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Luke’s Change: An Inside Job

2013-03-19T06:25:00Z

We’ve always known there was something fishy about Star Wars… but we didn’t know until recently that it went this deep.

What Does Hollywood Have to Do with Jerusalem?

2013-01-29T14:05:00Z

Interesting story on a nun who works to reconcile the medium to the mediator.

There are only fourteen books worth reading each year

2012-12-01T07:15:01Z

This is one of them.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

2012-10-31T16:47:01Z

Davy Jones administers the trade in the souls of men.

Read this article.

Why Are Foreign Films So… Foreign?

2012-10-30T03:58:00Z

McSweeney’s feigns interest in the movies we genuinely love.

Tree of Life Shooting Locations in Smithville, Texas

2012-10-26T03:42:00Z

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

2012-10-26T03:39:00Z

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.

If 2001 Came Out in 2012

2012-09-18T04:10:01Z

Here’s what the trailer would look like if Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 2012 instead of 1968.

Apple’s New iPhone Best Explained by the Movie The Prestige

2012-09-13T18:18:00Z

Christopher Nolan’s 2006 movie The Prestige is the best metaphor for understanding the iPhone’s success.

You know You’ve Seen Star Wars Too Many Times When…

2012-09-06T13:18:01Z

...this happens to you in church.

When Search Engine Metrics Get… Awkward

2012-06-16T12:42:00Z

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.

The Cinema IS the New Cathedral

2012-06-10T01:36:01Z

We’ve said this before, but here’s another piece of compelling piece of evidence in the long list of associations between cinema and cathedral, or in this case, drive-in movie theater and megachurch.

The Truman Show as DSM V Category

2012-06-02T15:14:00Z

1998: The Truman Show.
2000: Life, The Movie.
2012: The Truman Show Delusion: Psychosis in the Global Village
Conclusions: “Cultural studies of delusion have important contributions to make to the cognitive theory of delusion.”
Rewind to March, 1969: “If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them. But if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.”

When You Have to Run and Pee During the Film

2012-05-31T19:04:00Z

Yeah, now there’s an app for that, to tell you what you missed.

True Grit and Canada

2012-05-16T16:26:00Z

Remember when we said that “True Grit is the latest film to convincingly demonstrate that the fate of humanity lies in the hands of 14-year old homeschooled girls?” Here’s further proof, now with 12-year old girls helping out as well.