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Blog Entries by Dan Persons from 02/2010

ReelzChannel: The Top Ten "No Escape" Scenarios

| Posted 02.05.2010

In the new movie Frozen, a group of fun-loving snowboarders -- played by Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zegers -- get stuck on a chair lift. As t...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Shutter Island Press Conference

| Posted 02.09.2010

Shutter Island is Martin Scorsese's latest work, a dark exploration of the human psyche that has Leonardo DiCaprio investigating the disappearance of an inmate from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Family Crash: Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher on October Country

| Posted 02.12.2010

A tangent here, but stick with me: At the beginning of the animated film, My Neighbors the Yamatas, director Isao Takahata envisions the world of his ...

ReelzChannel: Family Be Damned - Top 10 Cursed Movie Characters

| Posted 02.13.2010

The curse that trips its way through the branches of a family tree is a great means to get to an audience's gut. We are, after all, consigned to what we're handed by our forebears.

Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Podcast - Volume 1, Number 1: The Wolfman

| Posted 02.15.2010

This week's subject is The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins. The film is of course a remake of The Wolfman (1941), starring Lon Chaney Jr., which immortalized the werewolf legend on film.

Mighty Movie Podcast: All Power to the Pilgrim: Jessica Hausner on Lourdes

| Posted 02.18.2010

Lourdes observes the day-to-day process of nuns, priests, and wait staff serving a steady flow of faithful, and tracks what happens when Christine stands from her wheelchair and starts walking.

ReelzChannel: Shutter Island and 10 Others Not to Get "Lost" On

| Posted 02.22.2010

Teddy Daniels, the U.S. Marshal played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's new movie doesn't know what he's in for when he arrives on Shutter Is...

Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast - Vol. 1, No. 2: Shutter Island

| Posted 02.22.2010

In the second installment of Cinefantastique's new weekly podcast, Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French look at Martin Scorsese's new ho...

Mighty Movie Podcast: It's Beautiful, Now It's Mine: The Art of the Steal Interview

| Posted 02.26.2010

At one point in the new film The Art of the Steal, one of the people protesting the moving of Dr. Albert Barnes' art collection (Picasso, Modigliani, ...

ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies

| Posted 02.27.2010

It's a basic tenet of good storytelling that whatever plans your characters put into action, it can't hurt if things don't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.