I desperately wanted to do a special Oscar prediction video for you guys but believe it or not, it takes me longer to record and edit a video than it does for me to write what I was going to…
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place your bets: oscar picks of 2011
Tagged with: 2011, 83rd, academy award, awards, black swan, christopher nolan, inception, indoob, movies, natalie portman, oscars, predictions, the king's speech, the social network, true grit
Posted in academy awards, awards, movie, oscar
Posted in academy awards, awards, movie, oscar
the inevitable oscar nod snub(s)
The Oscar nominations are in. (How cliché is that phrase today?) And closely followed is the “snubbed” list. Surely you can find the nomination list anywhere, and they probably have their own list of snubs and in a day or…
Tagged with: 2011, awards, black swan, christopher nolan, daft punk, inception, movies, nominations, oscars, scott pilgrim vs the world, snubs, the social network, tron: legacy
Posted in academy awards, awards, movie, oscar
Posted in academy awards, awards, movie, oscar
originality: an original origin story about an original originator
With a title like that, I really set myself up, didn’t I? Well I will spoil the ending now: there’s nothing new under the sun. Yet one can argue that there are no original stories left to tell, which might…
Tagged with: 500 days of summer, bubba ho-tep, inception, memories, movies, original, story, storytelling
Posted in babbling, movie, story, storytelling, writing
Posted in babbling, movie, story, storytelling, writing
can m. night shyamalan redeem himself?
I’m writing this while still being caught up with Inception and its crucial last scene ending. I want to call it a “twist-ending” but I think it’d be more correct to call it an ambiguous ending, since so many people…
Tagged with: christopher nolan, devil, inception, indoob, m. night shyamalan, movies, storytelling, trailer, writing
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Posted in movie
inception: film review
There was some hype built around this movie months before it was released. Very few people knew about it, and the few that did, had no real clue as to what it was about. And that’s exactly how Christopher Nolan…
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