Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Luke’s Change: An Inside Job
We’ve always known there was something fishy about Star Wars… but we didn’t know until recently that it went this deep.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
What Does Hollywood Have to Do with Jerusalem?
Interesting story on a nun who works to reconcile the medium to the mediator.
Saturday, December 01, 2012
There are only fourteen books worth reading each year
This is one of them.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Why Are Foreign Films So… Foreign?
McSweeney’s feigns interest in the movies we genuinely love.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tree of Life Shooting Locations in Smithville, Texas
If you ever get down to Waco or Austin, drive on down to Smithville where Terence Malick filmed most of the childhood scenes of Tree of Life.
The Movie Theater is Officially Dead
No amount of 3D, popcorn, cathedral-like architecture or any of the other gee-wiz gizmos of modern moviegoing in public will compete with home theater set-up plus an endless source of free content.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
If 2001 Came Out in 2012
Here’s what the trailer would look like if Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 2012 instead of 1968.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Apple’s New iPhone Best Explained by the Movie The Prestige
Christopher Nolan’s 2006 movie The Prestige is the best metaphor for understanding the iPhone’s success.
Thursday, September 06, 2012
You know You’ve Seen Star Wars Too Many Times When…
...this happens to you in church.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
When Search Engine Metrics Get… Awkward
Surely this is not the best keyword search for the Googlebots to be associating with this. But the ad for the movie Ted shows up on the right side of the page pretty much 1 out of 6 times when you go to the first story. This is an ongoing problem in online advertising: the bots can get the demographics right, but the psychographics call for human judgment.
