—————————————————————————————————————————————————DISCLAIMER:—————————————————————————————————————————— I’m writing this blog for the stated reason that I don’t want to write about my birthday (September 18). I turned 40. The highlight of my day was that I began the (hopefully short) process of finding a literary agent. Other things that happened on my birthday: my Xbox 360, DVD player and fridge [...]
September 26, 2009
Categories: Film Reviews/Criticism, R A N T S, SCI-FI . Tags: confessional blogs, Films set in South, first time director, indie filmmaking, movie making, obsessions, sci fi spoofs, science fiction movies, scifi . Author: Gregory Purvis . Comments: Leave a Comment
It feels like this summer is turning out to be the Summer of Movies. First off, I’ve been working on two movies of my own: the first is THE LOST IDOL OF AMUN-RA, a take-off on 1950’s sci-fi serials. I’m directing and acting in this one (well, I agreed to play a bit part: the powerful [...]
September 9, 2009
Categories: Film Reviews/Criticism . . Author: Gregory Purvis . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’m obviously just not kool enough to watch the MTV Movie Awards. At least, not when its live. Bad things happen…take for instance the last time I watched it live, when I was treated to the disintegration of one of the finest bands my generation ever produced: Rage Against The Machine. Err…well maybe that actually occurred [...]
June 3, 2009
Categories: Film Reviews/Criticism . Tags: Bad Horror Movies, Hate Twilight, Hate WalMart, I Hate MTV, Movie Awards Twilight, Movies That Suck, MTV, MTV Get Off The Air, MTV Movie Awards, R A N T S, Twilight, Vampires, Vampires Suck . Author: Gregory Purvis . Comments: Leave a Comment
I Want To Believe…The X-Files Movie Won’t Suck
Or: I’d rather be force-fed a greasy Spam-type meat product rather than hear anything about U.F.O.’s or ‘Grays” or Area 51.
By Gregory Purvis
When I was young, science fiction and mysteries of the unexplained used to be all good. There just wasn’t any such thing as a bad sci-fi [...]
December 6, 2008
Categories: Film Reviews/Criticism . . Author: Gregory Purvis . Comments: Leave a Comment
Modern cinema is held hostage in a prison of 1’s and 0’s: a Wonderland of digital dimensions.
Locked in this gilded cage, fantasy in infinite variety can woo the ooh-and-ahh, promising (if not always delivering) a matinee that was once upon a time–and not so long ago–showing only in dreams.
Lord of the Rings was penned [...]
October 25, 2008
Categories: Film Reviews/Criticism . Tags: Fargo, Film Reviews/Criticism, Kate Beckinsale, Movies/Drama, Relationship Movies, Snow Is Sad, This Movie Is Somebody's Life . Author: Gregory Purvis . Comments: Leave a Comment