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Louis Ramos Oct 24, 2010

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The Pitch: Mirror’s Edge

Michael Tenzer Aug 13, 2010

Though it never made a monolithic splash in the video game market, the frenetic and visually lush first-person thriller, Mirror’s Edge, was able to gain a cult following due to its astonishing skyscraper gymnastics and it’s focus on -running- rather then -fighting-. The game is set against a luminous white-washed environment, throwing the player into a world of geometric blues, red, greens and yellows – a world where every mundane object becomes a path to escape. The sense of tension and anxiety that runs high across the entire gaming experience makes it rife for a cinematic adaptation.

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The Slasher's Style: An Brief Introduction To Italian Cinematic Giallo

Michael Liuzza Aug 10, 2010

From Wikipedia:

Giallo (Gialli) is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism. The word giallo is Italian for "yellow" and stems from the origin of the genre as a series of cheap paperback novels with trademark yellow covers. •••


Like a handful of Japanese films of the same period, The Italian giallo is worthy of recognition due to its contribution to the contemporary horror film genre. Many cult ...

Cinema Etiquette: 8 Things You Should Never Do in Movie Theaters (Part 1)

Michael Tenzer Aug 06, 2010

Going to a movie theater can be a magical experience...under the right conditions. There's no other place to become so absorbed by a film – its color, its character, its sound – all while sitting in the darkened recesses of a multiplex or independent theater. When the film reel crackles and the speakers grumble you almost instinctively get goosebumps of anticipation. More over, you get to share this feeling with other film lovers, all supposedly there to be consumed by the movie's universe, just like you.

However, there is a heinous, grotesque side to movie theaters. As with any ...

Daddy Loves You: The Year Of The Immoral Opportunist

Nelson Carvajal Aug 04, 2010

When Paul (Mark Ruffalo) cracks a naughty smile while listening to the story of how Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) first met (hint: sexual innuendos swim in that story pond), a mutual sense of playful giddiness permeates through the audience sitting in the auditorium. Although it pains the kids (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) to have to listen to the origins of their lesbian parents’ romance again, for the people watching the movie, it’s a harmless exchange of information. However, it isn’t until the second half of Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, that ...

“Thor” Bore And “Junk Food Filmmaking”

Michael Liuzza Jul 30, 2010

WARNING: No Spoilers In This Review! I Need Only Watch The Trailer!

If ever there was a story that could succeed on Hollywood’s epic period piece scale, it’s the mythical tale of Thor in Norse Mythology.  In fact, I’ve been waiting 30 years for Hollywood to attempt a big budget, big screen adaptation of this fervent, remarkable world; that world with its glorious stories and larger than life figures, are immensely suitable for grand scale cinematic escapism.

But let’s face it: for the most part, studios do things for the “buck” of it. Therefore, we now ...