Honestly, I just wanted to be sure everyone watched the video below. It’s the first editing I’ve done since film school, and while my free software isn’t especially precise, I think the sense of narrative flow is there.

Anyhow, new articles for you today…

…there’s a presidential primary coming up, and nowhere in any media outlets have [...]

My somewhat predictable review of MEET THE SPARTANS is now online.

I have a little feature up on a locally made direct-to-DVD flick.

Recently released on DVD by Vanguard Cinema—sales figures haven’t been released yet, but producer Sara Parrell says she’s been promised a report at the end of the month—Stupid Teenagers was a project several years in the making, beginning when Parrell, Smith and Meredith found [...]

The other night, I watched a movie called When the Wind Blows. It was a movie I’d been afraid to see for 25 years. That may sound surprising on the surface, especially if you were to come across it on TV — it’s a cartoon about two old people and the way in which they [...]

I don’t feel like I have much useful to say about Heath Ledger’s death, besides “what a damn shame,” but if anyone else feels like it, do so in comments below.

Brad at Bloody Disgusting likes it, though his review would imply that it’s all due to the substitute director, which I doubt.

…in September. And it costs a hundred bucks.

On the plus-side, it has 70 points of articulation (a toy nerd term that means “joints”) and “life-like” detail.

No pictures yet. But if you want it to truly recapture the movie experience when you buy it, make sure to only look at the toy after you’ve downed enough [...]