Comments on: PREVIEWS OF COMING ATTRACTIONS

By: Will Pfeifer

Will Pfeifer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:23:41 +0000

Teri, I think that movie is just starting to open in theaters. (I actually had to look it up before I remembered it’s Woody Allen’s latest.) The review just ran this week in Entertainment Weekly, which usually means its opening in New York and L.A. According to the Internet Movie Database, it’s opened at film festivals all over the world but is just coming to the States. My guess is it will be in Rockford in a few weeks, now that the last of the Oscar nominees are arriving here. We almost always get Woody Allen’s movies.

By: Teri

Teri — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:03:07 +0000

I was wondering if you had any insght into why Cassandra’s Dream is not playing at any of the theaters in town or if it was opening at a later time?

By: Will Pfeifer

Will Pfeifer — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:18:15 +0000

At every other site on the entire Internet, Kevin! Thanks for asking!

By: Kevin Haas

Kevin Haas — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:28:59 +0000

Where do we post our comments on whether or not we like Amazon Attacks

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:26:23 +0000

Hey Will go to Barrington AMC 30 to see There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day Lewis is extraordinary and raises the film to another level. I’ve seen all five of the best picture nominees, and There Will Be Blood is the best. Also glad to see Viggo finally get a nomination he deserved it for Eastern Promises, wish the film would have gotten more nominations as well, especially for Cronenberg.

By: John N

John N — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:19:08 +0000

Bob asks some good questions. My take on why he didn’t duplicate, say, gold bars is that he wasn’t obsessed with money. He had money and it brought no happiness. His obsession was the secret to the trick. As the movie noted, when one is obsessed with something, it consumes him.

Congratulations, Will, on your new blog.

By: Bob Schaper

Bob Schaper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:17:26 +0000

Movie Man, I’m glad you’ve entered the blogosphere, and I look forward to reading your insightful comments. I will also look to you for movie information and the answer to certain questions I may have from time to time.

For example, this weekend I watched “The Prestige.” While I generally enjoyed the movie, I was puzzled by the machine that apparently was able to duplicate matter. I thought matter could neither be created or destroyed, but the scientist made matter like crazy.

Furthermore, if one COULD duplicate matter (which one can’t), wouldn’t he choose to duplicate something like gold bars? Why would he create - and then kill - duplicates of himself?

Also, is it plausible that Christian Bales’ long-suffering wife would not know that she was sleeping with twin brothers? And why didn’t the brothers bother to communicate what knot one of them tied on the doomed stage assistant, who subsequently drowned. I get that one of the brothers honestly didn’t know (because his brother tied the knot, not him), but don’t they ever SPEAK?

I look forward to your answers.