When It Goes Wrong

Dish Network decided to give me Showtime for a week, and I recorded some movies that I hadn’t seen in theaters.  Viewing them made me think about ways that creative projects can fail, and how the failure can be in the writing.  So I thought I’d share my thoughts, that being what these blog-things are supposedly for. Valkyrie.  Tom Cruise vs. Hitler.  Hardly seems fair, right? Valkyrie is a detailed, quite authentic movie version of Klaus Graf von Stauffenberg’s attempt to assassinate Hitler...