Alright, so this is a bit of a cheat because the true highlight of this piece is a 34-minute film (see below). However, Werner Herzog’s latest endeavor is against texting while driving as he continues to make content for the AT&T campaign. The first product of this was a much publicized commercial that succinctly relays the […]
This week is all Elysium all the time. Ryan Amon‘s score for the film is released today in the lead up to the Friday August 9th release of the film. This is Neill Blomkamp’s follow up to District 9, which offers its own pressures, but he also rested the musical powers in the hands of someone whose […]
In 2011, Jeff Mangum, of Neutral Milk Hotel fame, started releasing radio broadcasts online. Playlists of sorts, programming as one would not hear; only two such groupings were ever released, but they offer insight and context for one of the most ambitious and absent creatives of the modern era. Now that NMH is touring and the ever-distant is […]
This week has seen a promotion explosion for Alfonso Cuarón‘s upcoming film Gravity. Like many, I have been waiting to see a new film from Cuarón for years. Though he’s presented a few bits of content in the form of shorts here and there, and has a new television show starting this fall, the big viewing on […]
“Well, you’ve got to be known for something. The Danger of extreme versatility is that you don’t spring to mind for anything.” -Julian Fellowes (supposedly) Over the holiday weekend I fed the urge to rewatch Independence Day by buying it on blu-ray (which actually sports a fantastic image/sound job despite being a release from the earlier […]
