Dear Reader I recently heard a celebrity say on a podcast how she cries during films on airplanes more often because the altitude opens up tear ducts. I believe this, though don’t want to bother researching a scientific topic right now. Why am I trusting? When I returned from a long weekend in Sarasota Fl,… Continue reading Eye in the Sky: Not Your Average Military Movie
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Sicario: Del Toro “I Woke Up Like This”
What must it be like to wake up as Benicio Del Toro, put on a nice suit or SWAT gear and be ready on set. He’s not so much an actor as someone who is gifted to have ‘the look’, the dark, brooding, borderline sinister resting face. Or Josh Brolin? Who only needs to add… Continue reading Sicario: Del Toro “I Woke Up Like This”
Gone Girl, I Rest My Case
Miraculously my surprise was intact by the middle of “Gone Girl” despite its notoriety as a best selling book and that the movie had been out for ten days. I take partial credit, not reading the New Yorker review, which is notoriously plot synopsis. I enjoyed three quarters of the film until Ben Affleck’s character… Continue reading Gone Girl, I Rest My Case
Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Double Header Pilgrimage
Living in Rochester, New York grants me the privilege of seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman movies on the big screen once a week for the next few months at the grand Dryden Theater (George Eastman House). And since one of his last movies “The Most Wanted Man” opened at the independent Little Theater on Friday 7/25/14,… Continue reading Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Double Header Pilgrimage