Year: 2006

There’s one shot in Mission: Impossible III that seems to go on forever. It’s Tom Cruise running along a crowded Shanghai street, and the camera tracks him as he runs. And runs. And runs. And runs some more. The shot…

Let’s get the geek joke out of the way: no, it’s not a biography of American recreational mathematician Martin Gardner. (Though that could also be a good movie, especially if it focused on his debunking of psychics and other pseudo-scientific…

My friend Bryan, who lives in the Seattle area, took some film school classes from Christopher Mosio, who worked on Akeelah and the Bee and is credited as 2nd unit director of photography and B camera operator. D and I…

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…

Two things I know I hate are dealing with hardware and dealing with salesmen. You might then, with good reason, ask what the hell I was doing in a furniture store in the first place. Well, this was last Saturday,…

For the last couple of weeks, I have not been getting enough sleep. I should preface this by saying that I’m pretty sure I’ve been running a sleep debt since high school. I remember once staying up all night, and…

A day in the life of Natalie Portman. Brought to you by the same comic geniuses who did Chronic of Narnia. They are, by all reports, the best thing to happen to Saturday Night Live in many a year.