Dedicated readers will recall my displeasure with the overly-cute “Be Kind, Rewind“. The central gimmick of that film was low-budget re-creations of big-budget Hollywood spectacle, which falls flat because using a big budget to simulate a small budget recreation of a blockbuster is dishonest – the cinematic equivalent of trust-fund hipsters slumming it in deliberately [...]
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Crowd-Sourced Star Wars
January 21st, 2012 · No Comments
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Q & A with Brownmark Films “What What (In The Butt)”
May 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The creators of the internet phenomenon “What What (In The Butt)” speak out about being parodied by South Park and the future of internet video.
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Death Of A Fucking Salesman
March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Have you ever felt the need to watch Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross, but only had three minutes? Ever wonder what it would look like if you boiled it down to just the profanity? The amazing thing is, it works, in an elliptical-poetic sort of way. Mamet’s dialogue has a distinctive rhythm, and I respect it [...]
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