Straight from my heart to your sleeves, or my lips to your head, or any other combination therof. I’ve decided in my travels to come up with a list of way too obvious (and some not so obvious) guidelines for being a filmmaker. I suppose these are as much for my sake as they are [...]
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Machete – Review
Machete earns its R rating in the first 10 minutes. I don’t want to ruin the impact, but we’re given a tour de force of sex and violence and done in such overblown ways that it’s impossible not to riotously laugh at what you’re seeing. In this way, Machete actually quickly rises to the level [...]
Box Office Trifecta of Tripartisanship – or how I learned to start caring and hate Eat Pray Love
As the summer box office rolled to a close, there was still one big battle to be had, and it would be between a set of films that couldn’t be more different. In one corner there was the manliest of manliest movies: The Expendebles, a history making franchise that promised to reunite the greatest action [...]
Jonah Hex Cover Crisis
This comes from Adam Quigley @alwayswatching. Here’s the new DVD and blu-ray cover art for the home video release of Jonah Hex. I guess the marketing department decided the reason the movie bombed was because Josh Brolin wasn’t pretty enough. This is one of the most ridiculous and laughable change-ups I’ve seen in many a [...]
Lock & Load
I absolutely love Matt Zoller Seitz’s video essays. Check out this latest video from Matt, Aaron Aradillas and Steven Santos. Lock & Load from Steven Santos on Vimeo.
Karin Fong: Making Awesome Title Sequences
I’m a huge fan of title sequences in movies and it’s not uncommon for me to find myself in love with a TV show’s title sequence even more than the actual show itself. It combines everything I love about the medium into one small package. From the word go a great title sequence can grab [...]
Drive Requiem
The only thing more cliched than Hollywood being filled with broken dreams of stardom is that great TV shows get cancelled. FOX in particular has a less than stellar history of this, managing to do away with some great fan favourites, the most famous of them being Firefly which received enough passionate noise over the [...]
Canada is Sexy Hot!
I’ve gotten to see some TV during my trip to Vancouver, and while I often watch TV on my own terms, (ie. through Bittorrent) one thing I never get to see is commercials. One trend I noticed over this last week… Canada is fucking sexy. Movies From Space First up is the Space Channel’s bumper [...]
Cinema of the Unreal: Part 2
I recently rewatched Charlie’s Angels. You can blame the Playstation Network for that one. You see, they recently began distributing VOD movies in Canada and as a promotion they gave away a free digital copy of Charlie’s Angels to all members. I’m guess for Christmas they’ll give me a digital lump of coal. Okay, it [...]
Zack Snyder is About to Sucker Punch Us All: Cinema of the Unreal Part 1
The geek film world has been thrown into a tizzy recently with the release of the teaser for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Previous to that, it had been shown to a small collective audience that stood in line for six hours at Comicon’s Hall H. Now everyone’s excited, and I’ll admit, it looks cool, the [...]
