Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book to Film Adaptations, History, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Joe Wright, Oscar Predictions, David Fincher, Previews, Trailers, Fall Movie Preview, Spike Lee, The Miracle at St. Anna, Movie Trailers, Mongol, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Australia, Baz Luhrmann, The Soloist, Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes, Changeling, Clint Eastwood, Defiance, Edward Zwick, Daniel Craig, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Alexandra Maria Lara, Burn After Reading, Quantum of Solace, Ghengis Khan on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CAPTION: Ghengis Khan is all up in this yurt.
So last week I saw that flick Mongol, you know, the new epic about Ghengis Khan made by a Russian director (Sergei Bodrov), starring a Japanese dude (Tadonubo Asano), nominated for an Oscar, and inexplicably released stateside in the middle of the summer movie season. It was a pretty [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, History, Literature, Politics, Television, tagged Abigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, American History, American Revolution, Beer, Ben Franklin, Boston, Charles Adams, Danny Huston, David McCullough, David Morse, Drinking, Founding Fathers, George Washington, HBO, John Adams, John Adams Episode Guide, John Quincy Adams, Laura Linney, Miniseries, Paul Giamatti, Philadelphia, Revolutionary War, Rufus Sewel, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Hooper, Tom Wilkinson on March 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »
**This was a post in progress.
Weekly updates appeared as each episode of John Adams aired Sunday nights on HBO.
And remember, faithful viewers, Samuel Adams White Ale is the (un)official beer of HBO’s John Adams. Real Patriots Drink Samuel Adams.
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*Above: Political Propaganda circa 1776.
PREVIEW:
Ever since the demise of The Sopranos and Rome, the only thing even remotely worth [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Drinking Games, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, tagged Coen Brothers, Atonement, Juno, There Will Be Blood, Academy Awards, Oscars, No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, 80th Annual Academy Awards, Jon Stewart, Oscar Predictions, Oscar Winners, Oscar Pools on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The 80th Annual Academy Awards aired Sunday Night, February 24, 2008. Below were my predictions for the winners in the major categories. The actual winners were filled in after the Oscars were announced.
It was an off year for the Academy as they chose the absolute worst film for Best Picture as a way to finally reward the [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, The Davies, tagged Academy Awards, Alternative to the Golden Globes, Alternative to the Oscars, American Cinema, Atonement, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Brahms, D. H. Schleicher, Film Critics, Golden Globes, Juno, Oscars, The Best Films of 2007, The Davies, The Year in Review, There Will Be Blood, Top Ten List on January 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The year’s best film , There Will Be Blood, closed in a orchestral flourish with this amazing piece from Brahms. It was a fantastic way to end a wonderfully strange year at the cinema.
2007 ended up being a great year for films, possibly the best since 1999. While 2006 was consistent in its passably entertaining mediocrity, filmmakers seemed to take more chances in 2007 [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Movie Reviews, Movies, tagged Helena Bonham Carter, Horror, Johnny Depp, Musical, Operetta, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton, Victorian London on December 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Grim Musical OJ’s the Audience, 22 December 2007
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Tim Burton’s gleefully macabre adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical smash hit “Sweeney Todd” is the strangest holiday season Oscar bait to come out of Hollywood…well, ever. I’ll be the first to admit I am not a fan of film musicals as [...]
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CAPTION: Dave, you’ve been forcing me to read your blog for how long?
So it was one year ago today that I reluctantly entered the blogosphere primarily as a way to promote my novel, The Thief Maker, which continues to accumulate accolades and new readers through my grassroots marketing campaign.
Now it seems like I can’t live without blogging. [...]
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Amy Adams, you first came to my attention as the very talkative, very pregnant North Carolinian in 2005’s Junebug. It was the type of scene stealing performance in a small indie film that critics gush over, and it rightfully earned you an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress. While the film was forgettable, you were completely charming and reminded me [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, History, Inspiration, Literature, Pop Culture, tagged Bram Stoker, Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Irene Nemirovsky, Iris Murdoch, Nick Tosches, R. L. Fisher, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner on October 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Halloween always brings to mind that classic of gothic literature, Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
This is a novel that has so enamored me over the years I once took a class dedicated solely to the study of it line by line. The mythology it created is still alive and well today (witness the recent box office champ 30 Days [...]
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Posted in Art, Arts and Entertainment, Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, Inspiration, Literature, tagged William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Quint Buchholz on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel the work of art displayed below, “On the Way, Open Book” by Quint Buchholz accurately displays the mindset I was in this summer while reading and writing…
During this long, hot seemingly endless summer while nursing the early stages of a new novel into being, I also dug deep into the classics for inspiration and went on [...]
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In response to last week’s list of the Best Films of All Time, I have decided to name the Worst Films of All Time.
Talking about the films you hate is sometimes even more subjective than talking about the films you love. I know that sometimes I carry a personal vendetta against certain directors or stars who have made me [...]
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