My mother bought something on eBay recently and it was without a doubt her greatest technological achievement to date. I can’t help but feel that proportionally that is equal to me only joining Twitter this past week. So forgive me if I sound like a guy that just discovered the wheel but this shit is fascinating and new. I created my account on the day of Michael Jackson’s funeral which I guess would be like aliens first experience with humans taking place at Woodstock. Read more »
Here’s a trailer for a new film starring Patton Oswalt and directed by once Onion editor and screenwriter of the The Wrestler, Robert D. Siegel. It looks fantastic and I’m very excited to see how it turns out. Here’s a review from this year’s Sundance film festival.
Movies You Should Netflix: Once
By Ryan – HodgeBlodge Romantic
If you’ve heard of the movie Once it is probably because it won the Oscar for Best Song. As you may remember there were two musicians that accepted the award—one, an Irish man, accepted first; the other, a Czech woman, was kept from giving her acceptance speech by the orchestra. Jon Stewart, possibly to keep his reign as host going a little longer, brought the young woman back out to give her speech. It was just one of those memorable Oscar moments that stuck with me in passing until recently when I finally got around to seeing the movie. Upon seeing it I realized that Jon should have also brought out the writer/director, the producer, the other band members, and the Irish man again just for good measure because the movie needs so much more recognition than just that one extra speech. Read more »
Miles: So Public Enemies… Katie: So yeah – hated it. Miles: (laughs). That’s all, folks Katie: How do you take a fascinating story and turn it into a 3-hour long lame-fest? Just ask Mann. He shouldn’t have directed it – I thought all of his shots were wrong. Miles: I think you may be right, and I say that with reservations, because I don’t think the movie is terrible, but it is boring without a doubt. Katie: Meh. Honestly the only thing I was impressed by was the sound editing during the gun fights, which were incredible. The sound was perfect. Miles: The thing is, it’s almost a carbon copy of Miami Vice in that it’s shot in the same style, has long stretches of uninteresting, unenlightening character moments and then suddenly bursts forth with some interesting action beats. Beyond that, there’s not much that you can’t glean from the trailer. All of the best lines are there and you’re certainly not going to learn anything about Dillinger or Pervis. Especially Pervis… Read more »
By Ryan –HodgeBlodge Lightweight Champion of the Globe
Recently in a comments-section conversation Miles (very correctly) pointed out that Indie movies are one of the last bastions of quality cinema. The problem with this of course is that the independence that makes them great, also makes them hard-to-hear about. So when someone sees a strong low-budget film, they have a moral obligation to share it with as many people as possible. Enter Adam Corolla’s The Hammer.
I put Corolla’s name in front of it for the same reason that Coppola put Mario Puzo’s name in front of The Godfather— this is their story, and the director is simply overseeing the telling of that story. This is not meant to compare The Hammer with The Godfather,but is simply my way of saying that The Hammer is practically an autobiography of Corolla’s path not taken—if he never got into radio (read: met Jimmy Kimmel), this is what his life would have been. If you’ve ever listened to him in any of his mediums, you know that Corolla was a boxer when he was young, a carpenter when he was older, and a smartass the whole time. Jerry Ferro (Corolla’s on-screen alter ego) is just that, except that he never left carpentry and the smartass-streak has caused a whole heap of problems. He just turned 40, and through an unusual series of events he gets offered a chance to box in the US Olympic Trials—this would seem weird if Corolla didn’t make it seem so believable with his actual boxing skill and eventually the movie answers the questions about ultimately why he got the offer. Read more »
As many of you may know, I’m scared of a lot of things. All of them make perfect sense to me, but some people contend that I am being a little unreasonable when I cautiously turn each corner. Well this morning I added one more thing to my list of worries: the effects of viral marketing on my natural instincts.
“Huh?” you seem to say – let me explain. I was getting ready in the bathroom today when I started to think about a YouTube video I was sent the other day. It was of a creature that was found in a North Carolina sewer.
My immediate reaction was that it was a promotional video for a new Blob remake – that’s what scares me. What if that SHIT is real?! It’s a farther reaching, louder shouting boy crying wolf, and we may all die because of it. That sewer monster could be in our drains right now, but we are all too busy laughing or investigating upcoming movies to care. We could die people!
Now that I think about it, there’s also gnomes and witches to worry about! Your natural reaction should be RUN. RUN from this Blob monster that oozes before you. RUN!
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Recently in a comments-section conversation Miles (very correctly) pointed out that Indie movies are one of the last bastions of quality cinema. The problem with this of course is that the independence that makes them great, also makes them hard-to-hear about. So when someone sees a strong low-budget film, they have a moral obligation to share it with as many people as possible. Enter Adam Corolla’s The Hammer.
Thoughts from Aaron
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