Better to Give

What I’ve Been Watching: Please Give (2010). Who’s Responsible: Nicole Holofcener (writer-director), Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, and Oliver Platt (stars). Why I Watched It: Keener and Peet. Seen It Before? No. Likelihood of Seeing It Again (1-10): 7. Likelihood the Guys Will Rib Me for Watching It (1-10): 4. Totally Subjective BOF Rating (1-10): 6. [...]

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Uninformed Consent

One of the things I’ve hoped to do with my new “What I’ve Been Watching” posts is to entertain readers with the eclectic nature of my viewing habits, and although I won’t devote separate posts to the individual items, this weekend’s programming achieves that objective admirably. Kicking off my research on a new project for [...]

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Gene Colan (1926-2011)

Marvel Comics legend Gene Colan has left us at the age of 84.  Other than to mourn his passing, I don’t think I can really add anything to my recent birthday tribute, which may be found here.  Rest in peace, Gentleman Gene.

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“Come out, Morgan…”

What I’ve Been Watching: Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009). Who’s Responsible: Marc Lawrence (writer-director), Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott (stars). Why I Watched It: Grant and, to a lesser degree, the premise. Seen It Before? No. Likelihood of Seeing It Again (1-10): 5. Likelihood the Guys Will Rib Me for Watching [...]

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Tourist Attraction

What I’ve Been Watching: The Accidental Tourist (1988). Who’s Responsible: Lawrence Kasdan (writer-director), Frank Galati (co-writer), William Hurt, Kathleen  Turner, and Geena Davis (stars). Why I Watched It: Kasdan, Hurt, and Davis. Seen It Before? Once, long ago. Likelihood of Seeing It Again (1-10): 7. Likelihood the Guys Will Rib Me for Watching It (1-10): [...]

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Parnassian Nights

What I’ve Been Watching: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009). Who’s Responsible: Terry Gilliam (writer-director), Charles McKeown (co-writer), Heath Ledger and Friends, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits (stars). Why I Watched It: Mostly Gilliam, plus that I’m Not There casting (see below). Seen It Before? No. Likelihood of Seeing It Again (1-10): 6 Likelihood the Guys [...]

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Class Warfare

Warning: Semi-Spoilers Included I knew when attending X-Men: First Class today with Drax and son Damian that I had to look at the film from two perspectives at once:  1)  Was it true to Marvel’s X-Men comics, or at least as I knew them until the early ’80s, and 2)  Was it a good movie [...]

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the States

What I’ve Been Watching: Double Team (1997). Who’s Responsible: Tsui Hark (director), Don Jakoby and Paul Mones (screenwriters), Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, and Mickey Rourke (stars). Why I Watched It: Tsui to the world. Seen It Before? Once, and was pleasantly surprised. Likelihood of Seeing It Again (1-10): 7. Likelihood the Guys Will Rib [...]

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The Unkindness of Strangers

What I’ve Been Watching: Never Talk to Strangers (1995). Who’s Responsible: Peter Hall (director), Lewis A. Green and Jordan Rush (screenwriters), Rebecca De Mornay and Antonio Banderas (stars). Why I Watched It: Sexy thriller with Banderas. Also, when I taped it, I thought Sidney Lumet might have directed it in his Guilty as Sin phase. [...]

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Bombs Away!

As if I haven’t boasted about my daughter enough already, as a birth-/Father’s Day gift, she got tickets for me and Madame BOF to see the B-52s last night at the Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York.  Like many contemporaneous bands (e.g., R.E.M.), they came out of Athens, Georgia, in the 1970s, and for those [...]

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