I don't know why it never struck me before, but college book stores are awesome. Not for any other reason except that they are chosen by professors. Class books are chosen by people who love their field of work and who want other people to be interested in it. When I was buying a couple of my books, I started browsing other sections. There were ( Read more... )

This is a short documentary I found today about the biggest record collection in the world. If it's not enough that the story is very interesting, it is also extremely well-made. I'm looking forward to seeing more from whoever this Sean Dunne is.

The documentary can be found here:http://www.

I found this on Roger Ebert's website. I rarely laugh this hard. A reader sent this in to him ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have to stop myself from going to message boards, but I can't always help it either. I want to know more about a movie, or some random trivia, then I can usually find that on message boards ( Read more... )

I don't remember if I wrote about this at the time, but I saw a movie a month or two ago called The Fall directed by Tarsem, who had previously done The Cell and a number of commercials ( Read more... )

More and more I feel like a nuisance around the other members of the behind-the-scenes crew ( Read more... )

One thing that I like about superhero films as opposed to the comics is--for lack of a better phrase--term limits. Have you seen how long some of these comic book series go? Some of them have been going on for 70 years or more. What can you really do to fill up space in that time period? Is there really a need to bring back the same recycled ( Read more... )

I came to a realization the other day ( Read more... )

The last day of shooting was Tuesday. We had aimed to film the whole thing in 19 days, which is apparently a nearly impossible task for most movies. We only had to add one day to the shoot. So we shot in 20 days, which is also nearly impossible. We had very few people on set for the last day.. We had a big chunk of regular crew getting some shots ( Read more... )

One of the best days of this whole affair, by far ( Read more... )