Due to complaints, I’m removing this post — but suffice it to say that Expelled is a documentary that will not see the light of day in the Oscar race. I will post this and other items relating to it on my personal site, sashastone.com. However, if a reader threatens me or anyone who posts any information to this site with a potential loss of readership due...
Monthly Archives: March 2008
You don’t have to look that hard for really great blogs on the net.¬† One of the most popular think-sites, Kottke.org, offers up this snippet from writer Michael Chabon about why superhero costumes don’t work: This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Og0lOCcE[/youtube] Spring is in the air and we are nearing the first phase of Oscar watching, when the Cannes Film Fest rolls out. But April brings some interesting pics and we’ll shine a light on them in hopes of making Spring a slightly more interesting time of the year for awards watching. April’s Must Sees: Forbidden...
In honor of Drillbit Taylor, Cinematical names the ten best on-screen bullies: 1. Biff Tannen, Back to the Future 2. Johnny Lawrence, The Karate Kid 3. Fred O’Bannion, Dazed and Confused (inspired choice) 4. John Bender, The Breakfast Club 5. Scut Farkus, A Christmas Story 6. Regina George, Mean Girls 7. Shared choices in The Goonies, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,...
Immigration. Yes, here in Los Angeles nothing gets right wing talk radio all fired up like immigration. Now, a director for a film that is getting zero play here on the web, or anywhere else (maybe because snooty critics panned it), gets an interview with the AP. Reuters talks to Patricia Riggen about her film, Under the Same Moon: “It was my first full-length feature....
