Hollywood Bokeh

Recently, we’ve begun to notice a trend…or ten: most of the Hollywood movie news we’re reporting typically follows a repeating theme. And by far the two most prevalent themes in recent months have been Tinsletown’s predilection for regurgitating everything in sight, i.e. old TV shows, movies, etc (you know what we’re [...]

I’ve had it. I’ve had it with the weak-ass vampires of ‘Twilight’, True Blood, and Interview with a Vampire.I remember when vampires used to be freaking scary. Lugosi, Lee. Back then, they’d just as soon rip your throat open and chew on your arteries as…um, turn into a bat and sh*t on your head. Nowadays, cinematic v [...]

Last Friday marked the arrival of Red Cliff (read our review here) the new war epic by Chinese action-meister John Woo. But this wasn’t the same version that graced Asian theaters prior to its international release: In its home country, Red Cliff was released as two films, the first in mid-2008; the second in early 2 [...]

Seems like every film you go see these days at the MEGAMOVIEPLEX has a number in the title. METAL-MORPHO-ROBO-BASHERS VI, HACKSLASHSTAB  IV, RADIOACTIVE CARIBOU MAN 12.5…and so on. The word franchise is as telling as any about the present state of filmmaking. In the past the word franchise used to be synonymous with [...]

“Oh, you can’t leave yet!… You haven’t seen our vacation videos, the ones your Dad and I took when we went to Cabo San Lucas last year! Let me just pop it in…!”Kill me now.Take that TV remote and beat me until yellow fluid seeps from my ears, it would be less painful than enduring “just a few minutes” of my parents [...]

Film and TV is a unique medium in that it is usually comprised of a combination of disciplines: Literature, photography, design, theater and music, just to name a few. All these aspects work in tandem in service to the larger picture to provide an all-encompassing artistic experience. Music, like any other artform has [...]

I want to say straight off the top that I have not yet seen G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. And for all I know, it may be stupendously phenomenal. Or just phenomenal. Or not completely suck. Which would be a triumph in and of itself for this sort of film. However, it’s typically a bad sign when studios refuse to screen up [...]

Remember the old Road Runner cartoons? The ones where the crafty, but ultimately dim-witted, Wile E. Coyote would order some improbable ACME contraption in the hopes of catching the faster, and ultimately smarter, road runner? In almost every episode the coyote would be sliced, diced, squashed, dismembered — or other [...]