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In college, we film students had a certain sense of disdain and smug superiority towards our TV-major classmates. Miramax, along with the whole independent film movement it was spearheading, had just hit it’s apex while we’d been in high school, and the late 90’s / early 2000’s saw the releases of such epics as The [...]

Been meaning to post about this for a while, but been mad busy.
I’m super digging the ad campaign for the The Surrogates, due out September 25th. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Robert Venditti, the world of the Surrogates is a future in which direct human interaction has all but ceased. [...]

“I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”
- Banksy
Well, it’s the future, and fame has propagated apace with Moore’s law. Thus, it only makes sense that 30 years since the release of Fame, [...]

Have you noticed the slate of WWII resistance movies lately? There’s last year’s Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, which depicts the actual attempted plot devised by a cadre of senior German officers to assassinate Hitler. Earlier this year saw the release of Defiance, also based on a true story, with Daniel Craig and Liev Schriber portraying [...]

Of course, as soon as I say that I’m taking a break from writing here to work on finishing a fiction project something like this happens. Perez Hilton just posted some fresh out the oven images from Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland Movie (due out 2010). Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks [...]

Rian Johnson, the writer/director of Brick, has a new movie out called The Brothers Bloom, and it comes with a pretty neat idea:

I’ve never heard of anyone doing this before, and Johnson admits the same at the beginning of the commentary. But for the man who came up with the idea to make a movie [...]

Lemme tell you…. If you’ve ever put on a music festival, you will appreciate this:

“You have a permit, right?”
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At Passover Seder a friend of my mother’s brought me a DVD of the movie Stilyagi (”Стиляги.”)
The movie is about a counter-culture youth movement that took place in mid-1950’s USSR. These kids would listen to jazz, dress in outlandish western fashion, with zoot suit jackets and skinny pants, style their hair into pompadours, call each [...]

Just saw the trailer for the latest Bret Easton Ellis adaptation: The Informers – Check it (if you’re seeing this in a reader, click HERE to see the video).

Ellis is one of my favorite writers. There’s a lot of people out there who enjoy his writing in a disturbingly literal way (particularly the people who [...]

I noticed something interesting the other day in the trailer for the forthcoming 2012 movie. At the end of the trailer, (which–though the movie stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and Thandie Newton–doesn’t include a single star, instead giving off a distinctly Baraka-like “documentary” feel, depicting only Buddhist monks and a typically [...]