I’ve decided to write like Arthur C. Clarke
After the lively discussion the other day I’ve decided to start writing like Arthur C. Clarke; herewith the Share:FacebookEmailLinkedInTwitter
View ArticleEpilogue: the final masterstroke detail
After he gets off the phone, Anthony Edwards checks the time on the nearby outdoor clock (above). See the billboard? Share:FacebookEmailLinkedInTwitter
View ArticleGod of War Indie Film
These people made a trailer for a movie based on God of War if it were a Wes Anderson movie. As Cal at Cal’s Canadian Cave of Cool opines, “The guys who made this totally nailed Wes Anderson’s annoying...
View ArticleWhat is 7 Souls?
We’ve just finished our new web campaign for 7 Souls, which you can see here. We’ve found a spoiler-free way to extend the actual book’s story into a different presentational medium. I’d be very...
View ArticleShutter Island
(2010) ** I don’t know what can be done about movies like Shutter Island, because there’s no getting rid of them — they occupy one corner of the horror movie game board as permanently as low-budget...
View ArticleThe Blair Witch Project
(1999) ***** From the moment the “Haxan Films” logo comes onto the screen, I’m hooked—I’m plunged back into an utterly unique cinematic mood; a blend of mundanity and dread, of ugly visual noise and...
View ArticleThe Silence of the Lambs
(1990) ***** Once again I’m going back into previous decades and watching material that, as much as any other reaction, astonishes me with how much time has passed—not just as evidenced by the old cars...
View ArticleKoko’s Earth Control
This is one of those rare artifacts that shows off the particular ideosyncracies of two decades: a sublime 1927 Max Fleischer cartoon called “Koko’s Earth Control” (starring Fleischer’s ubiquitous...
View ArticleMore LEGO STOPMOTION Goodies For Octopunk: Apple Engineer Recreating...
This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated “the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of...
View ArticleBest critic dis ever?
Good critic disses come from many sources (and include famous one-liners by the likes of George Bernard Shaw) but this one is my current favorite. Who wrote it? Who knows — just another anonymous sad...
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