Jeffrey Alan Schechter

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 – 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 – Bewildering!  Frustrating!  Then I gave up trying to figure out why everything was happening and actually started enjoying it. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Ben. What’s he trying to accomplish? – The movie gets its drive by withholding an answer to this question. Why is Ben doing all these crazy good deeds?  WHY!?  Until all is revealed […]

Overall Impression — A solid piece of work, a lot of fun, but one which requires a willingness to overlook some underlying logic holes. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? — Bolt. What’s he trying to accomplish? — Professional: Get back to Hollywood.  Personal: Rescue Penny.  Private: Accept that he’s not a dog with super […]