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-100 posts tagged "Movies"
Aidan O'Malley | Friday, September 11, 2020
Disney live action remakes are a special kind of cinematic purgatory. Few of them are truly irredeemable; you can always count on lavish production design, ornate costumes and some solid VFX. But in service of what? “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin” — these movies are soulless. I’m not sure a studio has ever been
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, September 8, 2020
How do you solve a problem like Charlie Kaufman? Perhaps “problem” is the wrong word. Puzzle? Riddle? Rabbit hole? The Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Being John Malkovich” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” — more recently the director of “Synecdoche, New York” and “Anomalisa” — is one of my favorite filmmakers, but he doesn’t make
Colleen Fischer | Friday, September 4, 2020
TikTok made me do it. I have been saying that more than I ever thought was possible prior to quarantine, but alas, here we are; “Phineas and Ferb’s” creator Dan Povenmire took to TikTok to promote “Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe.” The opening of this movie is great, with an upbeat song
Aidan O'Malley | Monday, August 31, 2020
I’ll be honest, I only watched this movie because we’ve been trapped in our dorms for two weeks. That being said, I could have done a lot worse with 90 minutes than “The One and Only Ivan,” the newest addition to the Disney+ catalog and the latest film to forego a theatrical release. I feel
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Last Friday, movie theaters opened their doors for the first time in what felt like forever. All across the country — or rather, across certain parts of it — you could have seen “Unhinged,” a road rage B-movie starring Russell Crowe. You could have, but evidently you did not. Netflix is counting on your caution.
Jake Winningham | Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Yesterday I ran through numbers 10-1 on my ranking of the top 20 movies about journalism. I finish my list today with stops in Russia, the Watergate Hotel and, to start the countdown, the San Francisco Bay. “Zodiac” (2007) David Fincher’s “Zodiac” is a rarity amongst journalism films: the story at the heart of the
Ryan Israel and Mike Donovan | Friday, May 15, 2020
It’s time to turn the clock back to what, in retrospect, seems like a simpler time: late summer 2016. The class of 2020 first arrived on campus via an “Ultralight Beam,” looking forward to four years of academic and faith “Formation” and dreaming of staying up “All Night” with friends. Not yet “Destroyed by Hippie Powers,”
Luke Sisung | Tuesday, March 31, 2020
During this dreadful time of isolation, I have decided to spend a decent portion of my free time watching movies I consider valuable. This catalog of movies ranges from Hitchcock classics to “Finding Nemo.” Typically, when one sees a great movie, there is some willingness to watch that movie again at a later time. Through
Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan and Jake Winningham | Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Always the ones to seek the positive in a negative situation, Scene sees these next few weeks of online classes and social distancing as an opportunity to catch up on shows and movies, read a good book and connect with our minds and souls. This can also give you the motivation to start that really
Jake Winningham | Thursday, October 3, 2019
Yesterday, I counted down the 20-11 spots on my list of the best films from 20 years ago. Today, I’m joined by a group of ornery Colorado children, a particularly talented impostor and John Malkovich to list the 10 best movies of 1999. “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” (directed by Trey Parker and