“What Just Happened” to Robert De Niro?
By: Dan Jones My favorite actor of all time. Or, at least of a time. A time when everything he did mattered. Have you seen [...]
General Movie Topics
Ordinary People
By: Dan Jones (For a brief blurb on “Ordinary People,” go to our BOOKS TO MOVIES section.) No, they’re not extraordinary. They may sense, or [...]
Movie Industry Related
Calling All Artists, Calling All Artists
By: Dan Jones Part 1 Imagine you are a highly-paid editor for one of the most reputable magazines. You love the hunt, the blood, the [...]
Films From Way Back
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Movie Lists
The Role of a Lifetime
By: Dan Jones NOTE: After researching this category, as I always do before stating any carefully-examined list, I’ll admit I have my fair share of [...]
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Recent Films
Books to Movies – “Hunger Games”
By: Dan Jones (For a brief blurb on “Hunger Games,” go to our BOOKS TO MOVIES section.) One may read a book before the movie. [...]
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“21 Jump Street” Review – Late and Lazy
By: Dan Jones A woman walks in on a man, steaming, wrapped in a towel. “Take your time,” she says. In the following scene: A [...]
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General Movie Topics Recent Films“Bitter Moon” rising
By: Dan Jones The MPAA gives “Bitter Moon” an R rating for the strong depiction of a perverse sexual relationship. For example, Peter Coyote (as [...]
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Films From Way Back Movie Lists Recent FilmsThe End? (Open-ended movie endings)
By: Dan Jones This list* has been compiled to help viewers understand what qualifies as an open-ended movie ending. Amusing, what some people perceive as [...]
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General Movie Topics Recent FilmsDo It for the Children
By: Dan Jones Do It for the Children Novels, movies, cartoons, special effects, posters, T-shirts, book order forms, and the attractiveness of it all. Once [...]
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General Movie Topics Recent FilmsThat’s Funny
By: Dan Jones Is Jerry Lewis strictly for the French? Are the Three Stooges only for balding husbands? Does Will Ferrell annoy everyone? Because many [...]
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General Movie Topics Movie Lists Recent Films“I Have My Reasons” (Year’s Top 25 Movies)
By: Dan Jones The Best Movies of 2011 (For web-searching purposes, I could’ve called this “The Best Movies of 2011,” but are they the best?) [...]
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Recent Films“CRASH” – Worst Picture
By: Dan Jones Back in 2007, I wrote a mini-review on this piece of junk, this heap of warped and scratched remains of an accident [...]
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General Movie Topics Recent Films“The Illusionist” – Not the One with Ed Norton
By: Dan Jones When the Borders store franchise closed, DVDs were 1,000% off (give or take). This made the Blu-rays run anywhere from 10 to [...]
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Films From Way Back Recent FilmsO Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou?
By: Dan Jones The modern influence. The tommy-gun firing dialogue. The Roderick Jaynes – editor (look him up). The Joel director, Ethan producer. The boys [...]
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Movie Industry RelatedA World of NETFLIX
By: Dan Jones [Continued from a previous article, more or less.] Again, about Netflix, I have to explain … I was leery of ever [...]