Words and Movies

Category: Crowe, Cameron

  • Reel 50: Inspired TV

    Reel 50: Inspired TV

    Yow! We’ve made it to the 50-episode mark! Thanks so much for your support; we couldn’t have done it without you. Today we’re looking at a pair of films that bear a very strong resemblance to a pair of television shows, but (on paper, at least) there’s no official connection between the two productions. We…

  • Reel 48: A Fan’s Eye View

    Reel 48: A Fan’s Eye View

    Strap in, kids, this is going to be a long one. It took forever for Sean and I to get to this particular episode, and both of us have been dying—DYING, I tells ya—to talk about Almost Famous. It may be Sean’s favorite film that doesn’t involve music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It’s certainly one…

  • Reel 14: Foreign Exchange, Part 1

    As we noted last week, we’re accelerating the rate of episode releases for a couple of weeks to make up for the lengthy gap in our recent output. This week is the first of a series of films in which we look at both the foreign original version and compare it to the American English…