February 2012
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I Melt With You Shows Men as the Ultimate Worst...
If you were ever curious as to what The Hangover would look like without an ounce of comedy applied, look no further than the most ludicrous release of 2012, I Melt With You. The title makes about as much sense as the film itself, which is advertised as a buddying thriller, but fails to capture the thriller genre, or any thrills at all. The dizzying camera work by cinematographer Eric Schmidt...
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Hugo: A Love Letter to Cinema
If there was ever a director out there who could bring the new cutting edge technologies of film to a tale, while keeping the classic touch in a magical tribute to cinema, its director Martin Scorsese. ”The movies are our special place,” says Hugo, the main character, and through Scorsese’s vision it’s easy to whole-heartedly believe it.
From the minute Hugo begins, it sweeps the viewer...
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Full Monty for the Fans: An Interview with the...
“We’re more of a sculpture band,” starts The Fray’s frontman Isaac Slade. “We have a rough idea of what we want things to look like and sound like, but we don’t know what’s going to be so we keep on chipping away and forming it until it resonates with us, and then at that point we put the damn thing out.”
Sometimes it takes decades to hear the progression of a musician’s bleeding heart out...
Catching inspiration
Lots of good pieces coming up. Some from The Rumpus and others that are still in the bare stages. Stay tuned! Once again, I caught a little inspiration at the end of my day this evening. I hope all of you aspiring artists out there find that one thing that drives you forward, because while this lifestyle may be fulfilling it certainly isn’t easy.
