Tag: The Truman Show

• Favorite Films of 1998

  I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. Hard to believe my last retrospective list in this series was almost two years ago. But I recently rewatched what ended up as my top two movies on this list and realized I hadn’t done this movie year yet, so here we are. I…

  Jul 8, 2024

  # best of, film, lists, movies, Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show

• 7 Beautiful Movie Music Moments

  Sometimes we as moviegoers have to let movies affect us in ways we cannot explain or control. One of those ways is through music. Whether it is an epic orchestral theme or a lone piano suite, music in the movies can make the difference in how I respond to the story. Listening to a CD…

  Dec 4, 2011

  # Alan Silvestri, Cast Away, film, Glen Hansard, Howard Shore, lists, Lord of the Rings, movies, music, Once, Philip Glass, Remember the Titans, The Truman Show, Trevor Rabin, WALL-E

• Stranger Than Fiction

  Originally published in the North Central Chronicle on January 18, 2009, as part of a series called “Chad Picks Classic Flicks.” An artist may not set out to create something that changes the world, but he just might do it by mistake. Marc Forster’s 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction is a movie about fate—or “the…

  Jan 18, 2009

  # Chad Picks Classic Flicks, Emma Thompson, film, Maggie Gyllenhaal, movies, NCC Chronicle, review, Stranger Than Fiction, The Truman Show, Will Ferrell