Paul M. Jones | Movies 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Cafe Coca and Snake Eyes 2015-02-14T22:14:23-06:00 Cafe Coca from De-Phazz (YouTube) samples some movie lines at about the 2:00 mark: And in the end we'll meet in one of the seven circles. And I'll be there for not doing what I could to help you. And you'll be there for doing what you could to stop ... The Movie "Alien" (1979) Presaged By "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (!958) 2014-09-28T15:32:43-05:00 If you are a fan of "Alien" you really should watch "It! The Terror From Beyond Space". The plot elements are remarkably similar.... The Best Review Of "Let Me In" That I've Seen 2013-03-25T21:53:56-05:00 Recently, my parents found an old dog that had been abandoned.  He stunk.  We needed to bathe him, and he wasn't keen on the idea.  It might seem mean to hold him down and spray him with a hose and soap with all his whining and complaining a... Kubrick's comments regarding 'A Clockwork Orange' 2013-01-13T23:20:15-06:00 The violence in the story has to be given sufficient dramatic weight so that the moral dilemma it poses can be seen in the right context. It is absolutely essential that Alex is seen to be guilty of a terrible violence against society, so that when h... Star Wars is dead 2012-10-31T12:51:27-05:00 Disney used to be a wonderful organization itself.  Now it is the evil vampire squid of the entertainment world, mindlessly devouring and excreting out the stinking remnants of one entertainment franchise after another.  It was never going to h... The Real Hero of "The Princess Bride" Is Inigo, Not Westley 2011-12-19T18:27:28-06:00 Almost everyone who knows me has had to suffer through me talking about Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. The short version: all hero stories share common elements, character types, and motifs; these elements are present in mythology, re... The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction 2011-05-01T22:31:32-05:00 For the Empire to actually exist as an institution, it needs to have the mechanisms in place to exist – namely, donks like Queen Amidala and Senator Jar Jar Binks who basically just sit around and handle boring government work. And you also need... Pixar's "Up" 2010-06-30T20:47:11-05:00 I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, and I found it a very powerful experience; let's say my allergies acted up through the whole thing. On my rating scale, I give it the highest marks: "see it twice at full price". I just watched it ag... Avatar and America 2010-01-02T09:18:44-06:00 But the more blatant lesson of Avatar is not that American imperialism is bad, but that in fact it’s necessary. Sure there are some bad Americans--the ones with tanks ready to mercilessly kill the Na’vi population, but Jake is set up as the... James Lileks "Star Trek" Review 2009-05-12T07:23:17-05:00 Kirk: I think I have the least to say about him, because he made the most of the opportunity to remold the character without changing it. If he didn’t seem Kirk-like to some, it’s a reminder of how much Shatner’s performance hinged - ...