A short story to start the week… A few people have asked me, now that ‘the Dark Knight’ chapter of my life has officially ended, where am I going next? As time goes on, that will fully reveal itself, but this is a nice segway: part of my time now is being a part […]
Alright, it’s late Sunday night/Monday morning when this goes out, so most of you who were interested has seen The Dark Knight Rises at least once right? Good! If you haven’t seen it, leave now. Friday morning I gave my midnight screening, top level, not ruining anything for any of my friends review, if you’re still reading […]
Return of the Jedi and The Godfather Part III. Those films have come up this week in getting ready for The Dark Knight Rises. After one viewing, my gut is telling me that’s the ‘class’ where the last Nolan Batman film will end up: by any other standard, a good film against what else is out there. […]
A lot going down over the next seven days, so let’s try to not squash everything into next weekend… I don’t fly my fanboy/geek colors for a lot of things at this point, but one of the few has been this generation’s version of ‘the Batman’. Some interesting comic book turns, two great video games […]
Halftime. Michael. Michael was the first icon of my generation. He loved entertaining, and we loved watching him and listening to him and imitating him. Along the way, he learned/understood the value of being enigmatic. It’s a very ‘Hollywood’ thing to do; the myth/mystery of who you are behind closed doors becomes part of your […]
I know, I haven’t written anything here in more than a week. I’m in the middle of one of those ‘A lot of things happening at once’ phases. A couple big hurdles down, a couple big ones left to go. This shouldn’t be the only time I write this week though (I think). And […]
So we had technical difficulties, so if you weren’t keeping up with me on Twitter, you didn’t get my thoughts (sorry). A few post game feelings though… You all know how much I’m a fan of Clooney, so I was genuinely surprised/amused at the disgust and hate when he didn’t get the Best Actor award. […]
So, I want to make my first feature length film… Step one, as is always the case, was creating the script. I caught parts of Clooney on the Actors Studio over the weekend, and I agree with his sentiment that you can take a good script and make a bad film out of it, […]
The Malik Aziz Foundation held its annual Black History Month dinner on Wednesday in an undisclosed location in Beverly Hills. This year’s Guest of Honor was Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, who participated in an interview, followed by a Q&A with our benefactors, trustees, and their guests. The following is a transcript from the untelevised interview session. […]
Some quick thoughts on this morning’s nominations… Best Picture – 9 films, wow. I called 6. Extremely Loud and War Horse haven’t been on my ‘must see’ list, but now I feel obligated… Best Actor – Gary Oldman, it’s about damn time!!!!! (yes I’m biased, been a fan for decades before he played Commissioner Gordon). […]
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