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Co-workers are like family you didn’t choose and have no control over. Yet you still have to deal with these people day after potentially soul-crushing day. Odds are that most folks in your office are okay to be around for eight hours at a time. If you’re lucky, a few may even be tolerable enough…
It’s the end of the decade, which means every film critic has to rush out their top movies of the 2010s list. Here at the Danny’s, we can’t let that opportunity go to waste. I’ve been awarding my personal movie awards since 2012. Going back over those, I sometimes found myself wondering what the hell…
The simple genius of the 48 Hour Film Project is that it forces you to make a movie. It’s easy to sit around and think to yourself, “Hey, I should get off my ass and make a film.” It’s much harder to find the time, energy, motivation, and moxie to do so. The 48 Hour…
Last month, I wrote about how Disney’s trend of releasing mainly sequels and ‘re-imaginings’ demonstrated Hollywood’s sad loss of creative risk. Proving that a picture really is worth a thousand words (or 1,165 of them to be exact), this meme has gone viral in the last couple weeks: Judging by the disappointing box office receipts…
When God was fiddling around in the Garden of Eden, making daises, roses, and other flowery things, the Devil was working on his own devious plant: Poison Ivy. Take a look at that innocent looking vine in the picture above. It’s so lush and leafy green. It could be a postcard for the wonders of…
Welcome to the first of what I plan to be an ongoing series of posts about marvelous movies. Marvelous is a play on the word ‘Marvel,’ which has taken on its own meaning at movie theaters these days. And I will commit classic film reviewer heresy by saying that some Marvel movies can be marvelous.…
Disney’s live-action ‘re-imagining’ of Aladdin opens this Friday. Audiences were not exactly clamoring for Will Smith to take the reins from the late Robin Williams to play the wacky genie who helps young Aladdin win the love of his life. But if the box office totals for Disney’s other ‘re-imaginings’ are any indication, the film…
