Peter Murmann

The two previous blockbuster movies by Pixar, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, became such an artistic success because the animal and cartoon characters were more human than most characters in films populated by humans. I was skeptical whether you could turn automobiles into believable human characters. After all, people often love their cars, but they [Read More]

Good writing goes a long way. I have seen the famous picture of King Kong on the Empire State Building in New York many times. “Isn’t that silly. Such an ape would never climb on top of the New York skyline,” was my reaction every single time. I was never much interested in seeing [Read More]

I buried Woody Allen tonight. The first 90 minutes of Match Point were entirely repetitive of his previous films,  with the exception the location:  the film takes place in London and not Manhattan. I wished I had stayed home and not wasted time on such a trivial movie. Allen’s final mission in life seems to [Read More]

Charlie is charming poor boy who lives not far from the world largest chocolate factory. Besides mom and dad, the four grandparents stay in Charlie’s small Hansel and Gretel house whose holes in the roof provide Charlie more with a sense of adventure than discomfort. Presenting an unusual picture of inter-family bliss, the four grandparents [Read More]

The Island takes you on a surprising trip. You think that you will end up on a tropical paradise, but the films takes you to lands that you never expected. And it will make you think about your own life in ways that you may have never dared before. It’s a journey worth taking.

Both the recent Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings trilogies baffle me. I thought the first Lord of the Rings film was fantastic. The story built on thousands of years of human mythology and offered visually arresting pictures of a fantasy world inhabited by humans, almost humans, and many other [Read More]

Would Pixar Studios be able to put out another movie in the league of Finding Nemo? During the first hour I became skeptical but the second hour proved this film to be amazingly good as well. I am awed by the creativity of Pixar. How do these people continue to crank out one commercial and [Read More]

The movie has a standard plot of a science fiction film:  a madman tries to destroy the world as we know it. What renders this airplane movie charming, however, is that it makes a serious attempt to recreate how people in 1939 would have imagined a sci-fi world. At the time, German technological prowess [Read More]

  I asked the stewardess just after the plane had taken off: “Do you know what movie is going to be shown today?” “The Notebook,” she replied. “It is a chick flick, but it is really good.” The film turned out to be a love story where everything goes right. When misfortune seems to deliver [Read More]

  Two people hit a wall in their romantic relationship. But medical science offers a rather painless way out. Simply remove all memories of the other person. For her it works. But for him it is much more difficult to let go. This is an interesting film for a number of reasons:  It takes [Read More]