by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 9, 2013 | TV & Movies
I wrestled over this decision for a long time but I finally did go see Ender’s Game. Let me preface this by saying that I disagree with Orson Scott Card on every stance he has taken regarding the rights of the LGBT community. I find his musings about “urban gangs” to be not so very veiled racism, and it saddens me to see a man who has a platform using it to be so divisive and hateful. Therefore I have not provided a link to Card’s website as I have with other folks...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 18, 2013 | TV & Movies
I loved this movie. It doesn’t hurt that it was directed by one of my favorite directors Alfonso Cuarón, and had two very appealing actors and it was about space. Which made it even more awesome. I know Neil DeGrasse Tyson had a fit about the movie because you can’t see the ISS from the Hubble, etc. etc. I don’t care. This wasn’t a NASA documentary. It wasn’t a space disaster movie a la that terrible mess ARMAGEDDON. It was a movie about rebirth and the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 13, 2013 | TV & Movies
I watched an episode of PERSON OF INTEREST last night that I had recorded on my DVR, and I got a decided sinking sensation. As many folks know I have been a huge proponent of this television series. Frankly, I thought it was the best show on television. As I worked my way through the first season and compared it with the second season I was deeply impressed by the plotting of the arcs. How tension was developed and sustained. Mysteries deepened. But now that we are into the third season...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 20, 2013 | TV & Movies
Okay, I said I would try to organize my thoughts, and explain why I found Forbidden Planet to be less then thrilling when I saw it again at the grand opening of George R.R.’s wonderful, refurbished Jean Cocteau. Let me start by saying that I don’t think the nineteen-fifties overall were a golden age for film. In some ways it felt like a lot of the movies — Doris Day, Rock Hudson, I’m looking at you — were designed to convince women that they really didn’t want to be Rosie the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2013 | TV & Movies
While recovering from food poisoning, and with a completely whacked out sleep cycle I ended up watching all the banked episodes of the TNT show FALLING SKIES. I’ve liked this show from the beginning. Yeah, it’s another alien invasion story, but it looked great, I thought Noah Wyle was good as the history professor father, and I really liked his three sons. Every time you thought you knew what the aliens wanted something would surprise you. “A ragtag band of humans fight...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 26, 2013 | TV & Movies
After Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness I went into this movie with very low expectations. Which meant I enjoyed Man of Steel more then I expected. Henry Cavill was superb as Clark/Kal-El. The didn’t try to find a clone of Chris Reeves, but he looked very much like Superman from the comics. Amy Adams was an inspired choice as Lois Lane. She is so appealing and David Goyer did a good job of updating that character to make her a modern woman I was rather dreading this film because it...
