This will be an abbreviated weekly report with just some thoughts on Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and a few more recent releases. I’ll bring back the usual bells and whistles next time. Continue reading
Weekly Report
Behind the Dream
This week on The Screen Addict: Selma enters the awards race with a bang, The Interview hits the Internet, a couple more late 2014 releases, and big plans for the blog next week. Continue reading
There and Back Again (Eventually)
This week on The Screen Addict: The Hobbit comes to an unceremonious end, Benedict Cumberbatch vs. the Enigma, reports of The Interview’s death were greatly exaggerated, and more.
This will be the last blog post of 2014. I might do a new Ones on 1 for New Year’s Day, but that depends on several factors. Nonetheless, we will resume our regular programming the week of January 5th, and then the following week I will reveal my picks for the best films of 2014. Since we’re in a new location, I’m thinking I’m going to do things a little differently this year. We shall see. Continue reading
Let My People D’oh
This week on The Screen Addict: only one film is brave enough to discuss the negative economic impact of freeing thousands of Hebrew slaves. Plus, a brief discussion of the embarrassing and alarming cancellation of Seth Rogen’s The Interview, a look back at Boogie Nights, MALICK COMIN’, and I’m not monkeying around with this week’s streaming recommendation. (Sorry.) Continue reading
Reese Witherspoon’s Trophy Trot
This week on The Screen Addict: Reese Witherspoon takes a walk, Eddie Redmayne becomes Stephen Hawking, two foreign imports that will rank high on my forthcoming list of the best films of the year, and the Steve Jobs movie that may never come to fruition. Oh, and did you hear there’s a new Star Wars movie coming? Continue reading
Wrestling for Meaning
This week on The Screen Addict: The frustrating chilliness of Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, going bigger and better with Interstellar, the beginning of The Hunger Games’ end, an exciting piece of James Bond news, and more. Continue reading
Where No Late-Night Host Has Gone Before
This week on The Screen Addict: Jon Stewart puts on a serious face for the big screen, Michael Keaton puts on a show in Birdman, and yes, I’m also listening to that podcast everyone else is. Read on for all that and more. Continue reading
To “Interstellar” and Beyond
So, this is the dilemma. When I rebooted my blog as “The Screen Addict” a few months back, I basically did it as a self-inflicted kick in the butt. I had stopped writing regularly, and I thought starting over might provide the appropriate motivation. Well, it did. For a while. Then various factors converged, including a busy stretch of work and non-work stuff, and there was also the very basic problem that when I got home from work, the last thing I wanted to do was get back on a computer and keep dealing with words. So, once again, I find myself changing what this blog is going to be. The goal is this: once, in the middle of (almost) every week, there will be one of these posts. I might write other stuff in between, and I plan to resume Ones on 1 in December, but this is more or less going to be it.
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