by Ted McLoof | Jan 13, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Ted McLoof
The opening shot of Her is an XCU of Theodore Twombly’s (Joaquin Phoenix) face. And I do mean his face: the background is blurry, his hair and ears are out of focus. The only clear image you have is of his eyes (piercing), his nerdy little mustache, and his skin,...
by Ted McLoof | Jan 10, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
Film is a visual medium. This sounds like more or less the most obvious statement ever, and yet, embarrassingly, I have to consistently remind myself of it when I watch movies. As a fiction writer, I usually pay much closer attention to the characters, the dialogue,...
by Ted McLoof | Jan 7, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Ted McLoof
According to the writer William H. Gass (in his great On Being Blue), blue is not only the warmest color, but the color that enlivens pretty much any kind of emotional state. “Blue is most suitable as the color of interior life,” he writes. “Whether slick light sharp...
by Ted McLoof | Jan 3, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
The line of dialogue that starts and ends Inside Llewyn Davis is this: “If it was never new and it never gets old, it’s a folk song.” Llewyn Davis lives a life kind of like that. He’s drunk a lot, and he ignores things people tell him, so he’s consistently surprised...
by rookerville.com | Dec 31, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Featured, Nichole Louise, Pat Wong, Politics, Pop Culture, Russ Stevens, Social, Ted McLoof
First off welcome to the Penguin Awards. This is Rookerville’s attempt to wrap up the year. The one guarantee about awards shows and end of the year lists is that, inevitably, no one can ever agree on them. Rather than attempting to assign a numerical rank to...
by rookerville.com | Dec 31, 2013 | Featured, Movies, Pat Wong, Pop Culture, Russ Stevens, Ted McLoof
First off welcome to the Penguin Awards. This is Rookerville’s attempt to wrap up the year. The one guarantee about awards shows and end of the year lists is that, inevitably, no one can ever agree on them. Rather than attempting to assign a numerical rank to...
