Back on April 26th– nearly two months ago– I reviewed The Love Guru based on one three-minute trailer shown on NBC. In fact, I seem to remember saying something like it “looks like one of the worst movies to come along in quite a while.”
From the IMDb:
Mike Myers’s The Love Guru , which is being [...]

A few months back I mentioned I finished a feature-length screenplay. This is not really news per se: I’m sure yours is coming along nicely. But if ya ask me it’s what you do with the finished manuscript that’s important.
Last fall John (the co-writer of the thing) and I took a free half-hour of advice [...]

The odyssey that is “Arrangements” sort of met it’s logical conclusion. It was programmed into a screening block called “Homegrown,” a showcase for Santa Cruz filmmakers. It took place in the afternoon, between a women-themed program and one on African hip-hop. The screening venue was the Regal Cinemas Riverfront Theatre, a big ol’ twin-plex [...]

I’m proud of TPN:: Box Office Weekly. I believe the editorial and critical content on these pages is of a generally higher level than most media-news blogsites. At the end of the film Ratatouille, the food critic Anton Ego put forth a splendid little summary of what criticism truly is. I’ll excerpt it here:
In [...]

Having seen “Arrangements,” I soon saw the importance of getting the film ready for it’s life on the festival circuit. The first step to this end is preparing a definitive tape master: the other is showing those who actually made the film the need to do so.
Really, nobody needed convincing: the short was shot and [...]

Readers of this blog will notice an essential difference between Daniel’s writing style and mine. I’m not talking about the profound ones: It is self-evident that Daniel is a quick-witted, cynical Hollywood insider, and I’m the droll, semi-academic media observer with a thing for animated chicks. No- I’m talking about title showings.
According to the style [...]

The ol’ Trek-o-Meter, that linear scale used to track the intensity of one’s Star Trek fandom essayed in these pages last July, apparently isn’t quite ready to be retired yet. For one thing, there is finally a new original cast Star Trek movie in production, with Chris Pine (Smokin’ Aces) as Kirk and Simon Pegg [...]

Got to spend the weekend up in Lake Tahoe with family. Tahoe is a large high mountain lake that straddles the border between California and Nevada. It’s mean level is 6225 feet (1898 meters) above sea level. I’m a sea level sort of guy, which meant the first evening I was up there I [...]

I’ve actually seen “Arrangements.” And not just in my head this time.
On Saturday, March 22 a cast and crew screening of the very-nearly-finished short was arranged at the Mill Gallery in Santa Cruz. The screening proper took place in a spacious open mezzanine above the main gallery floor.
And when I say cast and crew screening, [...]

Last weekend my niece Abigail reached a milestone in her young life– she was taken to her first movie.
This event is a sort of maturity marker for parents– To take a very young child to a theatres makes some basic assumptions: Will he or she sit still for two hours? Will he or she understand, [...]