Category: movie musings

Apparently, I am not the only one with Brokeback on the brain… it was just nominated for seven golden globes. SEVEN. Including best picture. I haven’t even seen it yet, and I have goose pimples thinking about it. I can’t wait. But, I did notice that there is no love for Jake. What is up with that? Doesn’t this boy deserve something!? Did they not see Jarhead? That was worth something! I’m just saying.

Other than Brokeback Mountain, there were a lot of other very noticeable nominations, at least to me, that prove you really aren’t risking your career by playing it gay (or transgendered), as it was said in Entertainment Weekly earlier this month. (Hello! Look at Hillary Swank! Nuff said!) The amazing Felicity Huffman was nominated for her role in Transamerica; Cillian Murphy was nominated for his role in Breakfast on Pluto; and the AMAZING Phillip Seymour Hoffman was nominated for his role as Truman Capote in the aptly titled, Capote. So, um, eat that EW; and anyone else that thinks playing a gay or transgendered character could some how harm your career! It pays to play gay (and transgendered)!

I want to wish everyone in those films the utmost success and, while you all can’t win (since you are in the same categories… dammit!), I do thank you for stepping out there and playing gay. It does take courage, and we surely appreciate it! Now if only some smoking hot actor/actress in Hollywood would come out of the closet; I figure since so many are playing, it is time for some to start being!! I’ve got my fingers crossed about a few people…

I wish I knew how to quit you…

At long last; here it is!

First of all, I have a few things to say before I get to the review of the Goblet of Fire. If you are like, “dammit, this is like the 108475893749857389475893745983475th review I have seen of Harry Potter…”; save it, because I asked before I wrote it to see if anyone was interested. I felt 5 was a good number, and 5 obliged, so we are moving forward. Second, my review may have quite a few spoilers in it, but, and I believe I have said this before; the book came out several years ago containing, miraculously, the entire story the movie is based on. So, well, the book beat me by several years on the whole spoiler thing. If you don’t want to see these so called spoilers, look away children. Third and final thing, I just want to say, I can’t believe they strayed so much from the book by letting Ron die instead of Cedric Diggery. I mean, how are they going to fix that in the next movie?!?! (here’s where I am fucking with you!!!) Enough with the silliness. Here’s my review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!

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Lucky enough to be given a free screening pass for one my most antici…pated movies of the entire year, I went and saw RENT last night. And here’s what I thought:

RENT opens in silence, but then, when you hear the first few notes of “Seasons of Love”, it strikes you hard; for you realize you are about to experience something different. Either different because you have never heard this song before; or different, because this is not the way RENT is supposed to open. It becomes apparent very quickly that Chris Columbus has changed some things; moved songs, removed songs, reworked story boards, and refocused characters. But don’t worry; overall it works.

Every song, every scene, you will feel even closer to the musical that so many have loved since its debut on Broadway, almost ten years ago. While some of you will scoff at the changes, and may see them as a detriment to the overall feeling the musical was meant to portray (the bohemian spirit of living for the day, and the undying sense of true love), fear not, because the spirit of RENT is whole and intact. While watching the movie, my overwhelming sense was the creation of a third dimension; to both the characters and the scenes, either of which may have been somewhat two dimensional in the stage version. The movie provides a visual landscape, that contextualizes many story elements that, while present on the stage, were limited by the nature of stage presentation. Overall, I felt the movie went deeper, and with that, it succeeded. It brought me back to the early nineties, and gives the viewer the effect of opening a time capsule, where they find grunge, poverty, spirit, and youth tucked inside. The movie stays true to the original intentions of the play, and establishes the feeling of the early nineties wonderfully; it even feels like this movie was made in the early nineties.

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