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An Inconvenient Truth
Found some time today to see Al Gore’s docu-hit, An Inconvenient Truth. In many ways it was a better...
Found some time today to see Al Gore’s docu-hit, An Inconvenient Truth. In many ways it was a better...
I’m currently snowed under trying to finish this Film Scoring course. Have to say, it has been a lot...
Typically the score for a movie is not created until late in the film making process. Once the “rushes”...
The New York Times reports that Fox have created a new division, FoxFaith, to distrubute Christian movies. “Many of...
Not only do I have mixed feelings about continuing these weekly roundups, but I have mixed feelings about all...
I’m coming to the end of my 12 week course on Film Scoring with Berklee. It has been a...
Postmodernity as an academic and cultural project was greatly challenged by the events of 9/11. But, that didn't mean...
Possibly my all-time favourite theology quote, from Hans-Georg Gadamer’s work on aesthetics, The Relevance of the Beautiful, The Proclamation...
I’ve been thinking a lot about maps lately, having just finished Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence and recently started Willie...
“The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.” Peter Berger Medea...
I have been adding a lot of stuff to my del.icio.us pages and there is a lot of interesting...
You can just imagine the film pitch – “we have this idea; snakes, on a plane.” Yes, but what...
“Mainstream films are now about the removal of any kind of psychological or emotional complexity because they have to...
“We don’t really have popular culture anymore, so much as a fragmented market crowded with expertly segmented, mutually hostile...
Not Tom Cruise, but Shah Rukh Khan; the biggest thing in Bollywood (Indian Cinema). As The Guardian puts it...
Matchpoint – Has Woody Allen ever made a creakier and more wooden film in his life? Well, yes actually;...