social-creature

“I am real!” said Alice, and began to cry.
- Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

I always find it fascinating when movies do things that executives didn’t expect. Entertainment, particularly the kind with narratives and characters, is like a Rorschach test where what we have to say about the inkblot and what the inkblot [...]

Have you seen these billboards?

They’re all over the place:

Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe?

Well, answer #1 goes like this:
Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat in those jeans! [...]

“We read to know we are not alone.”
- C.S. Lewis

in retrospect, it’s not so surprising that while i was studying film in college i was also producing art and music events as an extra-curricular activity. i joke that producing a movie and producing an event are pretty much exactly the same process, except with [...]

absolutely phenomenal:

“the biggest problem americans have is what cereal to buy in the cereal aisle.”
-my dad (who spent the first 56 years of his life in the USSR)

i’ve been watching my friend sarah write about her adventures in crazyblinddate land, and it’s gotten me thinking.
sarah explains:
CrazyBlindDate.com was started by the folks who brought us OkCupid — [...]

first, you need to watch the trailer for sony pictures’ across the universe: here. if you cannot be trusted to come back here afterwards, however, you can just watch the shittier-quality youtube version:

ok then. now that you have been adequately briefed, we can begin.
i first saw the trailer for across the universe on quicktime.com in [...]

 
 
“We’re the most permeable membrane in show-business. Anyone who thinks they’re part of Mystic Family Circus probably is.”
- Mystic Family Circus in Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of the Circus

ok… i’m going to confess: i didn’t read the cult of the amateur (and i’ve read enough reviews of it at this point to be [...]

as much as i love movies about teenagers i love movies about superheroes. i haven’t figured out exactly what the connection is between the two, but there’s definitely something similar about characters that experience everything in extreme.
last night i watched blood and chocolate and realized something that i’d already noticed happening in casino royale: the [...]

one of my favorite movie moments of the past decade has got to be that moment in x-men 2 when iceman and the rest of the teen mutants are hiding out at iceman’s house and his mom asks, him “have you ever tried….not…being a mutant?” like it would just solve everything.
i went to see the [...]

craving some easy meaning i went to blockbuster on a quest for a teen movie from the mid 80’s - mid 90’s. i am an addict for these movies. from sixteen candles to edward scissorhands. with heathers, pretty in pink, breakfast club, the legend of billie jean, and empire records in the middle. yo, i’ll [...]