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Category Archives: Movies
September 2, 2009
12:28 pm
The folks behind the upcoming animated movie 9 have created a “mad science journal” that could be seen a prequel-esque diegetic artifact, insofar as it includes “ink blots, sketches and doomsday prophesies” as well as a whole bunch of information as to how the ragdoll characters of the film came to exist. According to the […]
January 30, 2009
11:49 am
Thanks to the hard work of my old friend Bill Coughlan and our film troupe Tohubohu Productions, I have recently had an old dream realized. I am now in the IMDB. The film that got me there is The Big Lie That Solves Everything, the third short film I produced with Tohubohu and our entry […]
(Note: I should preface this bit of writing with a warning: what follows is a first attempt to set down some things I’ve been struggling to articulate for the past couple of years. As such, it may be slightly less than ideally coherent, but hopefully out of it some clarity will emerge.) What is literature? […]
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November 26, 2008
9:31 am
Now I’m a big fan of the gray lady, and I’m also a big fan of long, complicated sentences, but Manohla Dargis should be taken aside and given a strict talking-to for this doozy in today’s review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: Though “Australia” is narrated by a young boy of mixed race, Nullah (the newcomer […]
November 11, 2008
5:55 pm
My campaign to dominate the American media-on-the-media continues in a sound bite I provided for the New York Daily News article called “The Q factor: How the science behind James Bond’s gadgets was reinvented“. For added awesomeness, I even got the last word on the subject – and the subject is fantastical doohickeys.
I have just discovered that, in addition to Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Pratchett’s Nation, Link’s Pretty Little Monsters and Carroll’s The Ghost in Love, Louis De Bernieres’ new book A Partisan’s Daughter hit shelves today. I yield! I yield! My poor wallet! What else could this fall possibly throw at me? (Well, there’s this, this, […]
September 30, 2008
3:00 pm
Consider this a public service announcement that Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Terry Pratchett’s Nation AND Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love are out today. TODAY. Go! Stop reading this and go, dammit! Hie thee to a bookstore! Or Amazon! I could also note that the 2-disc Blu-Ray set of Iron Man is out today, […]
First it was the buy-one-get-one-free sale on Criterion Collection DVDs at DeepDiscount (which concluded as of midnight last night, thank God), but now Apple has launched a $6.99 and $7.99 sale on Classical and Jazz albums. My wallet! My poor, innocent, empty wallet! I mean, seriously – Hilary Hahn! Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone! Joshua […]
I’ll come back to this subject in a week or so, because all the things I really want to talk about in Nolan’s The Dark Knight are going to require a decent number of spoilers, and trust me – this is not a movie you want spoiled. It has nothing (well, almost nothing) to do […]
I would be remiss if I didn’t point out to all my media-loving friends out there the buy one get one free sale currently going on over at DeepDiscount.com. My picks: Box Sets Monsters and Madmen (4 films) Olivier’s Shakespeare (3 films) Akira Kurosawa Sanjuro Seven Samurai Frederico Fellini La Strada 8 1/2 Ingmar Bergman […]
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