Jeffrey Alan Schechter

Overall Impression – A classic I wish I’d seen sooner. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Ted Kramer. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: balance being a single parent with his treasured career.  Personal: develop a genuine father/son relationship.  Private: realize what his priorities in life are. Who’s trying to stop him? […]

Overall Impression – Unmemorable fun with a smattering of man love, a dash of anti-Semitism, and a mean hook. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Sherlock Holmes. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Stop Lord Blackwood. Personal: Cope with the impending marriage of Watson. Private: Learn that emotion and feeling is just […]

Overall Impression – As smart and distant a movie as it’s main character. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Ryan Bingham. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Keep his job, which involves helping people lose theirs. Personal: Maintain a relationship interruptus with a fellow traveller he meets hit and miss on the […]

Overall Impression – Whether you’re a fan of Tarantino or not, if you love the language of movies you must, Must, MUST see this movie. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – There are really TWO stories at work here, however the main character is Shoshanna Dreyfus . What’s she trying to accomplish? – Professional: […]

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 […]