James Sims

Movies

  • Adding Music to Movies by Way of the Stage: Sleepless in Seattle to Kinky Boots

    Adding Music to Movies by Way of the Stage: Sleepless in Seattle to Kinky Boots

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    James Sims

    Having recently made my way back to Los Angeles after spending the past five years in New York City, it’s apparent that this Hollywood diet isn’t exclusive to Broadway.

  • Iconic Movies Filmed at Lincoln Center

    Iconic Movies Filmed at Lincoln Center

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    James Sims

    Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City is quite the visual landmark—Revson Fountain, the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall. So many iconic visuals collected in one center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, many drawing some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers to the destination.

  • My Picks: 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

    My Picks: 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

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    James Sims

    A lot of quality films hit the big screen this past year, and many of them are captured in my Globe picks. We’ll see how these compare to the actual results on Sunday, January 15, 2012. How do your picks compare?

  • The Globe Shakespeare Coming to a Movie Theater Near You

    The Globe Shakespeare Coming to a Movie Theater Near You

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    James Sims

    As the warm months of summer arrive, across the country, local communities are carrying on a long-running tradition of performing Shakespeare’s classic works in parks and outdoors venues.  New Yorkers have the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park series, currently playing in Central Park, while nearly every major city across the country has some form…

  • Disney Hurts Hand-Drawn Animation with ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 3D

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    James Sims

    Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” a film that set the standard for not just animation, but for the art of musical storytelling, garnered such critical praise in its initial theatrical release that it received multiple Academy Award nominations. Had Walt Disney been alive, he would have surely been proud — the founding father of Walt…

  • Jeffrey Katzenberg Eroded Animation with Celebrities

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    James Sims

    Katzenberg, with the soft-spoken help of Roy Disney, injected new life into the animation arm of the studio following a drought that lasted more than 30 years.

  • Pixar Animates Life Behind the Scenes

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    James Sims

    With ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty‘ currently playing in a limited release at movie theaters around the country, interest in a behind-the-scenes look at Disney animation is high. The documentary is both entertaining and educational, as it depicts the business side of studio production and how not everyone working at Disney spends their days whistling while they…

  • Recap of Academy Awards Live Tweets

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    James Sims

    The 82nd Annual Academy Awards are over and Hollywood is settling in for another year of blockbusters, indies and box office disasters. While the battle between ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Avatar’ kept things interesting leading up to awards night, there was little drama on Sunday evening. ‘The Hurt Locker’ obliterated that sci-fi gargantuan that was…

  • Hollywood Directors Go Viral

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    James Sims

    The Golden Globe nominations were announced this week, placing a handful of Hollywood directors on a pedestal for all others to admire. Martin Scorsese will be bestowed with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award while James Cameron has returned from his post-‘Titanic‘ absence to join Clint Eastwood, Quentein Tarantino, Jason Reitman and Kathryn Bigelow in…

  • Muppets Rock Out To Queen

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    James Sims

    Queen, the iconic rock band led by the equally iconic singer Freddie Mercury, has found its way into the world of Jim Henson‘s Muppets. Earlier this week Muppets Studio, now owned by the Walt Disney Company, released a video on YouTube featuring nearly all of the classic Muppet characters rocking out to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”…