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Posted by on Nov 15, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 1 comment

Movie Review: About Time

 

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What if you could go back in time.  Would you?

If given the opportunity, I suppose most of us would choose to rewind and relive certain events in our lives over again.  We’d try to fix what we messed up.  Correct mistakes we made.  Take back something we said.

Then again — would our lives actually turn out any better if we could do them over and over until we finally got it right?  What about the lives of those around us?  Wouldn’t their lives be disrupted too and turn out differently?  What if everyone else is perfectly happy with how things turned out the first time around?  Do they get to voice an opinion?  These are a few of the serious questions worth pondering in the new film “About Time.”

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Posted by on Oct 5, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 0 comments

The Powerful Force of “Gravity” (Movie Review)

 

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Gravity is an extraordinary movie and arguably the year’s best film.

A visual and technical marvel and sensory tour de force, this new film written and directed by Mexican-born Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men) is a quantum leap forward from all previous space movies, undoubtedly raising the creative bar to unprecedented new heights — a few hundred miles above planet earth to be more precise.  Future movies within this genre are likely to be compared against Gravity as a new benchmark, most unfortunately destined to crash land far short of their target.

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Posted by on Oct 1, 2013 in Blog, Book Reviews, Movie Reviews, Personal | 5 comments

Did the 2007 Academy Awards Kill the Stu Ungar Movie?

 

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Executive Producer Graham King at the 2007 Academy Awards, accepting the Best Picture Oscar

 

Anyone who’s aware of the Stu Ungar story knows there’s a great movie to be made about his life.  Yes, I’m biased since I co-wrote Ungar’s biography with Peter Alson titled One of a Kind:  The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘the Kid’ Ungar.

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