No one would argue that M. Night Shyamalan, the director of The Sixth Sense, stole the idea for his film from the Dean Koontz’s novel Odd Thomas. The film came years before the novel. If anyone unconsciously copied it was Koontz, right? Well, knowing Shyamalan’s penchant for copying, I’d side with Koontz. Shyamalan must have…
Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin did a snappy banter bit at this year’s Oscars before they presented the lifetime achievement award to director Robert Altman. The whole performance was an homage to Altman and his films. Fast, seemingly improvised dialogue is his trademark. Well, that and having large, talented ensemble casts. The ony other Altman…
Despite getting mixed reviews, The Da Vinci Code made a boatload of money when it hit theaters, with a large portion of the ticket sales coming from overseas, suggesting that the novel by Dan Brown was as big a hit, if not bigger, outside the US as it was within. That’s amazing to me, especially…
I tried reading this book awhile ago, but I couldn’t get past the first half, in which King recounts his rise to super stardom. It’s not that I found King vain, which is the fault of many writers’ memoirs (see Nicholas Spark’s Three Weeks with My Brother, or the more appropriate title Why I’m Such…
George Clooney is a pretty classy guy, the Cary Grant of our generation, if you ignore the fact that he’s an outspoken liberal quick to take a jab at the current administration. As an actor, he’s top notch; I thought he was hilarious in O Brother Where Art Thou, and as a director, he’s just…
I don’t like horror. Ghosts and ghouls have never been my thing. I don’t read horror books and I don’t see horror movies. I probably couldn’t even eat a horror cookie if there was such a thing. And believe me, I like cookies. I think it’s all because I’m a fraidy cat by nature, prone…
