Trumbo is a Triumph (Review)
My inaugural movie review covers a lesser-known film. This is good news for you if you find it as worthy as I did, because if you catch it soon enough, you will get good seats. Sometimes two people with similar sensibilities can watch the same film and come away with different reactions. I don’t refer to tastes in this instance. I refer to motivation. If you need sex, action, and special effects, this might not be your film. If you like good acting, great costumes, and an inspiring true story, read on… I went to see this film, Trumbo, because I was interested in the history. Because I am a movie aficionado, of course I wanted to learn more about some of the key “actors”
New Age Is An Oxymoron: Read The Classics
I have chosen to be particularly paradoxical or perhaps simply obtuse today. I am going to write a review about a film I refuse to see. A friend, knowing my love for movies, asked if I had seen _____________, the latest self-help film, this one along the lines of What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret. I had seen both of those films and more or less decided I was done with the genre. Though films that pass for New Age infomercials often contain some useful suggestions with regard to how one might live life more happily, I don’t need to read the books or watch a movie to get the same information. Besides, there’s a part of me that suspects a terrible