After Oscars

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Paul

Now that the Oscars are over, we all get to look back and defend our choices and continue to bash those that we felt were undeserving. But the truth is, often times when it comes down to an awards show like this, the actual movies and the work that they're showcasing get overshadowed. Wouldn't it be spectacular if the Oscars aired every single movie over a couple week period so everyone would be free to watch them and vote however they wanted? Since that's not really a possibility for most of Read more [...]

Locke and Key

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Paul

I've really grown weary of comic book adaptations in film in the past couple years. I've already written my thoughts on films like The Dark Knight Rises, but the genre as a whole has started to become stale and predictable, and is so top heavy with the over-bloated Marvel and DC universes which try to tie everything together that truly original and filmic movies like Scott Pilgrim and Kick-Ass* often get overshadowed in the long run. Based on a "Best Books of 2012" list on LitReactor (a great Read more [...]

Quick Reaction: A Good Day To Die H(uh?)ard

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Paul

God help us. In my mind, there should be a level of Hell devoted to movies that are so bad that they have absolutely no redeeming qualities. They're offensive. A Good Day To Die Hard is one of those movies with a big fat exclamation point on the end of it that it would probably wear as a badge of honor. $92 million dollars have been wasted by the American film industry, and all of it probably went straight to the Russians. What the hell were they thinking? To be fair, I should've known. I didn't Read more [...]

Searching For Sugar Man

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Paul

The Oscar nominations for Best Feature Documentary don't always get a lot of attention unless there's a really high profile movie up for the award, i.e. An Inconvenient Truth. This year isn't really much different. I didn't really know of any docs that came out this year until, first, I heard that two guys that I went to school with (and are kinda my competition in Production Sound in town) worked on The Invisible War, a film about the often ignored problem of rape in the US Army, and second, when Read more [...]

How I Came to Own an iPod Nano for 55 Minutes (Or “Why Everything You Own Will Eventually Suck”): An Essay on Technology

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Paul

It's a sad day when a beloved piece of technology dies. Sometimes it happens suddenly. Despite your best efforts to take care of it and keep it alive as long as possible, these things happen. You can wake up one day and it's gone. The hard drive is corrupt. Your DVD player just got too old and it was its time to go. It's ok, though. You'll get a BluRay to replace it and the hurt will eventually go away. I loved my 160GB iPod Classic. It was silver with a black and yellow stripe down its back that Read more [...]

Fast and Furious 6: As Seen by Bill Simmons

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Paul

Sometimes, you just have to let the masters do their thing. If you don't know him, Bill Simmons is a pop culture and sports writer over at ESPN, but he also has a website of his own called Grantland, where Chuck Klosterman (another excellent writer) collaborates quite often. Check it out. But while you're over there, check out Bill Simmons' review of the new Fast and Furious 6 trailer which premiered during the Super Bowl but got an extended edition just a few days later. It's hard to tell Read more [...]