I worked on this with some friends I met when I was billeted in Savannah, while I was stationed at Tybee Island, USCG station. The producers of this film short were students at Savannah College of Art and Design.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:54 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/304/gold-star-for-robot-boy.html I made this short for Ken Wyatt's Advanced Post Production Techniques class in the winter of 2011 with the help of my friends in Washington, North Carolina.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:54 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/303/detectives-story.html Chapter II is the continuation of a series that began with The Turnage Theater in Images: a Retrospect in Melody - Chapter I.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:53 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/302/the-turnage-theater-in-images-a-retrospect-in-melody-chapter-ii.html Director / Screenwriter J. J. Abrams's film, "Super 8," reminded me of "Close Encounters" meets "E.T." meets "Goonies," and even though this chemistry in celluloid sounds like one giant cliché, the film worked, and it worked quite well.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:53 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/301/super-8.html The renovated and recently revived Turnage Theater has fallen on some pretty hard times as of late, and is being forced to shutter its doors.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:52 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/300/the-turnage-theater-in-images-a-retrospect-in-melody-chapter-i.html Director Mark Pellington crafted a Glenn Porter screenplay, which employed four good actors, into a film that did not have to be made.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:52 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/299/i-melt-with-you.html "Forrest Gump" is one of the five best films ever made. It is the best of American art ... in scope, in tone, in message.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:51 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/298/forrest-gump.html Recently, I reviewed "The Beaver," which was a purely dark comedy regarding the debilitating effects of chronic depression, resulting in severe schizophrenia. "It's Kind of a Funny of Story," which dealt with institutionalized mental health patients, was much lighter fare.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:51 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/297/its-kind-of-a-funny-story.html This film, by Actress Jodie Foster who also directed, was produced during the time when Actor Gibson was having his last round of domestic skirmishes in his own home, and public opinion for the celebrated actor was at an all time low.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:50 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/296/the-beaver.html The Turnage Theater is sponsoring two community based events: one on its stage, one in Washington Park.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:50 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/295/the-turnage-theater-sponsors-two-community-based-events.html Many of you that see this film will not like, or even try to understand it. That is completely understandable, and you will be in the majority.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:49 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/294/melancholia.html Frank Vignola to play the Turnage Theater this Friday, November 8, 2011 at 8:00 pm.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:49 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/293/frank-vignola-to-play-the-turnage-theater.html On Wednesday Night, October 19, 2011, the Beaufort County Arts Council presented to their patrons and members an exclusive exhibit of the work of many artists, representing multiple mediums.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 1:48 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/292/beaufort-county-arts-council-presents-its-juried-work-for-the-47th-annual-fine-arts-show.html Actor / Director / Screen Writer George Clooney tries his hand at the inside game of politics with varying degrees of success.
( Published Monday, October 17th, 2011 @ 4:33 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/291/ides-of-march.html This year is sure to continue the tradition and fellowship of Eagle's Wings, Janet Cox and Le Moulin Rouge de Danse, and the entire community of Beaufort County.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:07 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/287/washingtons-4th-annual-dancing-with-our-stars.html Some members of the crowd at the Turnage Theater, February 11, 2011, were roiled by her irreverent humor, and others just laughed their fool heads off.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:07 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/286/maria-bamfords-irreverent-approach-to-comedy-was-unique-to-the-turnage-theater.html In just about 60 minutes at the Turnage Theater, Friday night, 3, 2010, we got a glimpse of who Charles Dickens was, and what possessed him to create his Christmas opus, "A Christmas Carol."
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:06 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/285/a-dickens-of-a-time.html Gloria Emmerich, co-owner of the Rocky Hock Playhouse in Washington, has reinvented the nativity story into a modern, musical melodrama, just in time for the Christmas season.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:06 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/284/christmas-a-night-of-glory-running-at-the-rocky-hock-playhouse.html After watching this afternoon's blowout performance of David (A Man after God's Own Heart), I can now report that there is nothing ad hoc about the Rocky Hock Playhouse in Washington.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:05 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/283/rocky-hock-presents-david-a-man-after-gods-own-heart.html Remarkably, John Brennan is also a regular guy, with a regular life, with a regular job, but also he possessed an irregular sense of propriety towards those that he loved, governed by an impressive and overwhelming sense of honor.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 @ 5:02 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/282/the-next-three-days.html I mostly love "Indie Films." As an film aficionado, I get to root for the underdog production and enjoy the tale told well in celluloid all at the same time.
( Published Monday, August 15th, 2011 @ 12:57 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/281/blue-valentine-a-love-story.html Director Darren Aronofsky employs the tragedy of full blown schizophrenia to allegorically expose the duality of raw emotional conflict within the hyper-creative process that is the backstage confluence of ballerinas and their bosses.
( Published Monday, August 15th, 2011 @ 12:50 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/280/black-swan.html The exposition of the hard edges of a bad time, in an otherwise thoughtful world, is the best of "Water for Elephants."
( Published Monday, August 15th, 2011 @ 12:46 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/279/water-for-elephants.html What if the Rapture is not to as it has been alluded to in Thessalonians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible?
( Published Monday, August 15th, 2011 @ 12:31 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/278/vanishing-on-7th-street.html Director Michel Gondry took a lame script by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg to build an unbelievable film, devoid of all emotion or the ability to elicit any palpable audience empathy.
( Published Monday, August 15th, 2011 @ 12:22 pm )]]> http://betterangelsnow.com/post/277/the-green-hornet.html