The Sci-Fi Chronicles brings me another Spielberg film to cover that I previously hadn’t for the blog. A.I. This one proved to be a very divisive film for a lot of viewers, originally planned to be a Stanley Kubrick film a lot of film fans believe that Spielberg over-sentimentalizes it and makes it a…
Tag: Robin Williams
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) – Chris Columbus
The final recommendation from my screening of Way Out West in the family genre of the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book is this wonderful Chris Columbus film starring Robin Williams, who turns in a wonderfully fantastic performance as Daniel Hillard. Daniel is a fun-loving voice actor, who can rarely take anything…
Trailer Tracks: Insomnia (2002) – Christopher Nolan
Robin Williams. Everyone thinks he was just a comedian, but he was a Julliard trained actor, and he could bring out his dramatic chops when he needed to, and he went head to head with Al Pacino in Nolan’s thriller…
Trailer Tracks: Dead Poets Society (1989) – Peter Weir
Robin Williams. I so would have loved to have had a teacher like him in my life. I mean I did, in my own way, through his films, television and stand-up, but to have had a teacher like him through my schooling…
Trailer Tracks: Hook (1991) – Steven Spielberg
Continuing my nod to Robin Williams… I’m still trying to process the fact that he’s gone… here’s a film that I so related to him in. I’ve always been young at heart, and definitely like to keep my inner child alive, so there’s a Peter Pan quality there… and his rediscovery of that in…
Trailer Tracks: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) – Terry Gilliam
This was my introduction to the world of Terry Gilliam, as I discovered Monty Python late in life, and then started digging up other works that the Pythons had been involved in. And I love this film, it’s been forever since I’ve seen it, so it may be high time to do so, but…
