Tag Archives: Jude Law

Rise of the Guardians

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Morgan R. Lewis

A Golden Globe Best Animated Feature nominee in 2012, a reasonably tough year, Rise of the Guardians may not have taken home the award, but it had met with success at the box office. I’d marked it down as one … Continue reading →

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News Bites: Rebooting Reptiles

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

Once again, Friday morning brings with it a week’s worth of news out of Hollywood. And once again, a lot of it involves remakes and reboots: this time with appropriately metaphorical animals, including dragons, snakes, and phoenixes. There’s even a … Continue reading →

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Gattaca

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Morgan R. Lewis

The letters in the title Gattaca are all the symbols used to denote different bases in DNA. And if that’s the first thing your brain noticed, then you’re wired in a very peculiar way. But it is, of course, apt … Continue reading →

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

Heath Ledger may well be this generation’s James Dean. His career tragically cut short (though in his case more by a bad decision than by happenstance), he had a few more films than Dean, but like Dean was just reaching … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Morgan R. Lewis

Sherlock Holmes is one of those characters that is immediately recognizable to anybody. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1800s, he is as much a part of the common culture as Robin Hood and King Arthur, and … Continue reading →

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