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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

– Philip K. Dick; I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (via wordpainting)

Feb 25th

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'Bully' doc loses 'R' rating appeal; Weinstein Co.... →

CTG: I am officially done discussing when the MPAA will finally begin to change, and am now ready for the conversation about what needs to be done to officially eliminate the MPAA altogether and establish a new, legitimate ratings board and system. As Kirby Dick exposed so well in his 2006 documentary, This Film is Not Yet Rated, The MPAA is an archaic, rigid and corrupt group of glorified soccer...

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 22nd

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One Year Down: Some Quick Thoughts

A few days ago marked the one year anniversary of this blog. A few thoughts on my experience here in the Tumblr-verse. - I have really enjoyed blogging on Tumblr. The UI is incredibly user-friendly and the network of artists who occupy this little corner of the web is vast and interesting. - I never thought I would ever be a blogger, but how wrong I was. I immensely enjoy coming on here and...

Feb 21st

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The Oscar Article: A Case of Habit

I honestly considered not doing an Oscar predictions column this year. There are several reasons why: 1) As I previously mentioned here, I was not very inspired by this year’s nominations. They left a lot to be desired, and I am afraid I have grown weary of the entire Oscar process. 2) Unlike years past, I have just been too busy to keep up with the films, and have missed a few too many...

Feb 21st

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Feb 20th

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The Right Way to End a Film

directingfilm: I wrote a post on my favorite endings in cinema a couple of weeks ago. The ending is the last chance we get to say something to the audience. In the future of socially-integrated film, it will be our last chance to inspire conversation online. It’s terribly important. I regularly do script coverage for different directors and production companies in Chicago. One such...

Feb 13th

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Feb 10th

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Feb 9th

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Feb 9th

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PEOPLE ARE STRANGE: MARTIN.

almost-kael: Don’t get me started on vampire films today. They suck. Perhaps it is because I read and saw Interview With The Vampire at the age of thirteen or that as an even younger child I repeatedly saw the trailer of Coppola’s Dracula and that they led me to decide that vampires had to be as beautiful, mesmerizing, fascinating as Lestat but also as lethal , powerful and horrific...

Feb 8th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 3rd

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Feb 2nd

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The Unrecognized & Overlooked: Entry #9 – ‘The...

As I sit back and sift through the detritus that is our broken political system; watching as both sides of the aisle share barbs and tear each other down, I am reminded of The Contender, a fantastic political thriller that focused more on characters and moral issues then on action or contrivances. A harsh and poignantly written political drama anchored by the ferocious performance of Joan Allen,...

Feb 2nd

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Apple releases updated Final Cut Pro X, brings...

By Tim Stevens (via Engagdet) The X version of Final Cut Pro was supposed to be all things to all people — easier and more power for the serious amateurs and yet refreshing and comprehensive for the pros. In reality it seemed that neither camp quite saw it that way, but Apple has at least been listening. Today the company has announced version 10.0.3, which finally adds the one feature...

Jan 31st

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Jan 31st

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Jan 31st

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Jan 30th

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Jan 30th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 24th

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“10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. “That’s not an abuse of power,...”

– Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.” (via wilwheaton)

Jan 24th

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Jan 24th

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Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

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Jan 19th

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Jan 18th

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Why The Verge and Vox Media are opposed to SOPA →

nerdology: I didn’t intend this to be SOPA day, it just kind of happened. You should read the statement by Vox Media. The whole thing. Copyright law in the United States hasn’t been seriously rethought since 1998 — before Google was really even a company, let alone before social networks like Twitter and Facebook and services like YouTube built empires out of regular people sharing content...

Jan 18th

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Jan 18th

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Jan 16th

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Jan 13th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 11th

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“This new film is the culmination of years of extraordinary persistence by the documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, whose work freed the three men. So flawed was the evidence against the WM3 that at the end the state decided to avoid a court hearing on their appeal by offering this unique deal: They could go free and could even state their innocence if they would sign an...

Jan 11th

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