I recently made a list of what I think to be some of his best or undervalued scores. So here we go! 1) For me, “Danger:Diabolik” is number one. Sad story that the Masters got destroyed in a fire and (more…)
Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 speech from “The Greatest Dictator” is prescient, brutally self-aware, and more relevant than ever.
Again… this is 80 years old, this year of 2020. —— I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone (more…)
Has reality ever started unraveling so fast, you can barely keep up, let alone survive? Well, in these movies, that’s how the “rubber reality” genre works!
edit: this “supergenre”, if that exists, could simply be “this is a list of movies you shouldn’t know anything about prior to watching, aside maybe from their genre”. I recently set out to identify (more…)
My Top 25 “Not Christmas Movies” but totally Christmas / Holiday Movies [updated Dec 2018]
25. A Simple Plan 24. Jack Frost 23. Gary Busey as the Gingerbread Man 22. Mean Girls 21. Edward Scissorhands 20. Bad Santa 19. Eyes Wide Shut 18. The Family Man (absurd, but Nic Cage) 17. (more…)
Intellectual Property, Safe Bets, & Addiction to Nostalgia Porn
I know studios need to make their tentpoles that sustain them, and they take incredibly safe bets making relatively benign or saccarin films that get the ticket sales, but don’t move film or cinema forward (more…)
Bladerunner and Alien tie in… they’re in the same universe.
ttp://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10yegw/holy_shit_prometheus_and_blade_runner_tie_in/ pic below. more info at this link, with best dissection of this: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/will-prometheus-create-a-shared-universe-between-alien–and-blade–runner Also, (more…)
Practical vs CGI / Digital effects thoughts, after watching the Deadpool Visual Effects Breakdown.
Let’s talk practical effects and digital effects… as effects, that tell a story. I am really interested in how you feel about the two, where you fall, if suspension of disbelief is still intact for you….. Here’s (more…)
There is, essentially, a 3rd Ghostbusters film with the original cast members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters:_The_Video_Game Many of the principal cast members from the films were involved in the game’s production. Each of the actors who portrayed the Ghostbusters (more…)
Another Universe But For A Moment: The Alchemist’s Letter
Enjoy this marvelous, wonderful short… 4 mins 18 seconds or so. The Alchemist's Letter from Carlos Stevens on Vimeo.
Fictional Evil Companies and a few Non-Fiction Websites, as well as Non-fictional Fictional websites
Trask Industries is beautiful http://www.trask-industries.com/#/home Weyland Industries http://www.weylandindustries.com/ Omni Consumer Products Corporation – made a faux real store, I think? http://www.omniconsumerproductscorporation.com/ Cyberdyne (more…)