Philip Seymour Hoffman

  When I started on the path that I’m on, I was told to put into a sentence ‘who’ I wanted to be.  That sentence with minor edits was ‘A guy who can be anything from the 2nd to 5th player in a blockbuster/genre piece, but who can easily be the headliner in a smaller, […]

‘Gravity’

  This is starting to feel like a year from the 70s.  A lot of really good films, but they cover a lot of different territory. American Hustle is the ‘fun’ film, and 12 Years a Slave is the ‘important’ film…but if you wanted to make the case that Gravity is the ‘most cinematic film’ (and the Producers Guild seems […]

The Last Weekend of ‘Christian Bale’

  First, the Oscars: a few slight surprises in my opinion, but for the most part the nominations went as expected.  I went back today and added the tag ‘oscars 2014’ to the posts of the films I’ve seen so far, so if you missed (or want to go back) and check out my opinions […]

Song of the Day – ‘Keep On Lovin’ Me’

  A couple of weekends left to see the show I’m doing (and the very old school mustache I’m sporting).  Since the timing is about the same, I’m debating whether to hold on to it for King Day or not.  Pilot season will probably make the decision for me though.  We’ll see. Anyway, as a […]

‘Christian Bale’ Opens This Weekend!

  I warned you things would start quickly this year… From the team that brought you Natalie Portman: the Musical, this year begins with Christian Bale: the Musical!  If you saw the last show, you’ll know the tone and style that we do, if you missed the last one…well, you’re in for a nice surprise, aren’t you? We […]

2013

  I had a dream to start the week; one of these dreams where as it goes on, you realize you’re not in reality.  I was out somewhere (the Grove maybe?), and I saw my dream girl and her kid.  We hadn’t seen each other in a real long time.  As I was debating whether […]

Song of the Day – ‘Imagine’

  This is the story of the worst thing I did to play myself this year… Part of moving up in the world was free access to a professional recording studio, sound engineer included.  As I was putting down a lot of different voiceover demos, I was also working on doing a recording of ‘Imagine’ […]

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

A couple weeks, one of my aces out here threw out this analogy, which I’m sure he stole from someone else, and now (since I know alot of you are not in Hollywood) I’m stealing this analogy to start this review.  If 12 Years a Slave gave you the ‘origins’ of the black experience in America, and Fruitvale […]