ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on April 5, 2014

Captain America was my first favorite comic book superhero.  He wasn’t the first superhero I remember liking; that was Spider-Man from reruns of the late-1960s animated series.  Nor was he the superhero I was most exposed to; that was probably a tie between Superman, from reruns of the old G   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on April 2, 2014

On March 31, Matt Singer, News Editor of The Dissolve, wrote an op-ed titled, “Do We Really Need All These Set Photos?”  The piece nicely covers the incessant publication of leaked (or “leaked”) behind-the-scenes photos from the sets of most major blockbusters, citing how la   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on March 21, 2014

Every filmmaker faces a considerable hurdle when making a film set in a dystopian future.  The easy part is creating a world that is bleak and hopeless and undesirable and completely depressing.  The hard part is then populating this dreadful world with beautiful people.  And you have to populate i   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on March 16, 2014

I recently reviewed the action film 2 Guns for DVD Verdict. My open is a brief history of the biracial nature of the buddy picture.  I cite several films from the 1970s through today, many of which are cop movies.  I thought about this after watching this film, but of...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on March 14, 2014

In the mid 2000s, I used to blog about politics and social issues until managing the venom with which people would respond – down party lines and on both sides of the aisle, I might add – became more of an effort than the writing was worth. I wanted discourse....   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on January 17, 2014

I do not hail from a traditional “military family,” but my family has proudly served its country in the military.  Across several generations, on both maternal and paternal sides, and by blood and marriage, I have relatives who served in all four branches of the United States Armed Forc   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on January 11, 2014

Virtual relationships are not unlike traditional relationships. I’ve been on Twitter since April 2011.  During my near-three years and 11,000+ tweets on the social networking site, I’ve enjoyed friendships of varying depths, just as if I had met the same folks at school or at work or in   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on December 26, 2013

When VHS took off in the 1980s and the local mom-and-pop video rental store opened our account (read: gave us our own index card to track our rentals), I consumed catalogue titles at a blistering pace.  Many I had never seen but had only heard/read about.  Others made annual-ish airings...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on December 23, 2013

When I first began writing, it was in the area of fiction.  For years, no matter what the format (numerous short stories, several screenplays, and even a novel), I wrote in a vacuum; no one read my stuff but me.  I was mostly fearful of being judged.  When I created...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on December 18, 2013

It’s easy to grow jaded when it comes to animation. When you have kids and over the years they clamor to see every cartoon that hits the screens and you do everything you can to get them there because that’s your move, you eventually grow tired of it all –...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on December 12, 2013

In the time I spent in the car to get to and from my screening of director Alexander Payne‘s wonderful new film, Nebraska, I could have taken a plane to actual Nebraska and seen the movie there.  The one-hour ride to the theater was fine, but an unexpected snowstorm turned...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on December 1, 2013

As a member of the Classic Film Community, I often wonder what springs to people’s minds when a celebrity’s name is mentioned.  For example, mention Marilyn Monroe, and you are likely to get responses ranging from “bombshell” to Some Like It Hot to President John F. Kennedy.   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on November 4, 2013

Think about your first love.  Think about who you were and what you were as an individual when you first met that first love.  Think about who you were and what you were as an individual – and as a couple – when that first love ended.  Think about everything...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on October 27, 2013

My favorite TV show from the 1980s is MacGyver.  It starred Richard Dean Anderson as something of a government operative who uses intellect – and whatever resources are handy – to get his way into and out of sticky situations.  Part spy and part Boy Scout, MacGyver, at his core, is...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on October 24, 2013

Whether classics like 1960′s The Time Machine, recent hits like 2012′s Looper, or even the mushy treacle in between, like 1980′s Somewhere in Time, I have always loved movies about time travel. My first recollection of being enamored by this notion was when I was in the 8th grade   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on October 19, 2013

After movies, music is the next important artistic thing in my life.  (I don’t play, mind you; I merely listen.)  So when movies and music combine, I’m usually all-in. I have no preference in terms of film genre, music genre, or film era.  I enjoy biopics like 1954′s The Glenn...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on October 12, 2013

It’s hard to believe that my first introduction to Tom Hanks – the first introduction to Hanks for many people, really – was when he played a cross-dresser.  Twenty-one years before producing 2001′s Band of Brothers; fifteen years before voicing Woody in the first Toy Story   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on October 4, 2013

Prior to seeing this year’s Iron Man 3 in IMAX 3D, my last experience with an IMAX screen was sometime around the 8th grade (that would be the early 1980s for those of you wondering) at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.  Back then, movies that played on IMAX screens weren’t...   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on September 8, 2013

Once again I find myself wondering where the time went.  To paraphrase Anthony Hopkins in 1998′s Meet Joe Black: “Thirty-one days.  Don’t they go by in a blink?” Of course, an event is not an event without the people who participate in it, and I cannot thank them enough for   read more

ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on August 29, 2013

In January 2012, I had the privilege of participating in an award-winning blogging event that deconstructed every aspect of Alfred Hitchcock‘s masterpiece, Vertigo (1958).  My contribution to the event, hosted by The Lady Eve of The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, was an in-depth analysis of the   read more