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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Review: Patriot Games
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Apr 5, 2014
Captain America was my first favorite comic book superhero. He wasn’t the first superhero I remember liking; that was Spider-Man from reruns of the late-1960s animated series. Nor was he the superhero I was most exposed to; that was probably a tie between Superman, from reruns of the old read more
OPINION: Spoiled Rotten
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Apr 2, 2014
On March 31, Matt Singer, News Editor of The Dissolve, wrote an op-ed titled, “Do We Really Need All These Set Photos?” The piece nicely covers the incessant publication of leaked (or “leaked”) behind-the-scenes photos from the sets of most major blockbusters, citing how read more
DIVERGENT Review: Hey Girl. Are You Wearing Dystopia? That’s Hot.
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Mar 21, 2014
Every filmmaker faces a considerable hurdle when making a film set in a dystopian future. The easy part is creating a world that is bleak and hopeless and undesirable and completely depressing. The hard part is then populating this dreadful world with beautiful people. And you have to populate read more
RIDE ALONG Review: A Bumpy Ride
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Mar 16, 2014
I recently reviewed the action film 2 Guns for DVD Verdict. My open is a brief history of the biracial nature of the buddy picture. I cite several films from the 1970s through today, many of which are cop movies. I thought about this after watching this film, but of course there is nothing biraci read more
MITT Review: Watching Home Movies
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Mar 14, 2014
In the mid 2000s, I used to blog about politics and social issues until managing the venom with which people would respond – down party lines and on both sides of the aisle, I might add – became more of an effort than the writing was worth. I wanted discourse. I got discord. I still fol read more
LONE SURVIVOR Review: Wheat From Chaff
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jan 17, 2014
I do not hail from a traditional “military family,” but my family has proudly served its country in the military. Across several generations, on both maternal and paternal sides, and by blood and marriage, I have relatives who served in all four branches of the United States Armed Forc read more
HER Review: Love Bytes
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jan 11, 2014
Virtual relationships are not unlike traditional relationships. I’ve been on Twitter since April 2011. During my near-three years and 11,000+ tweets on the social networking site, I’ve enjoyed friendships of varying depths, just as if I had met the same folks at school or at work or in read more
AMERICAN HUSTLE Review: Hustle and Slow
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 26, 2013
When VHS took off in the 1980s and the local mom-and-pop video rental store opened our account (read: gave us our own index card to track our rentals), I consumed catalogue titles at a blistering pace. Many I had never seen but had only heard/read about. Others made annual-ish airings on network read more
SAVING MR. BANKS Review: A Father-Daughter Dance
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 23, 2013
When I first began writing, it was in the area of fiction. For years, no matter what the format (numerous short stories, several screenplays, and even a novel), I wrote in a vacuum; no one read my stuff but me. I was mostly fearful of being judged. When I created something artistic (in the most read more
FROZEN Review: A Deep Freeze
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 18, 2013
It’s easy to grow jaded when it comes to animation. When you have kids and over the years they clamor to see every cartoon that hits the screens and you do everything you can to get them there because that’s your move, you eventually grow tired of it all – the form, the bad jokes, read more
NEBRASKA Review: Everybody Wants Some
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 12, 2013
In the time I spent in the car to get to and from my screening of director Alexander Payne‘s wonderful new film, Nebraska, I could have taken a plane to actual Nebraska and seen the movie there. The one-hour ride to the theater was fine, but an unexpected snowstorm turned the one-hour return read more
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Review: Dire Straight
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 1, 2013
As a member of the Classic Film Community, I often wonder what springs to people’s minds when a celebrity’s name is mentioned. For example, mention Marilyn Monroe, and you are likely to get responses ranging from “bombshell” to Some Like It Hot to President John F. Kennedy. read more
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Review: The Space Between
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Nov 4, 2013
Think about your first love. Think about who you were and what you were as an individual when you first met that first love. Think about who you were and what you were as an individual – and as a couple – when that first love ended. Think about everything – everything you can read more
ALL IS LOST Review: The Old Man and the Sea
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 27, 2013
My favorite TV show from the 1980s is MacGyver. It starred Richard Dean Anderson as something of a government operative who uses intellect – and whatever resources are handy – to get his way into and out of sticky situations. Part spy and part Boy Scout, MacGyver, at his core, is a read more
ABOUT TIME Review: Too Much Is Never Enough
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 24, 2013
Whether classics like 1960′s The Time Machine, recent hits like 2012′s Looper, or even the mushy treacle in between, like 1980′s Somewhere in Time, I have always loved movies about time travel. My first recollection of being enamored by this notion was when I was in the 8th grade read more
CBGB Review: This Ain’t No Party; This Ain’t No Disco
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 19, 2013
After movies, music is the next important artistic thing in my life. (I don’t play, mind you; I merely listen.) So when movies and music combine, I’m usually all-in. I have no preference in terms of film genre, music genre, or film era. I enjoy biopics like 1954′s The Glenn Mil read more
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Review: Survival of the Fittest
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 12, 2013
It’s hard to believe that my first introduction to Tom Hanks – the first introduction to Hanks for many people, really – was when he played a cross-dresser. Twenty-one years before producing 2001′s Band of Brothers; fifteen years before voicing Woody in the first Toy Story read more
GRAVITY Review: It’s Not Flying, It’s Falling With Style
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 4, 2013
Prior to seeing this year’s Iron Man 3 in IMAX 3D, my last experience with an IMAX screen was sometime around the 8th grade (that would be the early 1980s for those of you wondering) at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Back then, movies that played on IMAX screens weren’t major read more
2013 tcm SUTS blogathon: Fade to Black
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Sep 8, 2013
Once again I find myself wondering where the time went. To paraphrase Anthony Hopkins in 1998′s Meet Joe Black: “Thirty-one days. Don’t they go by in a blink?” Of course, an event is not an event without the people who participate in it, and I cannot thank them enough for read more
BLUE JASMINE Review: Separate Lives
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Aug 29, 2013
In January 2012, I had the privilege of participating in an award-winning blogging event that deconstructed every aspect of Alfred Hitchcock‘s masterpiece, Vertigo (1958). My contribution to the event, hosted by The Lady Eve of The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, was an in-depth analysis of the read more