You may be getting the impression that all I do with my free time is surf YouTube looking for videos. That would not be entirely incorrect, though I also, you know, download music and watch actual videos on my actual DVD player. Anyhow, the above is a well-executed bit of slash video featuring Jonathan Rhys […]
While I have plenty of issues with the MPAA’s ratings system, I’m still a bit sad that Jack Valenti has died at 85. Valenti was part of the LBJ powerset, and he instituted the current Motion Picture Association of America rating system. This system, although not overtly censorship, has resulted in some pretty troubling self […]
I just learned that a piece of film music from Blow Out, the Brian De Palma tribute ot Blow Up is used in Death Proof, Tarantino’s half of Grindhouse. The composer, Pino Domaggio, worked on a number of De Palma pictures, including Body Double, Carrie and Dressed to Kill. The work Domaggio did for these […]
I watched Hustle and Flow last night, and the quality of that film somehow doubled the disappointment I felt when watching Black Snake Moan. I didn’t exactly expect Black Snake Moan to be, you know, good, but I thought I could be some sort of interesting post-exploitation thing. It was not. Watching Hustle really drove […]
The above is a video I have cited as an example of a pre-internet viral video. This brief news report on what happened when a dead whale was blasted as a means of removing it from a public beach has, for years, circulated offline via video and rumor. Now, in the era of digital, it’s […]