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5 Great Cinematic Moments of the Bass Coming In (shoutout to 50PageMcGee)
I mention 50 because, until Octopunk’s Tron Legacy post a week ago, I had no idea that anyone on Horrorthon geeked out on movie music even more than me (since I’ve been known to get into discussing...
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UPDATE: Great Cinematic Moments of the Bass Coming In (now you can WATCH them!)
If you kids are done syllable-counting, I want to mention that I uploaded clips of some of the aforementioned great bass-coming-in moments I posted about early this morning. Click here to watch clips...
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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
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Epilogue: 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
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God 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...
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What 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...
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Shutter 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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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Koko’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...
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Oscar Goldman’s desk?
After years of fruitless searching I think I’ve found images of Oscar Goldman’s desk (from The Six Million Dollar Man). When I was a kid, I considered this to be the El Dorado of desks. The only...
View Article2012 predictions
I’m just curious what everyone thinks. Here’s my take: Sherlock (Season 2)Already seen it (all three episodes): it’s fantastic!Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace 3DI’m more partial to the prequel...
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The new iBooks and education
[So I had just finished posting the following comment on a technology website:] Maybe I’m in the minority but I find this whole development [Apple’s new iBooks textbook technology] very disquieting. I...
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You can’t see the actor
Minor cinematic observation: some of the best directors have used this really great counterintuitve technique at extremely dramatic moments in their movies. The protagonist is at an absolutely...
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The Zone
Okay, let’s get into it. Here are my top ten (links are to Wikipedia pages, which have spoilers): “The Four of Us Are Dying” Not especially scary (as the Zone goes) but this one has incredible mood...
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Elizabeth Drew in NYRB
Elizabeth Drew has a new piece in the New York Review of Books about Romney and the election, which deviates pretty far into the “Greenwaldian” zone of near-existential dread that used to be the...
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Watchmen prequels
So everyone’s up in arms and conflicted (including Jonathan Lethem) about DC Comics’ plans to release various Watchmen prequels. Alan Moore told the New York Times that the idea is “completely...
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