Tag: Actor
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Eye Candy: Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall”
Aside from the fact that this 2006 masterpiece from director Tarsem Singh (Mirror Mirror, The Cell) is a visual triumph, it also stars Julliard grad, Lee Pace (TV’s Pushing Daisies, Spielberg’s Lincoln) in one of his first major film roles. Not only is this film visually stunning, the story and the methods used to direct…
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Two By Two: Time Travel Edition (Somewhere in Time & Peggy Sue Got Married)
I could have gone the typical route in comparing time travel movies and done this with Back to the Future and something else; however, I think the comparison between these two movies is an interesting one. Somewhere in Time deals with a man who deliberately tries to go back in time and use time travel…
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VHS Vault: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Back in the day, the motto of every video store yes, VIDEO store, was “Be Kind. Rewind.” Embracing the current movement to be “retro” I’m going to talk about a little movie called Brighton Beach Memoirs. Adapted from the play by Neil Simon of the same name, Memoirs chronicles the life of Eugene Jerome as he…