by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 29, 2013 | About Writing, TV & Movies
SMASH the NBC show about the trials and tribulations of bringing a show to Broadway was, alas, cancelled at the end of their second season. I really loved the show, but then I’m a singer and have performed in a lot of broadway shows with the New Mexico Civic Light Opera. I fell in love with the dreadful, womanizing director played by Jack Davenport, it was a great nuanced performance. The two young women had amazing voices, and I enjoyed and bought a lot of the music from BOMBSHELL....
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 23, 2013 | TV & Movies
Star Trek. Well, where to start. *********************************************************Here Be Spoilers*********************************Spoilers********************************************************** It had a really terrific cast. Chris Pine has definitely grown into the role of Kirk. Quinto is amazing as Spock. Benedict Cumberbatch has become one of my favorite actors working. Unlike many I like the Spock/Uhura pairing. There’s something enough off kilter about it that just works for...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 11, 2013 | TV & Movies
I’ve been chatting with someone over on Facebook about Skyfall as compared with Iron Man 3. There was criticism over the fact the first half of the movie is about chasing after a hard drive, and that’s when it struck me. The hard drive is just a McGuffin, not just for the movie, but for the villain as well. The hard drive is the bait to get people to come after him and incarcerate him in London so he can go after his real target — M. That is classic Second Stage Rocket....
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 9, 2013 | TV & Movies
THERE WILL BE SPOILERS *************************************************************************************************************************YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I went to Iron Man 3 with great anticipation and equally high hopes. All the pre-release buzz had presented this movie as better then even the first movie. Which was high praise indeed. The first Iron Man movie ranks for me as one of the top five superhero movies that have been made thus far. We expected a...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 5, 2013 | TV & Movies
I’m watching a show implode which is making me sad because I had enjoyed SMASH, but it is also offering some interesting lessons in What Not To Do. Smash is a television series about taking a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe to Broadway. I was a singer, I performed with the Civic Light Opera, I love Broadway and try to see a couple of shows every time I go to New York. The show was created and run by a woman who has, in fact, taken shows to Broadway so it was a look behind...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Mar 1, 2013 | TV & Movies
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Daniel Craig fan. I think he’s a terrific actor and oh so easy on the eyes. I had never seen the role which apparently helped him land the mantle of James Bond, that of a middle man drug dealer in LAYER CAKE. I watched it last night, and it was great. Really innovative direction, and a script where things just kept getting worse and worse but usually because of human idiocy or frailty, greed and viciousness. It struck me again how much I...
