Author: Jeffrey Alan Schechter

Overall Impression – Not the Second Coming, but it’ll do for now. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Jake Sulley. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Integrate into the Na’vi people to help them. Personal: Find his place in the world now  that he’s lost use of his legs.  Private: Unclear.  Possibly… Continue reading AVATAR

Overall Impression – A movie that generates small smiles instead of big laughs — which I can only assume was not the intent of the filmmakers. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Jane (Meryl Streep.) What’s she trying to accomplish? – Professional: Decide if she should give her ex-husband another chance. Personal: Find… Continue reading IT’S COMPLICATED

Overall Impression – A movie as slight as a one-hit wonder, but just as endearing. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – ‘Young’ Carl. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Get his life together (at the insistence of his mother) by living on a pirate radio ship with a rowdy bunch of DJ’s.Personal:… Continue reading PIRATE RADIO

Overall Impression – Ignore those logic questions scratching at the back of your brain.  The movie’s kinda fun! THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Nick Rice. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: put an end to Clyde’s vendetta against the broken justice system. Personal: fix his relationship with his family.  Private: learn… Continue reading LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

Overall Impression – A technically wonderful movie, but sadly it loses steam rather quickly. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Max. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: rule the Wild Things and keep ‘sadness’ away.  Personal: forge a friendship with Carol. Private: learn the importance of family. Who’s trying to stop him?… Continue reading WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE