Archive for the 'Movie Reviews' Category

A quick update on multiple goings-on in the world, some recent, some… not so much:

Another sad year for the Oscars. I speak not of the presentation itself, which was interestingly muted and low-key relative to years past, and featured some interesting performance art-ish attempts at classing things up, but rather of the award distribution. […]

While I wish to refrain from becoming one of those sorts who spends more time cycling out different site designs than actually, say, adding new content, I want to move this site into a more professional direction and use it to focus on some of the stuff I do outside of OverClocked ReMix, which gets […]

I haven’t posted in a good, long while, for a veritable cornucopia of reasons, including this site’s migration to the same server that hosts my primary creative focal point, OverClocked ReMix. I intend to post more often now, if only because I’ve visited several blogs in the interim that seemed even less interesting than […]

I didn’t like Dead Man’s Chest. Sam I am.

I like thought-provoking films, challenging films… anything by Lars Von Triers, Wong Kar Wai, or Kubrick will usually do the trick.  Unlike the typified American - however true that stereotype is - I embrace subtitles, vastly preferring speed-reading to witnessing asynchronous voice performances and compromised translations.
There’s some question, then, as to why I paid cash […]

While 20th Century Fox were wise to release their Omen remake on 6/6/06, viewers could just as easily have stayed home and watched the 1976 original and seen essentially the same thing, minus the inept direction of John Moore, lackluster soundtrack by Marco Beltrami (which dilutes some of Goldsmith’s original themes into almost unrecognizable schlock), […]