The Rum Diary (2011)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is an American journalist who has relocated to San Juan, Puerto Rico as a freelance writer in the 1950s. He’s hired by a not-so-great...
View ArticleThe Broken Tower (2011)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Hart Crane was an early 20th century modernist poet. His poetry was difficult to understand, it was highly stylized, and very ambitious. James Franco, as writer,...
View ArticleGainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris in 1928 to Russian-Jewish emigrants, was possibly the greatest European cultural icon of the twentieth century, most...
View ArticleLondon Boulevard (2010)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: London Boulevard is the directorial debut of William Monahan. Monahan won an Oscar for his script for the film Departed, which would explain the similarities between...
View ArticleAnswers to Nothing (2011)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Answers to Nothing join films like Crash and Babel in the multiple-stories-that-interlock genre. In this Crash-like (or lite) film, director and co-writer Matthew...
View Article“We’re Home”: Star Wars 7 & Vocation
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: This week the second official trailer for Star Wars VII was released. In no time, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere were alive with comments and thoughts about...
View ArticleAmerican Sniper (2014)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: No matter where you stand on the war in Iraq debate, American Sniper is a film worth watching. I was torn when the film was released. Did we need another war film?...
View Article5 Movies on Netflix Worth Watching
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Here are five movies currently streaming on Netflix that you might find worth watching. Dark Skies (2013): This film was marketed to those viewers who wanted more...
View ArticlePirate’s Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson (2015)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Pirate’s Code is a sequel to the earlier film Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure. This time Mickey (Derek Brandon) comes face-to-face with the evil Admiral...
View ArticleWhere Hope Grows (2015)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: I wrote the following review of the film “Where Hope Goes” for ScreenFish.net. Calvin Campbell (Kristoffer Polaha) is a former baseball player who is searching for a...
View ArticleGalaxy Buck: Mission to Sector 9 (2015)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Phil Vischer, one half of the creative team behind VeggieTales, stepped out in faith after loosing his big dream of Big Idea productions and started Jellyfish Labs....
View ArticleDo You Believe? (2015)
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: After the unexpected success of God’s Not Dead at the box-office, Christian movie-makers attempted to capitalize on this success with Do You Believe? The film is set...
View ArticlePete’s Dragon and the Magic of Believing
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: The little boy wanders through the forest, alone and scared. Unsure what to do or where to go, he clings to a book about Elliot the dog. It is the only source of...
View Article“Believe” and the Meaning of Christmas
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: Emmy-nominated director Billy Dickson has written an endless number of family-based, faith-based scripts. Most them, however, have only collected dust. Dickson told...
View Article‘Lego Batman’ and the Importance of Family
The latest from jasoncstanley.com: “You can’t be a hero if you’re only thinking about yourself.” -Barbara Gordon The team behind the 2014 surprise box office hit, The Lego Movie, had produced a fun,...
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