Zombieland isn’t exactly a movie that I feel inclined to wax philosophical about. I’m not going to write up a long winded review or anything. It doesn’t deserve my beautiful prose. I’m just going to wing it, so here goes. What do I love about zombie movies? It’s that sense that the entire world has collapsed into despair, that the […]
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As usual, Wistful Writer will not spoil movies he reflects on. There are no major spoilers here, only one very minor one. “Observe and Report”. As a security professional myself, I immediately recognized the phrase. It is a phrase used to summarize the some of the primary duties of a security officer. It is not the place of a security officer […]
I got sick over the summer, came down with some major flu or something. During that time, I took the chance to watch a couple of long movies I had put off for a while. One of them was Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. It was this film that turned me into a lover of Western films. […]
Friday night. I’m a single man who isn’t out on the prowl for young ladies. I’m looking for a good time though. So what do I do? I flip through the long list of movies that I still haven’t watched. I just finished a How I Met Your Mother binge, and was still in the mood for light heartedness. Passing on Napoleon Dynamite, […]
I had made my decision to move from writing for film to writing a novel a while ago. I wish I had come across this article first: it would’ve sped up my decision making process. The article clarifies my instincts and expresses what I felt about the distinction between the two mediums.
I had written about my criticism of most romantic movies a small while ago. Now, I normally didn’t have such a critical eye with romantic movies prior to my realization. But ever since then, I started to be more critical of romance movies. Anyway, I have a terrible memory, so my commentary about The Ugly Truth (which I saw last week) might be […]
Take a look at my posts. Many of them are rather long winded. I take five hundred words to say what can be said in less than half that. That’s just the way I am. I prefer lengthy writing that is intricate and nuanced. I enjoy telling a story and framing my message a certain way. I found that the screenplay was […]
