It is no secret that the summer cinema is littered with Comic Book Blockbusters. If it’s not Harry Potter, it’s a costume wearing, rise to the top, coming of age, origin story of one of your favorite childhood comic book characters. There is joy and pain in the process. Wolverine, and Daredevil have been mangled [...]
Archive for March, 2011
The Comic Book Conundrum
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“HOLD UP!” The Death of Hip Hop’s Greatest Hook Man
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Waking to the news that Nate Dogg had died of a heart attack wasn’t that shocking. Nate had suffered a stroke only a year or two earlier and it was widely reported his health was fading. What was shocking though, was the emotion I felt knowing that it was the end of an era. Growing [...]
The Power of the Edit
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We’ve all done it, we leave a movie thinking “but the trailer made it seem so freaking awesome! Why did that movie suck?” In the process of making a movie, you create your film three seperate times. Once, when the film is written, twice when the film is shot, and third, final, and most importantly, [...]
The Adjustment Bureau
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’s OSCAR night, I’m sitting at home, a fascinating movie trailer flashes across the screen! Matt Damon is being chased by shady individuals wearing fedora hats, the music is suspensful, the mood is tense, they open a closet door and reveal the outside world then a woman without a hat opens the same door to [...]
Rango, 3-D and other Ramblings
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This weekend I took my family to see “Rango”, a quirky animated film starring the voice of Johnny Depp, and mostly an animal homage to spaghetti westerns. The most wonderful thing about “Rango” is that when the film started and my youngest daughter said “Where are my glasses?” I got to say, “you don’t need them, [...]
