For a long time, the cheapest place to shoot a movie was in Canada, often in Vancouver. Virtually every movie that was supposed to take place in New York City would be comprised of a few aerial shots of Manhattan and then any external scenes would be shot in close enough where you couldn’t identify […]
Archive for November, 2009
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Ninja Assassin
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
The big-budget version of an exploitation movie is fool’s gold. Sure, the filmmaker who could have used some more money to make his action sequences more convincing or get more than one take of any given shot is a worthy cause. But there’s scrappy charm in low-budget films and you forgive the mistakes as part […]
The Road
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
During my interview with Shadow Billionaire director Alexis Spraic, she mentioned that she didn’t like the way that making documentaries had become a “competition about who can make the saddest film.” This line of thinking isn’t just limited to documentaries, indeed, many a fiction film falls into the trap of trying to bum out the […]
The Missing Person
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
It’s a shame that Hollywood is only interested in making origin films for the heroes of comic book films. Such is the case with the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Frankly, the heroes tend to be dull. And so, while there are some aberrations—such as with Lexi Alexander’s campy, silly, and ridiculously entertaining and colorful Punisher: […]
New Updates
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
In the past few weeks, I’ve been working on several articles for other sites. But also on finally being accepted to be part of the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. You can see my profile here. You may notice that A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity is not the only outlet listed, as I’m also on Examiner.com, OutinAmerica.com, […]
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Monday, November 9th, 2009
No matter what you think of Saw as a film, it’s hard to deny that the guys who made it, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, are geniuses. Not that they’re all that talented, as a feature film Saw is derivative, badly acted, and needlessly convoluted. What differentiates Wan and Whannell from standard exploitation filmmakers (torture […]
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Ninja Assassin
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
The big-budget version of an exploitation movie is fool’s gold. Sure, the filmmaker who could have used some more money to make his action sequences more convincing or get more than one take of any given shot is a worthy cause. But there’s scrappy charm in low-budget films and you forgive the mistakes as part […]
The big-budget version of an exploitation movie is fool’s gold. Sure, the filmmaker who could have used some more money to make his action sequences more convincing or get more than one take of any given shot is a worthy cause. But there’s scrappy charm in low-budget films and you forgive the mistakes as part […]
The Road
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
During my interview with Shadow Billionaire director Alexis Spraic, she mentioned that she didn’t like the way that making documentaries had become a “competition about who can make the saddest film.” This line of thinking isn’t just limited to documentaries, indeed, many a fiction film falls into the trap of trying to bum out the […]
During my interview with Shadow Billionaire director Alexis Spraic, she mentioned that she didn’t like the way that making documentaries had become a “competition about who can make the saddest film.” This line of thinking isn’t just limited to documentaries, indeed, many a fiction film falls into the trap of trying to bum out the […]
The Missing Person
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
It’s a shame that Hollywood is only interested in making origin films for the heroes of comic book films. Such is the case with the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Frankly, the heroes tend to be dull. And so, while there are some aberrations—such as with Lexi Alexander’s campy, silly, and ridiculously entertaining and colorful Punisher: […]
It’s a shame that Hollywood is only interested in making origin films for the heroes of comic book films. Such is the case with the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Frankly, the heroes tend to be dull. And so, while there are some aberrations—such as with Lexi Alexander’s campy, silly, and ridiculously entertaining and colorful Punisher: […]
New Updates
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
In the past few weeks, I’ve been working on several articles for other sites. But also on finally being accepted to be part of the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. You can see my profile here. You may notice that A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity is not the only outlet listed, as I’m also on Examiner.com, OutinAmerica.com, […]
In the past few weeks, I’ve been working on several articles for other sites. But also on finally being accepted to be part of the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. You can see my profile here. You may notice that A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity is not the only outlet listed, as I’m also on Examiner.com, OutinAmerica.com, […]
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Monday, November 9th, 2009
No matter what you think of Saw as a film, it’s hard to deny that the guys who made it, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, are geniuses. Not that they’re all that talented, as a feature film Saw is derivative, badly acted, and needlessly convoluted. What differentiates Wan and Whannell from standard exploitation filmmakers (torture […]
No matter what you think of Saw as a film, it’s hard to deny that the guys who made it, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, are geniuses. Not that they’re all that talented, as a feature film Saw is derivative, badly acted, and needlessly convoluted. What differentiates Wan and Whannell from standard exploitation filmmakers (torture […]