz and country fan. I’m also a fan of good stories, and this story of the short life of rapper Christopher “Biggie” Wallace is a good one.

Review of Waltz With Bashir

This is a foreign language film that tells several related stories concerning the Israel/ Palestine conflict. In particular it deals with a massacre that ocurred in September of 1982 at a PPalestinian refugee camp. The film is unique in a number of ways, the most important of which is the fact that it is entirely animated, except for the last few minutes of the film.

Review of Defiance

When a movie starts with the phrase “A true story” as this one did, you know that what you’re seeing actually happened. This film tells the true story of three brothers who band together to fight the Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1941.

Review of The Express

There have been so many sports movies of late that it’s hard to avoid scenes that haven’t been done a hundred times before. They all follow the same basic format of the disadvantaged athlete (or athletes) who overcome(s) great obstacles to achieve great things on the field, track, court, or rink. The filmmakers were aware of this and did everything they could to avoid cliches.

Review of The Soloist

My first impression of this movie was how real it felt. Take for example the sets. Too many films today look staged. Even Spielberg has fallen into this trap. There are some scenes in the last Indiana Jones movie where everything on the screen looks like a storyboard with actors standing in designated spots, under artificial lighting, on sets that look like sets. You won’t get that impression with this film. This film looks and sounds like it was filmed on location.