Category: Movies
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Nashville Film Fest a fun, great learning experience
By G. Robert Frazier The Nashville Film Festival concluded its most recent run Saturday after 10 days of movies, informational panels about the film industry, and parties celebrating the creative minds behind the films and scripts entered in the event. As a script reader for the screenwriting competition, I earned…
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REVIEW: Latest Star Wars movie excites, but aggravates too
NOTE TO READERS: If you have been living under a rock and haven’t seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet, don’t read any farther! by G. Robert Frazier Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally played itself out to hordes of fans and left many giddy with excitement and others…
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Around the Web: Bond, Star Trek franchises endure with new movies, books, series
by G. Robert Frazier Every day I scour the web for interesting articles about writing, reading, and other fascinating stories. I occasionally share those in this space, just because I’m such a cool guy. Today’s roundup consists of two movie franchises with huge fan bases, and no, I’m not talking…
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Horror world loses iconic director Wes Craven
Wes Craven, 1939-2015 Wes Craven, the man who gave us Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and The Hills Have Eyes has died. He was 76. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng…
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Review: Ant-Man’s silly fun works for fan boys, kids only
I’m apparently not the comic book fan boy geek I used to be. Otherwise, I should have loved Ant-Man, the latest Marvel super-hero opus gracing your local Cineplex. But, for all of its efforts, I was bored, annoyed, and just plain uninspired by the film. Oddly, it’s getting pretty decent…
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G. Robert Frazier’s Best of List
With the Grammys behind us and the Oscars ahead, I thought I’d present my own Best of… roundup as well. Consider this, though, more of a people’s choice awards list. I haven’t seen all the Oscar contenders so I can’t rate the high-brow emotional stuff, and I’m not into pop…
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Writers: You don’t have to do this … but you probably should
It’s a simple enough line of dialogue: “You don’t have to do this.” But it’s also one of the most common and, perhaps, overused lines of dialogue in today’s movies and TV shows as well. Listen for it, and you will hear it uttered more often than not. The line…
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NaFF: The Identical superbly written, acted, directed
Made it to the Nashville Film Fest (NaFF) today. Saw Something, Anything and The Identical. The first story focuses on a young woman who loses her first child in birth and suffers a long bout of depression afterwards that basically ends her marriage and former friendships. She seeks out an…
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