See what I did there? Clever, innit! What? Alright, alright! No need to be rude about it! Jeez – switch to decaf.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah – this hoo-haa about Christian Bale losing his rag with a DoP on the set of Terminator: Salvation. What a douche! To put it in his own words, [...]
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A Dark Day for The Dark Knight
Mountains of Madness
I break blog silence to quickly mention the currently breaking news story that’s currently top of the headlines on the BBC news site about “Floods strand[ing] hundreds of runners“. Quick summary: the Original Mountain Marathon is being held in the Lake District this weekend but torrential rain and extreme flooding have meant that the event [...]
Hasta La Vista, Stan Winston
Just heard about the passing away of Stan Winston and I’m gutted.
Stan Winston was responsible for a lot of the iconic creatures of the last 30 years: he designed the aliens for Cameron’s Aliens, the Terminator, the Predator, the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar (Jurassic Park) and did the makeup effects for Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns [...]
Too new to be profitable
I’m sorry – I said I wouldn’t post that much more about the Writers Strike but, frankly, it stirs me up no end. So read it, don’t read it. I don’t care – it’s on the internet so it’s only for promotional purposes anyway.
The title of this post covers pretty much how Michael [...]
From the mouths of liars
More Writers Strike – I’m sorry, but this video is too outrageous not to share.
Quick recap: the AMPTP (which stands for Fucking Greedy Bastard Megacorporations*) does not want to pay writers residuals for media that is distributed over the internet. There argument is that the internet is too new and that they [...]
Megabux Corps vs WGA
Still don’t get what the WGA strike is all about? Tim Kazurinsky explains it on WGN News:
Pencils Down
You may have noticed over there ( –> ) that there’s a little badge I’ve put up. Good innit! Took me all fucking morning to make because I am that shit hot with graphics software. I digress.
The Writers Guild of America are on strike. You may have heard about this in [...]
Breathless
The other day, driving home from work, I had an idea. An invention idea. The sort of idea you’d go on public television with and propose it to a bunch of rich business types who will then offer to lend you money in return for a share of the profits or something.
The idea [...]
Gone Benny Gone
Another in the “I’m not sure what I think about this” series.
Ben Affleck’s directorial debut is a film called “Gone Baby Gone” and is based on a Dennis Lehane novel of the same name. The film has just been premiered at the Deauville Film Festival is due to be released in the [...]
