Munich Film Festing Away: Opening Weekend
While I am generally not one to discuss opening weekend box office receipts, it is quite intriguing to embark on …
Category Archives: Musings
Past Imperfect – X-Men: Days of Future Past
I’ve spoken often of my status as a lapsed comic book geek. My adolescence was spent making the weekly pilgrimage, …
Call and Response: Frank Pavich (‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’)
Final day at the Toronto International Film Festival (2013) and I found myself sitting at a tiny back table across …
Transcending ‘Transcendence’ From a Marvel Framework
So much has been made, in the trades and the comic book fandom circles, about the dream of bringing Johnny …
‘Le Week-End’ Offers a Different Escape from the Everyday
An idiosyncratic gem from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival gets unearthed this week here in the Nati. From writer …
Call & Response: Director Denis Henry Hennelly (“Goodbye World”)
Welcome to a new spotlight feature on the terrencetodd blog. A conversational snippet from phone interviews with filmmakers. One question, …
‘Bad Words’ From Jason Bateman Are To Be Expected
Jessica Rabbit, in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, informed us that she wasn’t bad, she was just drawn that way, and …
The Comfort of Familiarity: “Tyler Perry’s Single Moms Club” & “Veronica Mars”
tt stern-enzi I find it interesting that Lionsgate never advance screens a Tyler Perry film in the Midwestern market I …
The Urban Character Onscreen
tt stern-enzi David Simon brings anger and hope to America The current media age forces those of us working as …
Revisiting Reel Tiny Valentines from the 1980s
tt stern-enzi Endlessly Getting it Wrong I was ten years old at the start of the 1980s, already a fledgling …
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