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 Awards, Books, Literature, Publishing, The Thief Maker, tagged D. H. Schleicher, Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer Awards, Finalists, Hopewell Publications, Independent Books, Philosophy on April 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Nearly a year and a half after its publication, my novel The Thief Maker continues to accumulate accolades.
The Thief Maker was recently named a Finalist in the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Books.
Though it will not be taking home one of the grand prizes, being named a Finalist places The Thief Maker in “the top [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Drinking Games, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, tagged 80th Annual Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Atonement, Coen Brothers, Jon Stewart, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, Oscar Pools, Oscar Predictions, Oscar Winners, Oscars, There Will Be Blood 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 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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The Thief Maker will be awarded Honorable Mention in the Genre Fiction Category in the Writer’s Digest 15th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards.
A complete list of winners will be forthcoming on the Writer’s Digest website and the books will be promoted in the March/April 2008 issue of Writer’s Digest.
The Thief Maker is on the shelves [...]
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So apparently for the past few years they’ve been compiling a list of finalists and close to 100 million people from all over the world have been voting by internet and by phone to determine the New Seven Wonders of the World. I had no idea this “Architectural/Monument Idol” was going on, but found the results [...]
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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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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book to Film Adaptations, History, Inspiration, Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, Psychology, tagged Cult Films/TV, David Lynch on June 26, 2007 | 14 Comments »
AFI (the American Film Institute) recently updated their list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.
Not to be outdone, I present to you my list of the greatest films of all time. You will notice their number one pick is absent from my list…however, there are some shared views. During my first 27 years [...]
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The 79th Annual Academy Awards aired Sunday Night, February 25, 2007.
Below were my predictions for the winners in the major categories. The actual winners were filled in after the Oscars were announced.
PREDICTIONS/WINNERS:
Best Picture:
Predicted: The Departed
Possible Upset: Babel or Little Miss Sunshine
Winner: The Departed
Best Director:
Predicted: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Possible Upset: Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Winner: [...]
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