Faraway, So Close

Coincidence or planned attempt to subtly tell you what to think by some left/right-wing media conspiracy to undermine the Presidential election:
Consider: McCain left the Arizona stage to part of Hans Zimmer’s score from “Crimson Tide.” (This part, actually.) The 1995 Tony Scott film focused on a career Navy man (Gene Hackman), labeled a maverick by [...]

[A 24 Hour Trip to New York] from M. Ward on Vimeo.

I think this video (or something like it) should be required viewing for North Americans before we head out each day to go buy/build/use/dispose of stuff around us. But really, it’s one of those things that makes you think a bit but then how much do you actually change the way you live? [...]

I love Batman stuff. Batman always trumps Superman in my books.
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From the movie ‘Once’, Falling Slowly is a beautiful song with a haunting hook that sticks in your head for days/weeks.

After watching bits and pieces of the Academy Awards, here are some of the movies we’d like to see:

Atonement
Enchanted
Autumn Rush
Once
There Will Be Blood
La Vie En Rose
No Country for Old Men
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Michael Clayton
The Last King of Scotland
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

We don’t get out to a lot [...]

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EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is sure to stir up a lot of controversy and bring up a lot of important questions. It’s critical that we take a stand to fight for the truth. In EXPELLED Ben questions why all the Neo-Darwinists are so nervous right now. What are they so afraid of? [...]

It’s Friday so all you get is a movie trailer. Your refund is in the mail. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be -50 with the wind chill so chances are there will be drastic changes to this site as I get bored/cabin fever.

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Second Skin takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found new purpose, addicts, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild [...]

This will only be funny to a few of you (or one of you?) but to those few, it will be really funny and good news:

Mark introduced me to Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K) back in high school and I don’t know if I’ve ever laughed so hard at a movie I’ve watched. Best [...]