Month: April 2006

Another great little movie: Brick, described on the Aquarius Theatre‘s marquee as “Sam Spade in school.” As the kids say, tru dat. Maybe high school wasn’t actually a film noir, but I tell you, sometimes it sure as hell felt…

Go read Wired 14.05: The Ressurection of Al Gore. And, when it opens on May 24th, go see An Inconvenient Truth. It’s based on a talk that I saw Gore present earlier this month, and which he’s been touring around…

Here’s the fascinating story of how the THX trailer sound (officially called “Deep Note”– thank you, sexually frustrated audio engineers) came to be: TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 3: The THX Sound As Andy Moorer says in the introduction to the…

Everything John Rogers says about this movie is true. Go see it. Now.It’s easy for satire to go wrong, but Smoking gets it right. Even with all the voiceovers, subtitles, and other glamours, it never goes too over-the-top, never strays…