Lately, I’ve spent a lot of blog inches on the big films — Avatar, Robin Hood, The Last Airbender. Its time to get back to my roots. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I was a journalist in New York championing low-budget and no-budget films. I worked among a loosely organized community of [...]
Archives for July 2010
Roman Polanski’s Release
These last two days, I have been watching the media clamor on Roman Polanski’s release with the same anguish I felt when I learned of his arrest last September. In fact, it was that event that prompted me to begin this blog. If you click on the “Roman Polanski” category to your right, you will [...]
What Went Wrong With The Last Airbender?
One of my students e-mailed me this week to make a request. “I’ve been secretly hoping,” he said, “that you will cover a movie you might not have a reason to see: The Last Airbender. After my wife and I saw it, she said she liked the story, but thought it was poorly written and [...]
Robin Hood Revisited
Sorry I’ve been away for a while. I’ve been having fun. Doing exactly what, I’ll get to in a moment. But first a little background. While working on my last post about Robin Hood, I did some prowling around the internet and found this interesting story about “the other two writers.” You know, the two [...]