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 – 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 – An impressive film, can’t get enough of it. One of the best movies of the famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ever made… in my opinion. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? — Salieri What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Prove that he’s a superior musician to Mozart.  Personal: Destroy Mozart’s […]

Overall Impression — Words fail me.  This is one of the most relentlessly brilliant explorations of the soul of a hero I’ve ever seen. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? — Bruce Wayne as the Batman. What’s he trying to accomplish? — Professional: Stop the Joker. Personal: Get Rachel to love him. Private: Discover […]

  Overall Impression — A well-crafted movie that tries to do everything right and succeeds from a structural viewpoint, but is ultimately undone by some unclear character motivations. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s the main character? — Christian Bale’s Dan Evans. What’s he trying to accomplish? — Save the family ranch by getting the outlaw Ben Wade (Russell […]