Corey is a long time movie lover with a critical eye. He has taught religion and literature at several colleges in the Memphis area for the last several years. Corey loves all things literary and philosophical and is most interested in the presentation of certain themes in films, focusing specifically on the relationship between form and meaning.

Consider this an avid movie viewer’s “State of the Union.”  Or, perhaps a “blogesque” like version of A Man Apart or Falling Down.  While the nation debates weightier issues such as nationalized health care and the ongoing fiscal crisis, let me take a moment to address a lesser problem of importance, but equal in scope, [...]

Uma Thurman has come a long way since her cocaine snorting dancing with Travolta Pulp Fiction days.  Her next role?  A Nun.  Thurman is set to star in Girl Soldiers, a film about the 1996 Aboke abductions in Uganda, which saw 139 school girls stolen into the world of children militia and sex slavery.  Based partly [...]

A few months ago, I wrote a review for an Independent project entitled …Around, by NYC director/producer David Spaltro.  After much toil and trouble, …Around has finally made it to DVD and is available through Amazon (or available to be downloaded on Amazon On-Demand), ITunes, Netflix, and several other outlets.
Here is a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Around/dp/B002FQ8NEM/ref=cm_rna_own_review_prod
I think …Around [...]

The Big Valley, a TV western that ran from 1964-69, is being developed for the big screen, Variety news reports.  The original show starred Barbara Stanwyck, who played a 19th century, widowed Californian matriarch of the Barkley family, along with Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, and Richard Long.
Kate Edelman Johnson and Daniel Adams are producing, [...]

This is an exciting story for me.  Yahoo news posted a brief story about early praise for the latest Potter movie’s depiction of good vs. evil and other moral issues.  And from where did the praise come?  The Vatican!  The Vatican’s newpaper L’Osservatore Romano gave Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince two thumbs up for its [...]

For this installment of Prof’s Picks, I have ran across a little gem for all Ringers out there.  I was perusing YouTube and found The Hunt for Gollum, an independently made short film about Strider’s attempt to locate and capture Gollum.
This indy project is very well done, and though you can see the influence of [...]

Hitman 2, the follow up to the 2007 Hitman, has landed a writer.  IESB reports that Fox has hired Kyle Ward to write the script for the video game based sequel. 
As a writer, Kyle Ward has Kane and Lynch starring Bruce Willis (to begin shooting later this year) and Michael Bay’s Fiasco Heights. 
I’m a big [...]

Many of The Lord of the Rings movie sets are being reconstructed for the upcoming prequel, The Hobbit.  Red Carpet tours is again advertising their tours of Middle-Earth, i.e. New Zealand, after a bit of a hiatus since The Return of the King.
This means a couple of things:  one, that there is a renewed demand [...]

David Carradine, famous for his role as the traveling warrior in the TV show “Kung Fu” and his work in the “Kill Bill” franchise, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room Thursday morning.  Carradine was in Bangkok filming a movie called “Stretch.”  While the cause of death is under investigation, the initial police report [...]

Prof’s Pick

Patton

I’m going to recommend, insist even on, one of the greatest biographical/war/American films made, the 1970 classic, Patton. Patton, the story of great US Army General George S. Patton’s victories and controversies, has rightly been considered as a masterpiece, a vivid, outstanding depiction of an immensely important historical figure.

Let [...]