I have watched Castle in the Sky (1986; aka Laputa: Castle in the Sky) twice now and have had the same reaction both times. During roughly the first half of the movie I felt fairly uninvolved and found myself thinking “Well, there are some nice moments, but overall this is kind of cutesy and tedious.” …
What Makes a Movie Work?
As I begin, I should explain a bit more about the kind of movie blog this will be. While the tag line may refer to “all matters cinematic,” I acknowledge some cinema-related matters are more interesting to me than others. Broadly speaking, this is a blog for movie reviews, including retrospectives on older movies as …
The Cameraman blog begins!
The movies are a life-long love of mine and one of the few topics I can talk about incessantly, so I figured I ought to channel this obsession into a more structured form. This blog will feature my movie-related thoughts: reviews, general reflections, and any other comments I feel compelled to inflict on the internet. …
The Cameraman 