When the CD format first came out I joked about the need to remaster Yoko Ono albums so you could hear every noise she made in perfect digital clarity. When DVD came out I joked about movies like Mannequin not really benefitting from the higher quality transfer ( Read more... )

Just four years ago I had seen 2/3 of the films in the IMDB worst 100. Looking over the current list ... I have seen only 24 of these turkeys! My taste is improving, or films are getting worse. Actually, films are just getting worse ( Read more... )

Here's a little quiz for film fans, type wonks, and perhaps a few other people. Each letter in a message has been pulled from a different movie poster. Your job is to identify the films.

(Fascinating how many of these letters were immediately identifiable.)

Poster Letters

First, a pic of Finn and Ro on the edge of the Grand Canyon:

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Pixar has a long history of re-using models and textures from older productions. Much as 3D animators all used a teapot as a standard reference object, Pixar used the bouncy ball from Luxo Jr. everywhere they needed extra items to fill out a scene. In "Toy Story" we see a bookshelf with titles from every Pixar short. Later on Pixar even bagan to ( Read more... )

News has begun to percolate throughout the web that Stan Winston has died. If you don't know the name then you know his many faces: The Terminator, The Thing, Predator, The Alien Queen, all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and Iron Man's armor in the new movie ( Read more... )

The Summer is slipping away quickly, but I have begun to over-schedule to defend against the randomly disappearing days. Some weeks go by without registering on my time keeping radar. One morning I notice it's Monday, so I hurry down to start work. I look up, and it's 2pm - and time for a late lunch. I look up again and it's Thursday night. I often ( Read more... )

"Top 10 Cheeziest Movies You Secretly Love to Watch"

For the edification of those with a taste for the cinema - a list of ten fillums which the author finds he is always willing to watch, but which are generally considered to be of poor quality. Thus these films are generally viewed guiltily, and often in a darkened room.

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Around the office it was always called that. "Have you seen the gay cowboy movie?" people would ask over lunch. This was added to the canon of 'replacement' movie titles along side such gems as ( Read more... )

Cinema is my religion. For a secular fella like me it's really the only place I can gather with a bunch of like-minded people and share a meaningful experience together. Movies reflect our society's values. We audience members are connected together by our feelings, even if we don't know each other. We share dreams on that big screen in away we ( Read more... )