Category Archives: The Chest Desire

I watched the three Star Wars movies (New Hope, Empire Strikes and Return of the Jedi), scrutinizing the scripts and looking for inconsistencies. Watching them, I find it amazing how the elder Jedi masters consistently talk around the subject when … Continue reading →

I decided to step through the frames of the movie ‘The Core’ (2003). Somewhere in one of the extra features, the director (Jon Amiel) mentions a specific ‘easter egg’. You’ll find that fish somewhere in chapter II, in the scene … Continue reading →

Via Slashdot, an article about making a homebrew DVR. However, I’m not impressed: you don’t need a Windows computer, commercial PC DVR software, commercial DVD player software or even Cygwin to make such a thing. I mean, Cygwin to run … Continue reading →

I read Dvorak’s pessimistic editorial about the state of game development. While I agree with his basic conclusion that ‘it’s the same game over and over’, I’d like to add that the same is true for movies. Back in the … Continue reading →

I don’t curse but I doze off for a minute while watching CNN: there was some kind of commercial from the ‘Concerned citizens of whatever’ with a typical political spiel (in this case Republican). Yadda-yadda-Social-Security. A second later, when I … Continue reading →

Night Shyamalan’s second movie, Unbreakable, didn’t quite meet the expectations after the director’s popular smash hit ‘The Sixth Sense’. And although reviews of ‘Unbreakable’ were mixed, even Ebert sees a couple of highlights:    “Even if the ending doesn’t entirely succeed, … Continue reading →

Can you make a good movie without any blood, screaming people or flashy effects? Apparently you can as Alan Pakula’s ‘All The President’s Men‘ shows. The movie is carried by two of Hollywood greatest actors, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. … Continue reading →

Ang Lee’s ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon’ earned two Oscars in 2000: one for the best original sound, and one for the best foreign movie. Although by many viewed as a martial arts flick, Crouching Tiger offers a lot more than … Continue reading →

Hailed as one of the best movies of the year 2000, Sonderbergh’s ‘Traffic’ has the Douglas couple playing (Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones) the main characters. Douglas plays a conservative judge who spearheads a new Anti-Drugs team only to discovers … Continue reading →

Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone, features actors Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz in a rather unusual movie: a sports movie. Better yet, an American Football movie. Pacino plays a manager who has too many conflicts with a (young) … Continue reading →

Is it good? Is it bad? Apparantly the movie was less popular when it was just released in 1968, but during the years it has claimed its little corner in photograpic history. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssee” is definitely … Continue reading →