Oh, but by the testosterone-soaked macho posturing of Bruce Willis, Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre has crafted something damn near perfect today in his My Dinner With Blank Meme. In a post that veers wildly from sublime to horrifying to vulgar to ecstatic and finally winds up right in the heart of Crazy And Violent [...]

Today’s “wow” moment comes courtesy of the ever-insightful Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre who draws a pretty damn spectacular parallel between David Fincher’s terrific 1997 movie The Game and a certain oft-recreated Christmas story. This comparison never occurred to me, and it’s really a delightful discussion-starter.

My blog-pal Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre seems to be going through something of an identity crisis as he celebrates a week-long, one-year blog-birthday. Things started out strange, then became odd, and now have degenerated into downright creepy. In fact, it’s been a load of fun and involves puppet sex, so I’d mightily encourage [...]

I thought we’d take a little educational detour here today on Burbanked and talk about the history of dramatic film editing. Long, long ago, many decades before Michael Bay ever hyper-edited a 6-minute shot into 48 component pieces, there lived a Russian filmmaker named Lev Kuleshov who had a revolutionary idea about film editing: that [...]