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Ben & Arthur (2002)
What a waste!
A blank videotape these days can be had for 99 cents. This film was shot on videotape, and believe me, it was 99 cents wasted. The film is ineptly written, ineptly directed, ineptly acted, and ineptly designed. The same folding table shows up in several of the interiors, indicating that the Mraovich family (whose names are all over this venture) must not own much furniture. The priest's inner sanctum set looks like painted cardboard, and features the ever present folding table.
With a story that wants to be earnest, the director created a slow-moving, poorly acted melodrama. Plot "twists" make no sense (why murder the never-before-or-after-seen secretary?) And if someone takes a bullet in the shoulder, shouldn't there be a wound or some blood at least?
I found myself thinking that someone said, "Hey, I got this video camera at the Goodwill store. Let's make a movie!" How did this make it to the DVD market?
The Merry Monahans (1944)
a lost treasure
Oh, how I wish this film were on video or dvd! I saw it countless times on late night TV when I was growing up in the late 50s and early 60s. Now it seems to have vanished. What a shame! The Merry Monahans is a feel good movie. My heart always leapt at the ending. The cast is magnificent, the music infectious, the whole thing a delight!
Center Stage (2000)
Don't Get Lost in the Crowd
This theme song perfectly embodies Center Stage, a film about love--love for yourself, for others, for parents, for your work.
The movie features bright young talents who hammer home that if we don't feel passionately about ourselves and what we do, then we must do something else! Along the way, we get to enjoy some of the best, most inventive dancing put on film, from new choreography by Broadway great Susan Stroman to classic works by Balanchine and Mc Millan. What a treat! Revel in the dancing; revel in the music; revel in the fresh, new performers like Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, and Zoe Saldana, and favorites like Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Priscilla Lopez, and Mary Ann Plunkett. But most of all, revel in your own uniqueness, for this is what this movie is about