Friday, September 19, 2014

4th Wall

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Ive always been iffy about my feelings towards breaking the 4th wall. Breaking the 4th wall is when a character in a film talks directly ...

Classic literature on film

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So my last post on here was about book to film adaptations.  I mostly discussed the young adult genre and deliberated whether or not such a...

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope: On the Road Again

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Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have been everywhere.  From Bali to Morocco, Rio, Singapore, and even Utopia, they find romance and adventure.  Tho...

Living Down Lost

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IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LOST PLEASE GO WATCH IT NOW INSTEAD OF READING THIS BLOG. (SPOILERS AHEAD) In 2004 JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof...

Is Technology a Curse?

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As each year goes by, several new products in technology are developed. Technology is what now drives our society. Everyone is alw...

Emmanuel Lubezki and Children of Men

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The first time watching Children of Men, I was so struck by the visual language that you can get from the camera movements in this film. Una...

The L Word and Media as Culture

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There are few shows made today that can capture and define a community as much as The L Word did for the lesbian community. Created in 2004...

The Fun Left in Hollywood

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Hollywood has always been known as the cutthroat heart to the American film industry, usually filled with professionals and never much room ...

Cinematic Hypnosis and the films of Weerasethakul

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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers is a Thai director named Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The name's a mouthful for sure, but he go...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

In Praise of Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

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"An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Why Anime Shows Can't be Live Action Films (at least in the U.S)

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Reading an earlier blog post about books turning into movies inspired me to write about anime shows turning into live action films, and why...