Orson Welles Talks About Making “The Trial”
The footage is raw. It was apparently intended for a documentary that was never completed. Anyway, Welles tells the story of making his last feature so brilliantly and with such…
Three Ridiculous Things About One of My Favorite Movies of All Time
This was a hard one. I’m used to doing these for movies I dislike, or at least have serious issues with. This is a movie I’ve seen hundreds of times.…
Where Do Gods Go When Their Last Worshipper Drops Dead?
Gemma Arrowsmith knows: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDr3J3bsU6A&w=560&h=315]
3 Ridiculous Things About Star Trek: The Motion Picture
We’re back on more or less a regular schedule with these things. This is the second of our “3 Ridiculous Things…” looks at the Star Trek movies, looking at the ambitious-but-flawed…
Wherein Jim Responds To the Movie Love Questionnaire
Maybe I ought to speak to my therapist about my inability to pass up answering one of these interview-like questionnaires. This one comes from Roger Ebert's website. You can read…
Three Ridiculous Things About the J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movies
I don’t spend a lot of time on the well-worn issues–lens flares, red matter, silly coincidences, Khan’s British now, using the transporter to go across the galaxy. Instead, I talk…
Close Encounter
Neil and I set up my telescope in his backyard to catch the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus last night. I must say that taking pictures through a telescope with an…
RIP James Horner
The first James Horner score I heard was this one, when I was 10 years old, in a movie theater in Tooele, Utah, waiting to find out if Spock would really…
Rough Week
Sorry to have been away for a bit. Early last Tuesday morning, my digestive system suddenly decided that it was Tommy DeSimone and that the rest of me was six weeks late…
To Penny Dreadful, Queen of the Youtube
When someone wants to praise us, we let them. It’s a welcome break from being chased through villages by torch wielding angry mobs. (We get that a lot. It’s bothersome,…