January 2011
10 posts
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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues →
Everyone’s favourite folk band has released the first single from their upcoming album
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Screenwriters: POV Is Key
A few weeks ago I picked up a Boxee Box (which is the best thing on earth), and have started to marathon the entire series of The West Wing. Its a series that undoubtedly can be described as one of the best written shows in television’s history, even though some of the stand-alone episodes can, at times, feel empty of emotional arc. The series is at its best when doing multiple-episode arcs...
“Be bold, only.”
– Danny Boyle
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The Toy Story 3 Divide
At this point I think most people I know have decided that their favourite film of 2010 was either Black Swan or Toy Story 3. Its a pretty telling divide actually, wherein the fans of Toy Story 3 will largely say that Black Swan was their number 2, while Black Swan fans (like me) have Toy Story 3 nowhere on their list.
To be fair, I only got to watching Toy Story 3 last week, and I had largely...
WatchA great video showing the proper use of CG - to build on a scene, rather than create it from scratch. (BTW - Black Swan is the film of 2010)
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Realistic analysis of RED STATE's distro plan... →
Last night Kevin Smith announced he would be distributing his new film, RED STATE, himself. He did this in a pretty ridiculous and self-indulgent way by claiming what he was doing was revolutionary. This, simply put, is untrue. Filmmakers have been four-walling their distro for the last century. Bad Ass Digest’s Devin Faraci puts Smith’s plan into context.
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WIZARD no more.
Long before my teenage mind was seduced by the inane rants of Adbusters, Wizard was the only magazine I would spend any cash on. I haven’t read it in at least 10 years, but the news that its shutting down is actually quite disappointing.
At one point it was the go-to mag for comics readers and in the pre-everycomicbookisindevelopmentasafilm world, its ‘casting call’ column would...
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
– Chuck Close
