I just finished watching M. Night Shymalan’s latest film, Lady in the Water, and I thought it was brilliant. The fact that it didn’t fare so well in the box office ($42.2M, whereas The Village took in nearly $114.2M domestic) suggests that either the film was woefully mismarketed or that my fellow Americans have no […]
Man, I wish I’d gone to SDCC. Don’t suppose anyone out there could hook me up with one of these posters?
Very nifty piece on The New York Times about the a new digital filmmaking technique that’s set to blow Maya out of the water. (Thanks, Amanda!)
September 21, 2006
12:07 am
Tonight I was watching the special “making of” documentary on the original Labyrinth (yep, for the THESIS) when up popped the choreographer – one Cheryl McFadden. Who looked an awful lot like… Blink, blink. Wait a second! That’s Gates McFadden! Yep, Dr. Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation was the choreographer on both Labyrinth […]
September 17, 2006
1:55 pm
Lately here at CMS HQ we’ve been discussing what one media type has to offer over another media type, or what makes one type of media better than another for different types of stories (or, in my case, for different chapters of a single story). One characteristic of comics that doesn’t seem to be appearing […]
September 17, 2006
11:02 am
I’ve got a bunch of tabs to close this morning, so here goes. First up is an interview from Cinematical, where The Devil’s Backbone director Guillermo del Toro discusses his new film at the Toronto International Film Festival. The clip is being hosted over at the new Netscape site, which allows you to embed video […]
So, according to Cinematical (and countless other film blogs this week), the next Batman movie will be called The Dark Knight and will star Heath Ledger as the Joker. Heath Ledger. The Joker. Well, somebody’s sure joking around. I dunno – seeing Ledger play a villain would be kind of cool, but I’m not sure […]
Updated. After I had a chance to think about the film a little more in-depth, I decided to go back in and tighten the focus of my review, if you’ll pardon the pun. So this Fourth of July weekend has served as a reunion on several different fronts – my MIT friends Sam and Amanda […]
Tonight my housemate Jared and I caught a screening of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth at Harvard Square. (Those links go to IMDB; the official site for the movie is climatecrisis.net.) All of my friends that have seen it had been calling it “a surprisingly uplifting, compelling movie about Al Gore and a PowerPoint presentation.” […]
One of my great long-running personal projects is to watch all 100 films on the AFI Top 100 list, a scheme greatly aided by my Netflix account. Today, while continuing the listmaking that I’d started in earnest yesterday, I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a 1948 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart. Bogart […]
