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The Ferris Bueller Fight Club theory

How is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” like “Fight Club”?

3 May 2009 | Comments |

Star Wars & false memories

Have you ever asked yourself how it is you ever knew that an Ewok was an Ewok? Because its not how you think it was learned.

12 March 2009 | Comments |

Your brain after being punched

Matthew Baldwin (of the artfully entertaining online magazine The Morning News) has put together his list of sixteen “mindfuck movies”, movies that “pry open your skull and punch your brain” and, on an individual basis, are sometimes referred to as “that flick I watched while I was baked out of my mind.”
No list, compiled by another, can [...]

13 February 2009 | Comments |

Guerrilla Film Distribution in New Hampshire

An interesting story on NPR’s All Things Considered about Jay Craven a producer/director who distributes his films by driving them around in his Mini and staging screenings in small venues. I mean small. Like the public library’s community room.
Even so, his films have starred the likes of Michael J. Fox (who worked for free) and [...]

10 January 2008 | Comments |

Perseverance

Lines that were never said:
Beam me up, Scotty.
Play it again, Sam.
Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.
It’s elementary, my dear Watson.
How is it that these misattributed lines have stuck for so long despite being discredited? Social Psychology tells us that these have stuck around despite being revealed as false constructions and will continue to do [...]

18 December 2007 | Comments |

Next on Frontline: The Ultimate Driving Machine

More on the ubiquitous voices in media (I’ll stop sometime)
Do you watch Frontline? You should, by the way. Best news-magazine style show on TV. Frontline retains a certain air of sober integrity amongst the crop of glitzy, ratings-hungry news-magazines one finds on network television. Anyway, much as there is a signature vocal manner associated with [...]

14 December 2007 | Comments |