Archive for March, 2009:

Who’s watching the Wall-E? »

Oh I do so love this mash-up.As the swell folks at Film School Rejects wisely point out, it’s a far better effort than simply matching audio from Movie A to the trailer of Movie B. The creator here truly puts feeling and meaning to this, draws parallels between the movies’ themes, is drawing a compelling [...]

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Day One: The Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken’s Eye Patch. »

It was an entire week ago – that’s just short of “forever” in blog-years – that my ever-lovin’ pal Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre meme’d me up but good with the following assignment:

Explain to the world The Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken’s Eye-Patch. Could be a one word sentence or could be a seven page [...]

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Sam Mendes is trying to wear me down. »

Sam Mendes has all the makings of a director I should love – but somehow I just don’t. Road to Perdition is one of those movies that I always “mean” to watch, yet never quite get there. I truly couldn’t stand American Beauty and Revolutionary Road looked good, but then negative buzz about the movie [...]

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Spider-Man 4 has a release date. »

Via Twitter, Sony Pictures has set May 6, 2011 as a release date for Spider-Man 4. So now that the Watchmen complaining is officially over, we can start fresh on Spidey-Bemoaning: Lizard vs. Kraven, kill off or don’t kill off Mary Jane, heart or hate Sam Raimi, and so on…

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This – once again – pretty much sums up my recent mood. »

Chief Brody and Son from Burbanked on Vimeo.

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The Public Enemies trailer is great enough to raise a dead blogger. »

I know I haven’t been ’round these parts too much lately – life, once again, has a way of making even my beloved blogging take a back seat in another car, speeding away on a rural road in the next county over – but Public Enemies is a Michael Mann film. With Depp and Bale. [...]

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