UTC,
It feels good to be back! My life has taken me on a very interesting journey over the past few months, but I’ve not neglected reading and, most importantly, I’ve not forgotten about YOU.
So as not to prolong your literary juice any further, let’s jump right in. I’ve taken in a number [...]
BOOKS/REVIEWS
Why are we fascinated by the entity so named “Brangelina?” Part of it has to do with what we see play out in their personal lives, but I would argue that it mostly has to do with the very interesting choices they make on screen. Jolie had her turn in this year’s [...]
I’ve been a fan of Will Smith’s since the early days. And who is prouder that he is one of the very few stars who can still open a movie and promise a big opening. It seems as if lately, however, Smith is doing some mid-life soul searching, trying to challenge himself [...]
I consider myself fortunate enough to have made it to an AFI screening of Steven Soderbergh’s four hour meditation on the life of Ernesto Che Guevara. To many he is a handsome face on a t-shirt that has something to do with rebellion. To other people, like those “real” American patriots who are [...]
From the production team that brought us Soul Food, comes a refreshing entry in the holiday movie sweepstakes. The title Nothing Like the Holidays announces that this film is not typi-cal: both because it’s set in the largely Puerto Rican neighborhood of Humboldt Park in Chi-cago and because of the suggestion that holidays are [...]
The buzz was intense. I harangued some poor PR guy at Universal for weeks. I finally got to see it and… and …d oes Michael Sheen get David Frost’s oh so distinctive that I can still remember it in my head 40 years later voice, right? Is Frank (sexiest Dracula ever) Langella [...]
Cadillac Records is a thoroughly entertaining vehicle that charts the beginning and end of the legendary Chess Record label. Outstanding music by Chess recording artists Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Etta James provides the soundtrack, played with gusto by a stellar team of actors. Special mention always goes to [...]
Hello UTC,
What can one say about a film with Hugh “Sexiest Man Alive” Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann? You are bound to come in with certain expectations that Luhrmann will surely trounce as he has made a career out of violating convention, even his own. “Australia” is a sort of about [...]
Movie Biases: C’mon now – you tell me!
Major Players: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, co-writer Paul Haggis, director Marc Forster.
Logline: Avenging the death of his duplicitous love Vesper Lynd, James Bond (Craig) pursues a wealthy, shady environmentalist (Mathieu Amalric) who’s cutting deals with the CIA, Bolivian government, and a nefarious, power-hungry dictator (Joaquin Cosio) [...]
Movie Biases: I like to move it move it – again!
Major Players: Voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bernie Mac.
Logline: When their airplane crashes over the African bush while heading home to New York, Alex (Stiller) is reunited with his long lost lion father Zuba (Mac), [...]