Jeffrey Alan Schechter

Overall Impression – Despite the evidence, Eastwood never gets old. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Walt Kowalski. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: save his Hmong neighbors from the local gang.  Personal: teach Thao to be a man.  Private: find a reason to keep living after his wife’s death. Who’s trying […]

Overall Impression – A mostly solid tale about personal sacrifice… if you can forgive Germans speaking in American and English accents. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Claus von Stauffenberg. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: assassinate the Nazi power players and stage a government coup.  Personal: free Germany from its real […]

Overall Impression – It’s THE 39 CLUES for adults that is so winningly cast and so slickly produced that you barely realize that nothing’s at stake. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Ben Gates. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Find the City of Gold. Personal: Prove that his great-great-grand father was […]

Overall Impression – I don’t care what anyone thinks… I enjoyed it! Solid Spielbergian fun. ‘Nuff said. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? Jerry Shaw What’s he trying to accomplish? Professional: Stop ARIA, the AI defense mainframe. Personal: win over Rachel. Private: Find out why his twin brother was killed and prove to himself […]

Overall Impression – (Thrilling action) + (brutal violence) x (visionary director) = (visually exciting movie that depressed the hell out of me.) THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Wesley. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: learn how to be an assassin.  Personal: Kill the man who killed his father. Private: discover who he […]