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July 22, 2010 0

Vote for Star Wars: Forgotten Realm

By Scott Cederlund in movies

Star Wars Tags: Atom.com,Atom Originals,Atom Blog,Upload Videos Star Wars: Forgotten Realm is a movie my cousin’s husband has been working on forever.  In fact, my cousin and her daughter are featured quite predominantly in this trailer that he’s put together.  (That cutie at the beginning is Victoria.) This trailer has been entered in the Star [...]

July 19, 2010 1

Movie Monday: Inception (2010: dir Christopher Nolan)

By Scott Cederlund in Review, movies

As we look for new frontiers to develop, colonize and eventually exploit, movies point us in the direction of our own dreams and memories.  Christopher Nolan has already explored this with 2,000’s Memento, the story of a man who’s lost his memories, where every moment is a new and unique experience for him whether he [...]

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May 8, 2010 0

Citizen Stark– quick thoughts on Iron Man 2

By Scott Cederlund in movies

O.k., I can’t be the only one who saw this: and thought of the song number in Citizen Kane (I can’t embed the Youtube Citizen Kane clip here so please follow the link) where Charles Foster Kane is celebrated in music by dancing girls, sycophants and employees.  Both performances celebrate the narcissistic characteristics of Kane [...]

November 1, 2009 0

Gutter Shots #13- The Great Escape

By Scott Cederlund in movies, podcasts- WH

Steve McQueen. James Garner. Richard Attenborough. Ty and Scott get together to talk about 1963′s THE GREAT ESCAPE. Click here to listen to the podcast.

 
September 15, 2009 1

Fighting fire with fire– thoughts about Inglourious Basterds

By Scott Cederlund in Review, movies

Inglourious Basterds starts out languidly enough; a farmer goes about his work while his daughters do theirs’.  They live on a large, open piece of land in the French countryside that’s almost right out of The Sound of Music or some other great movie that celebrates a long lost simple life.   The piece and tranquility [...]

September 1, 2009 0

Gutter Shots #9– Stayin’ Alive

By Scott Cederlund in Gutter Shots, comics, movies, podcasts- WH

After a smallish break (don’t believe the rumors that Ty absconded with all of the Gutter Shots’ coffers even if those rumors were started by Scott,) our intrepid heroes are back for another stattershot look at the recent pop culture that they’ve ingested.  Included in this show are discussions about the Bee Gees, Shoot ‘Em [...]

 
August 18, 2009 0

Miyazaki’s vision– thoughts on Ponyo

By Scott Cederlund in Review, movies

Over the last ten years, Hayao Miyazaki has become one of my favorite storytellers.  His movies like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind create new, magical worlds that are born from a rich and quite lovely imagination.  I think one of the beauties of Miyazaki’s storytelling is that [...]

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July 21, 2009 2

The dark hallways of Hogwarts– quick thoughts on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

By Scott Cederlund in Review, movies

Whenever my wife watches a Tom Clancy movie, I have to suffer through her mumbling to herself “that’s not how it is in the book.”  As a comic fan, I’ve learned enough times that the movies will never be the comics and vice versa but for some reason, I can’t apply that lesson to the [...]

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May 12, 2009 0

The only true currency in this bankrupt world…

By Scott Cederlund in movies

This scene from Almost Famous rattles around in my head a lot for some reason.

April 15, 2009 1

Jaime Hernandez covers Divorce Italian Style

By Scott Cederlund in comics, movies

Criterion loves getting comic artists to illustrate their DVD covers.  In the past year or two, Darwyn Cooke and Sean Phillips have both contributed covers to the Criterion series.  The latest comic artist to grace the cover of a Criterion DVD is Jaime Hernandzez on Divorce Italian Style . Hernandez’s artwork is also available as [...]

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