Another missed opportunity for 3D. This weekend's release of the so-called first chapter of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," followed in a few weeks by the 3D version of "Titanic," could have continued the momentum of "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast" and been a huge boon to improving the … [Read more...]
Hoffman, Mann on “Luck”; review
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
"Santa Anita is fantastic," says Michael Mann of the iconic horse race track in Arcadia, Ca. "It's beautiful, a great-looking race track; why would you choose any other place?" That's high praise from the filmmaker responsible for the TV and movie versions of "Miami Vice," the seven-time Oscar … [Read more...]
Multiple 3D movies cuts % of each
August 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
I was not very good at math in school but the current situation in which 3D is widely reported to be dwindling as a percentage of a movie’s overall gross seems like a pretty simple equation that appears to be lost on much of the mainstream and industry media. First of all, we know there are … [Read more...]
IMAX 3D Wild vs Disney Cats
April 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Every filmmaker and studio executive should be required to watch the Disneynature film "African Cats" (opening Earth Day, April 22) followed by a screening of the new IMAX 3D documentary "Born to be Wild" (opening Friday, April 8). Maybe then they will all understand what is missing from … [Read more...]
Hayley Taylor feels like love
March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the advantages of controlling your own web site is being able to take liberties once in awhile to plug something or someone that is maybe not within the primary mission range of the web site but is deserving of attention nonetheless. Such a person is singer-songwriter Hayley Taylor, … [Read more...]
HBO’s “Reagan” docu debut 2/7
February 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
It may seem like the celebration of President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday has been going on for nearly that long in the last couple weeks, but HBO has one more memento to mark the occasion, the network's Feb. 7 debut (9 p.m. ET/PT )of Eugene Jarecki's documentary "Reagan" that premiered Jan. 23 … [Read more...]
Barry, underScoring one of best
February 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
There is only a handful of film composers I would rank among the greatest, most prolific, and impactful of our time; John Barry is one of them. Put him amongst the likes of John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, and Bernard Herrmann. His death at age 77 on Jan. 30 in New York is cause to … [Read more...]
Ebert shortsighted re: 3D
January 26, 2011 By 10 Comments
Roger Ebert has once again gone on the attack against the concept of 3D, this time presenting a letter from esteemed film editor and sound designer Walter Murch suggesting that there are inherent physical limitations to human vision that will forever prevent comfortable viewing of cinematic 3D. He … [Read more...]
Disney dominates 3D Oscar noms
January 25, 2011 By 2 Comments
Disney dominated the 3D movies nominated for Oscars today, with five of the six nominated 3D movies. "Toy Story 3" picked up one of the 10 noms in the top category of Best Motion Picture as well as Best Animated Feature among its five total noms. "Alice in Wonderland" had three Academy Award … [Read more...]
“Avatar” Blu-ray 3D best 3D yet
November 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
I have seen the first Blu-ray 3D movie that could do what consumer electronics companies have been hoping would happen – drive me to buy a 3D TV and Blu-ray 3D player just to get and watch that movie, which is “Avatar.” This is the OMG! disc the industry needs so badly. Clearly … [Read more...]
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