Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts, and The Inconvenient Truth (3)

7/15/10 •

I always try to stay aware of what new movies are coming out. It’s a great way to see new trends, new approaches, and shifts within the film business. I’m also a huge fan of movie trailers.
A great trailer site is trailers.apple.com. On it I recently came across one for THE OXFORD MURDERS [...]

Ethernet cables for everyone! (0)

7/12/10 •

I vividly remember an event at a local Silvercity Movie theater that surprised and disheartened me. I had gone to see the big, explosive THE INCREDIBLE HULK (Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Tim Roth) and was particularly interested in it as much of it had been shot in Hamilton and Toronto Ontario. [...]

“You can’t handle the truth!” (3)

7/05/10 •

It’s one of the all-time great movie lines. Tom Cruise’s prim and naive character Lt. Kaffee is demanding answers from Jack Nicholson’s Col. Jessep. Kaffee yells: “I want the truth!” Jessep growls back: “You can’t handle the truth!”
The nature of this argument from A FEW GOOD MEN is even more relevant today.
Truth [...]

BIZARRO WORLD – Is anyone paying attention? (3)

6/14/10 •

In DC comics‘ bizarro world, everything is the opposite of what it should be. Bizarro Acquaman couldn’t swim. Green Lantern had no power from his powerless ring. In the popular Seinfeld series, there was an episode where the cast discovered a bizarro Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer. They were all the exact opposite (nice, kind, [...]

Assumed guilty and forget about proving innocence! (3)

6/02/10 •

Cloud Ten Pictures’ Executive Director/Producer André van Heerden’s letter to 680 News:

Hello,
I listen to 680 News every day.
Today I was shocked and saddened by your coverage of the incident involving Israeli commandos and the ship heading to Gaza.
You repeatedly used phrases like: “Israeli attack on aid ship”. “Israel’s deadly raid of humanitarian ship.”
Then [...]