Thank Christ: Bigtime Creepface Guillermo Del Toro And Disney Team Up to Terrify Children
This is a little tidbit that hits me at the opportune time in my life. In the past few years I’ve come to the definite conclusion that children need to be scared more. It’s hard to tell if it’s because I’m older (and fending off exaggerated-by-nostalgia feelings of enthusiastic terror) or if it really is [...]
Read MoreMichael Moore Aggressively Bites the Feeding Hand
Michael Moore obviously doesn’t give a fuck. That being said, he definitely gives a fuck. And that’s the essence of his persona. He’s the rebel with a cause. He’s the little prankster that utilizes the sheepish grin in defense of God’s Americans. He’ll throw a tantrum and scream and yell until some Momma somewhere show’s [...]
Read MorePan and Scan Deconstructed by Famous Directors
At this point the injustice of practice of pan-and-scan (cropping movies to fit the standard 4:3 television screen) is widely accepted. Once the ire of filmmakers, savvy film viewers are increasingly in the same boat with the opinion that changing the format of a movie in turn changes the moviegoing experience. And never for the [...]
Read More‘Alive in Joburg’ Lays the Groundwork for Starter-kit Cinema
I just saw director Neill Blomkamp‘s District 9 yesterday and like most movies I pretty much knew what to expect going in. To the extent you want to save your purity for District 9 you really don’t wan’t to watch this next clip, the 6-minute short film “Alive in Joburg.” If you know anything about [...]
Read MoreCalifunya Episode 4 – The Key to My Happiness
Check out episode 4 of Califunya, where the girls finds a giant key to happiness. Califunya is one of the series from Wieden and Kennedy Entertainment It’s the most experimental of the group, with a sparse and confidently weird style…
Read MoreThe Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson Defiantly Ventures Deeper Into His Own Style
With the release Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer he simultaneously released a declaration of commitment to his own vision. In recent years (first with The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou then more-so with The Darjeeling Limited) the critical establishment has began to sway against Anderson. The same style he forged and developed with [...]
Read MoreHumpday gets Mumblecore
Over the past near-decade a film movement dubbed “mumblecore” has sprouted out from the nooks and crannies of independent film. It gets its name from the rambling mumble of real life moments. The defining trait is a naturalistic approach to character. Digital cameras. Non-actors. Typically the films are heavy on conversational-improvisation and deal almost-exclusively with [...]
Read MoreBruno Castrated In Order to Maximize Quantity of Dollar Bills Garnered by Studio
In a startling move by Universal Studios, they’ve decided to re-cut Bruno in order to get a wider audience in the UK and Ireland. They’ve snipped and spliced so as to achieve the equivalent of our PG-13 rating. Apparently the demand is so ravenous that the studio had no choice but to relent and offer [...]
Read MoreReally? Seriously? Ok… Hell YES!! MacGruber!?!
Oh, if only every day could start with news as shockingly glorious as this. SNL’s resident bumbling MacGuyver wanna be, MacGruber, is coming to the big screen. Normally, any SNL related news pretty much gets mentally shredded, because for all I’m concerned SNL is now doing just as much to sully the name of comedy [...]
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