Month: May 2006

(upon exiting the theatre)CKL: So, what did you think of the movie?D: I have two words for it: National. Treasure.CKL: Hmm. Or perhaps “Inter-National Treasure”!D: Perhaps. I have two more words: Bull. Shit. Referring, of course, to the egregious historical…

Thinking some more about the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program, I browsed over to screenwriter John Rogers’ blog, Kung Fu Monkey, and re-read his post on Writing: Plot and Story. Therein he articulates what I’d been trying to say before,…

Misty wears the cheese. The cheese does not wear her. (What do you mean, you don’t get it?)

Damn you, Jane Espenson. Damn you and your always-entertaining blog, whence I learned of the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program. It has stirred my latent dreams of being a professional screenwriter, and will surely consume a good portion of my…

D’s comment after we watched The Weather Man last night was that it was basically the same story as Our Time is Up, one of the Oscar-nominated shorts from 2005, but not done as well. I mostly agree. The performances…

There’s one shot in Mission: Impossible III that seems to go on forever. It’s Tom Cruise running along a crowded Shanghai street, and the camera tracks him as he runs. And runs. And runs. And runs some more. The shot…

Let’s get the geek joke out of the way: no, it’s not a biography of American recreational mathematician Martin Gardner. (Though that could also be a good movie, especially if it focused on his debunking of psychics and other pseudo-scientific…

My friend Bryan, who lives in the Seattle area, took some film school classes from Christopher Mosio, who worked on Akeelah and the Bee and is credited as 2nd unit director of photography and B camera operator. D and I…