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Movie review and director interview: The Messenger

Oren Moverman didn't set out to direct The Messenger, the film made from the script he co-wrote with Alessandro Camon. In fact, he'd never directed a movie before. But when it came time for the producers to ramp up the project, Moverman was given the ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ben Foster,  Woody Harrelson,  Oren Moverman,  Will Montgomery,  Jena Malone

Movie review: Ong Bak 2

The first thing to know about Ong Bak 2 is that you don't need to have seen Ong Bak in order to appreciate it. In fact, anyone who looks to a film like Ong Bak for its dramatic narrative would be better served by focusing on traditional forms of ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tony Jaa

Movie review: The Blind Side

Let's not kid ourselves: A clinical analysis of the story behind The Blind Side would lead one to the conclusion that it's little more than a white conservative's feel-good philanthropist fable (with a Southern twang). But, in terms of one's filmgoing ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tim McGraw,  John Lee (football),  Michael Lewis,  Michael Oher,  Sandra Bullock

Movie review: Antichrist

Lars von Trier's stunning new film Antichrist is strong stuff indeed. Whether you take it as a dark surrealist fantasy, a harrowing psychodrama, a nighmarish, impressionist allegory, or a horror movie with Biblical end-time overtones, you are likely to ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lars von Trier,  Willem Dafoe

Video interview: Jeffrey Jacoby, program director for the Texas Campaign for the Environment

Exciting news from the EPA today: Dr. Al Armendariz, an SMU engineering professor and environmental advocate from Dallas, was appointed to head our EPA region! To help secure an environmentally sound appointee - and to prevent a well-connected industry ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  White House

Film screening opportunity: Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul at the Dallas Museum of Art

I trekked downtown last Wednesday to have a look at the 60-minute-long documentary, Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul. I viewed the film in a cul-de-sac off the main exhibit hall, in the company of half a dozen other brave souls willing to subject ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Isadora Duncan,  Ray Bradbury

Movie review and talent interviews: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

If, however, you're jonesing for a spectacularly choreographed, artfully filmed shoot 'em up in the bloody tradition of Sam Pekinpah or John Woo, you will be delighted. As those who've seen the first Boondock Saints are aware, that film was light on ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Julie Benz,  John Woo,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Norman Reedus,  Billy Connolly

Movie review and filmmaker interview: Tenure

When I spoke by phone recently with writer/director Mike Million, I was pleased to learn that he had, in fact, read Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis' biting, hilarious, novelized account of the trials and tribulations of a college professor battling for ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kingsley Amis,  David Koechner,  Sasha Alexander,  Gretchen Mol

Photos and video: Dallas premiere of Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Welcome reception for Boondock Saints II at the Angelika Dallas Devin Pike and two painted ladies Things turned out heavenly on Thursday night at the Angelika Dallas, with the arrival of three principals from the new movie Boondock Saints II: All ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Troy Duffy,  All Saints (musician),  John Woo,  Willem Dafoe,  Billy Connolly

Movie review: 2012

In writing about 2012, director Roland Emmerich's latest picture, I feel that I really ought to be using ALL CAPS FOR THE ENTIRE REVIEW! NOT TO MENTION LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! (!!!!!) BECAUSE IT'S JUST THAT KIND OF A FILM! And by that, I mean ...

From JOHN P. MEYER, Pegasus News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Woody Harrelson,  White House,  Roland Emmerich,  John Fitzgerald Kennedy,  Irwin Allen

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