Don’t you think that should be the title? I mean Betty..er..Bertie…er…Betty is one irate lady. Anyway….Second season has started and is such a welcome oasis in the dry depths of the summer TV months. For my part, I actually only watched the first season a week or two ago when I realized it was free … Continue reading
Whenever I lecture at college campuses (the best way for a man my age to get scratch & strange), film students all ask me the same thing: how do you make a good movie? I always give them the same answer because it is simply the best non-lying answer I know. To make a good … Continue reading
Anticipation can be a dangerous thing in the movie business. Especially when it appears as if everything is so perfectly aligned, success seems like a sure thing. For it is at that moment that the proverbial house of cards begins to collapse. This past weekend saw the Comic-Con hit a fever pitch of excitement. Genre … Continue reading
A college sound design class project, a re-sound mixing of Jurassic Park, from Renn Brown.
Life is short, what can I say. On the heels of another earthquake here in southern California, I am again reminded to increase my productivity, before all this slides off into the sea. Today I’ll be writing about a movie I’ve been meaning to write about for a few days, a movie that … Continue reading
I tend to not pay attention to Sundance as it happens. It hurts too much, knowing I can’t be there. I’ve never been, but I would love to. So, the only film I’d really heard about coming out of Park City was The Wackness and some movie about a Cuban playing baseball, or something like … Continue reading
I suppose if you’ve grown up in Los Angeles or New York, you’re quite used to seeing your neck of the woods depicted in film and television. This probably extends to the people of any major American city, Chicago, Seattle and so on. Perhaps you’ve even laughed at shoddy stand ins, like a street in … Continue reading
Last night at the Silent Movie Theatre they showed Story of Ricky. They showed the trailer for it a couple weeks back and I decided I was definitely going to have to return to see this rarely-screened Hong Kong kung fu movie from 1991. Having seen it, I have four immediate thoughts: 1. … Continue reading
Saturday is always the jam packed day here at Comic-Con. It is purposely loaded with programs and shows due to the enormous crowds that can make the Saturday schedule. So in knowing this little tidbit, my brother and I made sure we arrived early enough to get ready for our day at Hall H. … Continue reading
A few months ago I wrote an article on remakes of Kurosawa films. Not famous Western efforts like The Magnificent Seven or The Outrage, but rather attempts by the Japanese themselves over the years. Well there was one project that I had no idea of at the time I wrote that piece, one so strange … Continue reading