Fun With Dick and Jane
The Dick and Jane children’s books were created in the 1950’s about two children who grew up together. Many books have been published about the children for children that included an easy to read sentence on each page of only maybe five or six words. The original Fun with Dick and Jane, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starred George Segal as Dick Harper and Jane Fond as Jane Harper. The two are now a married couple, who have lost their money and had to hold armed robberies in order…
There seem to be two movies intercut with one another. The first is a story about Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his haphazard plan to make a movie, the details of which he hasn’t completely sorted out. The second centers on the relationship between an out-of-work vaudeville actor, Ann Darrow…
My childhood memories of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe evoke two different emotions in me: first, I remember my second grade teacher (and first love) reading to us after lunch time…so I was of course doubly enthralled by the experience. My second, and most vivid memory, is of crying my eyes out while…
Sunrise on a desert. In the haze, there are throngs of migrant workers crowding around buses. The scene is emblematic of one of many central themes struggling to be heard in this movie. The very next scene takes us into a city—a party in stark contrast to what we’re used to seeing when the media feeds us imagery of the Middle East. Bob Barnes (George Clooney) is asked by a friend, “Have you ever tried…
I went to this movie thinking that it was going to play out like the brainchild of a few marketing execs sitting around patting themselves on the back for figuring out a way to milk the last drops from the “extreme”-everything trend that has dumbed down product marketing over the last two years. I even seem to recall there was a run of “extreme” sugar-loaded kids snacks somewhere in the midst of…
The story opens in the present with Charlie scanning the frozen plains near Wichita, Kansas while he waxes philosophical about the possibility of pulling of the perfect crime. As the film flashes back to the previous day in which the story unfolds you’ll soon realize that Charlie’s definition of “perfect†is about as accurate as that of a drunken frat boy wearing…