Can we learn from anything from the past, or would applying those lessons make everyone a tad nervous?
Please Pardon My Progress
Posted on November 12, 2011 by James RileyThe Wee Little Minds Behind “Hell on Wheels” “..the battle of man scarring nature, verses, this, the beauty of nature..” “..in some ways it’s an anti-western..” “..hell on wheels is dragging the urban blight and the industry of the east across the west and changing it for ever; it’s kinda the beginning of the west […]
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Can we learn from anything from the past, or would applying those lessons make everyone a tad nervous?
Wholesome or Whole?
Posted on November 1, 2011 by James RileyHow ‘wholesome entertainment’ can be wrong-headed I’ve never been a big fan of calling the merely vulgar ‘ground-breaking.’ I can’t sit through more than about four minutes of Glee and I find even 45 seconds of Deadwood painfully trite in its practiced obscenity. The sort of person who writes a script merely to offend […]
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Margin Call
Posted on October 30, 2011 by James RileyWell, we will be screening the 2nd episode of “Courage, New Hampshire” tonight and I took a little insomnia time last night to watch J.C. Chandor’s financial suspense film, Margin Call. As pure story, it’s very, very tight stuff. A risk analyst at a major investment bank discovers something very scary in the CDOs (Collateralized debt obligations) the firm was […]
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“On the Bay” with Tony Katz — October, 2011
Posted on October 29, 2011 by James RileyClick HERE to watch the interview. As promised, “On the Bay” — our show between shows. In this episode, Tony Katz asks Courage star Nathan Kershaw (“Bob Wheedle”) about loyalty, acting in America, and his home in Great Britain. Also featured: Lorraine Pope (“Molly Pine”) Click HERE to watch the interview.
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The Faith, Then and Now..
Posted on October 26, 2011 by James RileyVintage Spirit Part II A few days ago, I promised to begin a series on the faith of our fathers, and compare it to the faith of our brothers–how things in the church, and in the heart of the faithful, have changed. This very well might be an outline for a book, so I mean […]
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Vintage Spirit
Posted on October 14, 2011 by James RileyPart I Several weeks ago, the leader of a Christian film ministry sent me a critique of the first episode. I’ll just call him “Chad”, since my intent here is not to pick a fight, but just to use his commentary as an indicator of the faith has changed over the last 250 years. […]
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Can we learn from anything from the past, or would applying those lessons make everyone a tad nervous?
What A Patriot Ate
Posted on September 27, 2011 by CynthiaMcCloud.WoodmanA Revolutionary soldier off fighting for freedom ate very differently than he did when home. The daily rations were issued un-cooked and a set of cooking utensils was issued to a group of six to twelve men. This group or “mess” of men would probably have chosen the best cook among them to prepare the […]
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Story-boarding Courage
Posted on August 11, 2011 by James RileyFrame by Frame We’re heading down the stretch to principle photography for episode 2 of Courage, New Hampshire — “The Sons of Liberty.” Yesterday, we spent the better part of the day story-boarding the first week of shooting and it reminds me of a confession a big studio director once made about a major Pixar animation film. […]
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Those Arrogant Brits
Posted on July 30, 2011 by James RileyRight now, we’re putting the finishing touches on the high school version of our Courage, New Hampshire curriculum supplement, and Megan Ernst and I are debating causes of the Revolution. Certainly there are quite a few threads to tie together in weaving the causal tapestry — English common law, the Reformation, the Great Awakening, the […]
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