Inside the Industry: Sumner Redstone & Brad Grey at USC

I will be the first to admit that I kind of squandered the time I spent at the USC School of Cinematic Arts (which was called the School of Cinema-Television way back in the day when I went there).  I went to all my classes and wrote my papers and stuff but I didn’t take [...]

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The Boondock Saints

I’ve gotten to the point in my tenure as a Netflix customer (I like how they call it “member” like it’s exclusive) where movies will show up in my queue and I will have no idea what my thought process was when I decided to add them.  Such was the case when Overnight showed up [...]

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a screening of Wes Anderson’s newest foray into style and humor (most people call this a movie), Fantastic Mr. Fox.  I don’t normally use phrases like “I had the pleasure of..” but it really was a pleasure!  I don’t mean like the dirty, carnal pleasure I [...]

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