Author: tederick
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART TWO
When we were young So that’s me. Ten years and out. I picked up my first Harry Potter novel just a few months over ten years ago, which was right around the time the first trailer for the first Harry Potter film made its appearance. You know where it went from there, as the twin threads of books and…
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Review: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATRILOGY
Burn all the rapists In February, with the arrival of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the end of 2011 staring us in the face, and having never read the books, I took home the Swedish version of the movie trilogy to warm myself up to the material. There was always so much fuss…
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Review: The ROCKY Movies
Yo! I am now a leading authority on the Rocky movies. Five days ago, I hadn’t seen any of them. Now I’ve seen ’em all. You know that theme? I’ve heard it a lot lately. I won the “Undisputed Collection” Blu-ray set about a year ago, collecting the entire series. It has sat on the shelf. I had been…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART ONE
The long, sad end of the road Look, at this point you’re either on board with Harry Potter or you’re not. Those who disdain the films (or the books) will find nothing in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One, to redirect them. Those who care about what’s going on here – and there are a lot…
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Pure Cinema and the Serendipity of Visual Storytelling: Firework Nutshot Fail
I have never been much predisposed to believe in karma, but my newfound fondness for / obsession with “fail” videos has me looking over my shoulder and considering the Greater Forces. I predict that if there are truly any laws of karmic balance governing our universe, I will shortly fall victim to some sort of…
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Review: SPIDER-MAN 3
The Best Bad Movie Ever Made Lookit: making movies is hard, man. You have to be on top of so many things. You have to have a clear vision, and you need to carry it out. You need to construct something that has unity, clarity, and coherence. It can’t just go along in a straight…
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Review: AVATAR
The dreams of Iron Jim There’s a man who can’t walk, but in his dreams he can stride out into an alien wilderness and run. The man is Jim Cameron, and if he is known to be a tyrant, perhaps it’s only because he’s spent so much of his life stuck in that damn wheelchair.…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
The Ghost Story I’ve given the Harry Potter films an easy ride over the years. Flat raves for the Columbus films (stylistically, they hew closest to the spirit of their respective novels). Warm enthusiasm for films 3 and 5, each sharply told by talented directors. This leaves the mishmash Goblet of Fire as the only outright rejection, but coming…