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Man of Steel – Official Trailer #2
by Matt Wharton on December 12, 2012
Man of Steel teaser trailers
by Matt Wharton on July 22, 2012
Not one but two teaser trailers for Man of Steel have been released, essentially the same trailer with different voice-overs. From the look of the trailers the movie feels more like Terence Malick’s Man of Steel than a Zack Snyder film. Nice use of The Bridge Of Khazad Dum from the score to The Fellowship of the Ring and I love the visual of him breaking through the sound barrier.
Russell Crowe as Jor-El
Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent
Review: Waiting for Superman
by Matt Wharton on July 15, 2012
I recently saw the film Waiting for Superman, which despite the title is not a comic book film but a documentary about the US education system.
It had received rave reviews but I think it was deeply flawed, it oversimplified the problem and was emotional manipulative.
Basically it poses the question why is the US no longer top of the world when it comes to education league tables?
Comparing the 1950s with today the US seems to have dropped from #1 to around #20
One of the reasons offered is that part of the issue is that the rest of the world has simply caught up with the US economically in the intervening period. The film covers this entire aspect in less than a minute and spends a large proportion of the film attacking the teacher’s unions.
Bad teachers lead to poor teaching and poor teaching leads to a cycle of educational underachievement for many students.
Bad teachers stay in their jobs due to their union-secured contracts which guarantee them tenure (which unlike tenure for university professors is apparently automatic after just a number years of service) and tenured teachers are virtually impossible to dismiss.
This is probably part of the problem but it ignores the larger socio-political issues.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
by Matt Wharton on July 12, 2012
Amy and I decided that we should try to make a real effort to watch more films because it is something that we both love to do that we somehow fell out of the habit of doing. To think back in the days of working at the cinema I was watching around 100 films a year.
We started with a quirky comedy that my brother recommended to me called Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
Review: Chronicle
by Matt Wharton on June 12, 2012
Review: Prometheus
by Matt Wharton on June 5, 2012
Review: Ides of March
by Matt Wharton on April 3, 2012
Review: Man on a Ledge
by Matt Wharton on February 5, 2012
Review: The Grey
by Matt Wharton on January 31, 2012
Movie Reviews: 1985, 1986 and 1987
by Matt Wharton on January 28, 2012
Indulged in a bit of 80s nostalgia today when I happened to catch each of these movies on TV on different channels. Strange coincidence they were screened in the same order as they came out in cinemas.