Stephen King’s It (the first of 2 reboots) released today in USA and hopefully soon elsewhere. I’m going to wait till DVD though. Still I’m looking forward to it! This is going to be interesting. Hopefully it will be better than the 90’s tv movie which had its strengths but reached nowhere near the depthContinue reading “looking forward – big day today in USA for Stephen King fans!”
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Tombstone (1993) – Dir: George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: part 2, Cobra)
Cosmatos has directed some really bad movies. I really don’t want to insult the guy, but it kinda feels like Tombstone is a great movie despite the director. Unless you credit him for the performances, the film isn’t directed particularly well. The story and the performances are just so bloody good that this film isContinue reading “Tombstone (1993) – Dir: George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: part 2, Cobra)”
True Romance (1993) – Dir: Tony Scott (The Last Boy Scout, Spy Game)
If you haven’t seen this film, I feel sorry for you. It’s a Tarantino script and his best, in my opinion. Directed by the late, great Tony Scott and starring Christian Slater in his most empathetic role (Clarence Worley) and Patricia Arquette (Alabama – that’s her name) at her sexiest and possibly, most powerful; TheContinue reading “True Romance (1993) – Dir: Tony Scott (The Last Boy Scout, Spy Game)”
My Top 5 Movies of the 90’s (a series of articles)
Top 5 movies of ’93, ’94, ’96 and ‘99 1993 True Romance Tombstone Dazed and Confused Jurassic Park The Nightmare Before Christmas 1994 Night of the Demons 2 Oleanna Brainscan Airheads Shallow Grave 1996 Tromeo and Juliet Basquiat Crash Trainspotting Scream 1999 Sunshine Galaxy Quest Audition The Boondock Saints eXistenZ
Nightwatch (the watch trilogy: book one) By Sergei Lukyanenko
Originally Published in Another Language (Russian) Others, they walk among us. Others are magicians, sorcerers, shape-shifters, demons. Those who use magic. Who see the twilight. Who have great power, power that allows them to live a life beyond what we know as ordinary. They serve the dark, or the light – or they have yetContinue reading “Nightwatch (the watch trilogy: book one) By Sergei Lukyanenko”
Speaker for the Dead (Beyond Ender Series) by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead is the first book in the Beyond Ender series, but it is also a standalone sequel to the Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction epic novel, Ender’s Game. Speaker also won both Hugo and Nebula awards. Ender’s Game was about Andrew Wiggin, a gifted young boy, whose mind was his greatestContinue reading “Speaker for the Dead (Beyond Ender Series) by Orson Scott Card”
Graphic Novel – The Sandman: vol. 1, Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
I am new to Neil Gaiman and to the hit graphic novel series The Sandman. Although I am familiar with the character who inspired the series (The Sandman from DC comics’ Justice Society of America – the very first superhuman team, preceding the great and wonderful Justice League of America and written in the sameContinue reading “Graphic Novel – The Sandman: vol. 1, Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman”
CREWING FOR MOVIES – AN EXPERIENCE
The Beast – a good scene, a failed short movie (2000) When I first started making movies, I was inexperienced, so I didn’t realise how difficult making short movies would be. So I would write these epic, intricate, sweeping, complex stories. Then I would shoot the first few frames and I would find that IContinue reading “CREWING FOR MOVIES – AN EXPERIENCE”
CREWING FOR MOVIES 2 – AN EXPERIENCE
The Poltergeist Movie: Part One (script development) Somewhere in the middle of 2010, I put an advert on the New Zealand Art and Creative Website called The Big Idea – my advert described an opportunity to make a short movie without a budget – my ad explicitly stated that I had a mini digital video camera (notContinue reading “CREWING FOR MOVIES 2 – AN EXPERIENCE”
CREWING FOR MOVIES 3 – AN EXPERIENCE
The Poltergeist Movie: Part Two (Principal Photography) On day one of the shoot, our SFX guy had done some research and had found out that cooked pumpkin-mush mixed with red food colouring can give the effect of blood and guts. We mixed the red food colouring with some blue, to darken it. I cooked aContinue reading “CREWING FOR MOVIES 3 – AN EXPERIENCE”
the joy of eating and the folly of thinking 