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    Sep 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures

    In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into Iran following the 1979 hostage crisis posing as a film producer scouting locations for a Canadian science-fiction film called "Argo." Under that cover story, Mendez engineered the rescue of six American hostages, themselves posing as part of the fake film crew.
    In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...

    Tags: Amour (movie), A Prophet (movie), Cloud Atlas (movie), Tom Tykwer, Ben Affleck

    2. Aug 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Coaxing film from a former steel plant

    "I used to spend summers with Uncle Nick as a kid," Pissios, a former real estate developer, tells me. He hung around the Cinespace Toronto soundstages. "That's how this whole thing happened. A few years ago, I was building condominiums by the United Center." Then came the mortgage and housing crises and the bad economic weather. Pissios went to Toronto for a wedding and saw his Uncle Nick. "And he said, 'How's things going?' I told him, 'Not so good. It's slow now.' And he said, 'We've always talked about opening up a studio in Chicago. Let's test the waters. Start lookin' around.'"
    "I used to spend summers with Uncle Nick as a kid," Pissios, a former real estate developer, tells me. He hung around the Cinespace Toronto soundstages. "That's how this whole thing happened. A few years ago, I was building condominiums by the United...

    Tags: Speed Racer (movie), Ryerson Incorporated, Chicago Fire (tv program), United Center, Boss (tv program)

    3. May 1, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  3. Sci-fi worthy of Malthus

    In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it.
    In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it. This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had...

    Tags: James Cameron, Science and Technology, Tom Cruise, Fiction, Environmental Issues

    4. Nov 9, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  4. A quirky recap of fall's top films—in verse!

    Thanksgiving was fast approaching, and the holiday blockbusters were about to start. But I still hadn't seen any of the big fall movies. How was I ever going to catch up?
    Thanksgiving was fast approaching, and the holiday blockbusters were about to start. But I still hadn't seen any of the big fall movies. How was I ever going to catch up? If I failed to make up the deficit, I wouldn't be able to outguess Roger Ebert in...

    Tags: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Music, Entertainment, Keira Knightley, Bruce Willis

    5. Aug 13, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  5. Patt Morrison Asks: The Possibilian, Kevin Kelly

    This is a Klein bottle, a kind of Mobius strip rendered in glass. The man holding it has a brain not unlike these confounding items, possessed of unusual twists and multidimensional turns that can be challenging for lesser mortals to get their own heads around. Kevin Kelly began reflecting on the techno-Internet world before most people even knew it existed. A co-founder of Wired magazine, and still its "senior maverick," his brainstorming writings influenced the films "Minority Report" and "The Matrix," but that's the stuff he has already done. It's the stuff Kelly still wants to do -- and to take the world along him -- that boots him up.
    This is a Klein bottle, a kind of Mobius strip rendered in glass. The man holding it has a brain not unlike these confounding items, possessed of unusual twists and multidimensional turns that can be challenging for lesser mortals to get their own heads...

    Tags: Biology, Entertainment, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Arts, Computer Networking and Internet

    6. Aug 27, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  6. Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin

    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." But the Sun Valley Writers' Conference bears an annual crop of words and ideas, and Merwin is here as a master gardener of that. He just ended a year's term as the nation's poet laureate. He <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/">has to his name two Pulitzer Prizes and more than 30 books of poetry and prose</a>, and a hand-planted forest at home of rare and endangered palms. <a href="http://www.merwinconservancy.org/">The Merwin Conservancy</a> is dedicated to keeping his works green -- the ones he created with words, and the natural ones that exist before and beyond them.
    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...

    Tags: Biology, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Arts, Radio, Television

    7. Mar 8, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  7. International Women’s Day: Superheroines with some kick

    Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times
    International Women's Day is being honored today with that singular cultural touchstone: a Google Doodle. The doodle drawing of faces ......
    8. Jan 2, 2013 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'Cloud Atlas'

    Since they're ambitious directors within their own spheres, the Wachowskis ("The Matrix") and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") only could yield a massively ambitious project by teaming up. This film certainly is that, and even if the lengthy result - based...

    Tags: Tom Tykwer, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry

    9. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. A mermaid, a fashion film, a bath bomb and 'The Great Gatsby' [Updated 4:37 p.m. May 10]

    Members of L.A.&rsquo;s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann&rsquo;s "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-composer Ysanne Spevack&rsquo;s ambitious music-fashion-film-beauty concept, the Coldwater Project.
    Members of L.A.’s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Vivienne Westwood, Arts, Music Industry

    10. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Review: Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' a sci-fi adventure to remember

    "Oblivion" will make you remember, not forget.
    "Oblivion" will make you remember, not forget. This Tom Cruise vehicle is a throwback to the days when on-screen science fiction was about speculative ideas rather than selling toys to tots — think of it as the most expensive episode of "The...

    Tags: Entertainment, Life of Pi (movie), Tron Legacy (movie) , New York Public Library, Tom Cruise

    11. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Netflix goes sci-fi with the Wachowskis

    Netflix is going big with its next original series. After tapping the talents of David Fincher and Eli Roth for previous productions, the online outfit is getting Andy and Lana Wachowski, creators of "The Matrix" series, who will work with J. Michael <span id="articleText">Straczynski, best known as creator of the groundbreaking science fiction series "Babylon 5."</span>
    Netflix is going big with its next original series. After tapping the talents of David Fincher and Eli Roth for previous productions, the online outfit is getting Andy and Lana Wachowski, creators of "The Matrix" series, who will work with J. Michael...

    Tags: Channing Tatum, Lana Wachowski, Arrested Development (tv program) , Fiction, David Fincher

    12. Feb 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Biblioracle: Bring 'Geek Love' to the big screen

    In general, I like to keep my books and my movies separate. When I finish a book and clutch it to my breast in a final loving embrace, I am not fantasizing about how the characters and conflict will play out on screen, since I've already had it play out across the inside of my skull.
    In general, I like to keep my books and my movies separate. When I finish a book and clutch it to my breast in a final loving embrace, I am not fantasizing about how the characters and conflict will play out on screen, since I've already had it play out...

    Tags: Authors, Cloud Atlas (movie), Tim Burton, Flight (movie), Lawless (movie)

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