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With approximately ten gazillion alien creatures packed into the Star Wars universe, you can count on there being one to creep out almost anybody. Some of the most memorable creatures in the original films could have easily carried their own horror stories, adding excitement and danger to these beloved classics with their inventively threatening designs [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Amidala, CGI, Colorado, Dianoga, energy sucking parasite, Entertainment, epic films, Ewok, film, food source, George Lucas, Haha, Hutt, Jabba, Jabba the Hutt, kouhun, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, Puppets, queen, Sarlacc, Series, Space Slug, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Temptor, The Acklay, The Mynocks, The Opee Sea Killer, The Rancor, The Sarlacc, the Star, The Star Tribune Company, The Wampa, Wampa
In the 80 or so years of its existence, the Academy Awards has made some poor choices. Dances With the Wolves over Goodfellas? Bleh. And try finding someone who could justify The Greatest Show On Earth or Around the World In 80 Days winning- let alone getting nominated. The list goes on. We know what [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Filed under Movies · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American film directors, American Film Institute, Around the World In 80 Days, Cinema of the United States, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, epic films, Faye Dunaway, film, full metal jacket, Grand Illusion, It Happened One Night, Jack Nicholson, La Grande Illusion, Network, orson welles, Reds, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver, The Grapes of Wrath, The Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vittorio Storaro, vivien leigh, You Can't Take It With You
Foreign language films, that is “non-English” to westerners, are generally ignored by American audiences. Many friends complain to me that “I don’t want to read subtitles”. It can be a little distracting to look away from the visual image, especially if it’s a well shot film. Unfortunately, the alternative is usually some pretty bad dubbing, [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 1:26 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Actors, american audiences, Andrei Chalimon, Antonio Gades, artistic achievement, bad dubbing, Battle Beyond the Stars, bernardo bertolucci, carlos suara, carmen, Chinese films, chungking express, cinema paradiso, city of god, Danny Boyle, epic films, fallen angels, Faye Wong, film, films, foreign films, Foreign language films, foreign movies, France, Gerard Depardieu, great films, Hero, Hong Kong, India, jan sverak, jean de florette, Jean-Luis Trintingant, Jet Li, katia lund, kolya, language films, Laura del Sol, martial arts director, mira nair, movie, Movies, Oscar, salaam bombay, Slumdog Millionaire, soap opera, Spain, spanish film, The conformist, The Last Emperor, The Magnificent Seven, The Seven Samurai, western films, wong kar-wai, youtube, Yves Montand, Zhang Yimou
