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Movie Blog Post: NOW YOU SEE ME
Magic is all about challenging people's realities and what they think is possible... It's another way to categorize human perception, similarly to - do you see the glass as half full or half empty? With magic, it's - do you want to believe or do you want to see the trick?
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Buffet: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone / Stoker / The Call
I got to attend screenings Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week! The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Stoker and The Call. I’d like to do an essay on each of them, particularly Stoker; but as all three open this weekend, there just isn’t time. So, I’ve written a 30 second review and included video interviews, which speak to the heart of each film, without giving too much away… The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (Director Don Scardino) – is the right vehicle for the comedy stylings of both Steve Carell and Jim Carey. Carell as Wonderstone, gets to do that obtuse, self-aggrandizing, but deep down I’m a good guy thing – as his…
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I Wanted Flying Monkeys, Not Flying Baboons: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor There is no way anyone is going to be able to discuss Disney’s epic Oz the Great and Powerful without discussing their childhood memories of The Wizard of Oz, so why should I be any different. My older sister used to make us watch The Wizard of Oz every year, which always caused the two sides of my adolescent Gemini personality to be at war. One part was drawn into the magic, fantasy, characters and adventure. The other part of me enjoyed the music, but was terrified by the whole premise of Dorothy being lost somewhere weird and different. I hated that she wasn’t prepared…
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Serving Up: Jack the Giant Slayer
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor One of life’s beautiful mysteries is the ageless, universality of myths and fairytales. Why are these stories still so familiar to us century after century? It occurred to me, Joseph Campbell, the father of mythology, would be a good one to turn to on this subject, so I did a quick Google search to find out how he defines the difference between a myth and a fairytale – Campbell describes fairy tales, used interchangeably with “folk tale,”as pastime and as the myths whose meaning has been lost over time. I found a blog from a doctorate student in Mythology. She expresses myth as metaphors and…
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Garnish: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
If you’ve seen the trailers for The Odd Life of Timothy Green, you know the deal – cute, simple Midwest couple (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) are told to give up on having a child, as one or both of them is incapable of procreating progeny. Despondent, they decide it’s best to lay the matter to rest; but first, one last night where they wallow in the fantasy, writing down on scraps of paper what their nearly perfect off-spring would be like if they had been lucky enough to conceive. Papers go in box, box gets buried in garden. Thunder, lightening, wind, rain and leaves produce magical child from buried…
