April 2010

With summer just around the corner, Seattle welcomes the return of warm summer nights, family vacations, the afternoon barbeque and Zombies? Yes, thousands of Zombies are planning their return to Fremont this Fourth of July weekend to walk and dance their way back into the history books for a bloody good time and cause.

The Fremont Outdoor Movies is counting on all of Seattle to come out and represent their city to return the Guinness World Record back to its rightful owner and crown Seattle the “Zombie Capital of the World” once and for all in the Dead Center of the Universe – Fremont.
The Zombie walk world record is 4,026 and currently held by the Big Chill Music Festival in the England, which narrowly edged out Seattle’s 3,894 last August. Event Producer, Ryan Reiter believes it will take 10,000 zombies to hold onto it for a while, but is confident Seattle can do it. Eric Pope of The Seattle Zombie Walk organization is back to help unite and lead the official Zombie Walk this July and excited about the possibilitIes.
Last summer’s event spectacle, The Red, White, and Dead Zombie Walk on the Fourth of July weekend in Seattle at which 6,000 people in full zombie costumes mobbed the streets and subsequently won a Guinness World Record in front of thousands of fans at the Comic Con Convention in San Diego.
ZomBcon arose from the success of last summer’s event spectacle, The Red, White, and Dead Zombie Walk on the Fourth of July weekend in Seattle at which 6,000 people in full zombie costumes mobbed the streets and subsequently won a Guinness World Record in front of thousands of fans at the Comic Con Convention in San Diego.
**********IMPORTANT NOTICE**********
Register online and purchase your ticket for the Zombie Walk and Movie Screening. By purchasing the ticket, your avoid the lines on the day of the event.
REGISTER ONLINE for the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD - http://redwhiteanddeadzombie.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfb
2010 RED, WHITE, AND DEAD EVENT SCHEDULE:
- Zombie Make-Up Event: 12:00 – 4:00pm
- Zombie Walk Registration starts at 12:00pm
- Thriller Dance Workshop: 3:00 – 4:00pm
- Special Musical Performance starts 4:00pm
- Fashionably Dead Costume Contest: 4:00pm *
- Zombie Walk #1 – 5:00pm
- Thriller Dance Youtube Video: 7:00pm
- Guinness World Record Announcement: 8:30pm
- Movie Screening – 9:30pm
This year’s festivities will return with a huge Thriller Dance, Zombie fashion show, musical performances, special guests and all time Zombie classic, George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD. This year’ event will also include a blood drive, canned food drive and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the local non profit organization, the Seattle International Film Festival in support of their new film center that will be at the Seattle Center.

WE HAVE FUN HERE - The Outdoor Cinema Events is a community spirited, big screen celebration of outdoor summer fun that happens in Seattle and Los Angeles every summer. This “walk-in” style event, where audiences bring their own seating and actively encouraged to join in an atmosphere of irreverent, laid back humor and “outta the box” entertainment mashed together to create the ultimate movie fan experience.
The outdoor movie series is an ongoing summer long tradition for the past 18 years built around an exciting program of cult classics, pop favorites, cool shorts and pre-show entertainment that play to over 65,000 people every summer over a period of twelve weeks in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Last year’s highlights included, The Guinness World Record for the “Largest Zombie Walk in the World”, Lebowski Fest “Speed of Sound” Tour celebrating “Everything Lebowski” from the cult hit The Big Lebowski, from the Coen Brothers. We also hosted a huge Pillow Fight, and ended the season with one big Fremont Oktoberfest kick off with “Animal House” with a huge beer garden.
In 2009, we had our biggest year yet; producing over 20 events with over 45,000 people attending in the summer long series this season and we expect it be even bigger in 2010. Along with our large Social Media marketing campaign through Twitter and Facebook, we offer a huge promotional campaign that offers you more bang for your buck and reaches your audience faster and quicker.
The summer of 2010 is already shaping up to be a big year with the return of our hugely anticipated RED, WHITE, & DEAD that aims to go after the history books again to bring the Zombie Record back to U.S. soil and so much more! We may be a community event, but our impact is worldwide and always having fun. Best part is we have sponsorships to fit any budget large or small.
Come see what all the buzz is about in Seattle and a hero in your community every Saturday night underneath the stars.

The Ultimate Family Portrait at Iron Giant Photography by Rick Carroll
Calling all Facebook weekend photo stars looking for a fun way to celebrate your warm summer nights outdoors. Here’s your chance to grab some friends, get dressed up, and strike a pose….no seriously, do it, we dare you.
With summer just around the corner, The Fremont Outdoor Movies is bringing the fun factor back to Saturday nights for some seriously fun photo opportunities for your gang of friends to get goofy! This year we are kicking off the the season with Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts, and a Prom Party to name just a few!
How does it work? It’s easy, get dressed up before the show or use our threads at the photo booth and give us your best shot. Heck it’s free and the top three winners get prizes for their participation. Every week, one lucky group wins a FREE pizza party for their next screening.
Last year’s line up included E.T., Army of Darkness, Indiana Jones, Shaun of the Dead, and so many others.

Every time I write these days I apologize for not writing.   But there are a couple of reasons.  I expended a lot of x’s and o’s on my film opinions in the past decade and had my say on many issues.  I’ve been letting the field go fallow for a bit, letting the compost build up some, laying down some new soil to see what hybrids might take root.  One thing I’ll say is that in the past five years there have been three films which have won Best Picture Oscars and given me hope.  They are BABEL, CRASH and now HURT LOCKER.  I saw it last night and it goes on my 50 film list, now up to 52 with the addition of Harutyun Khachatryan’s BORDER.  I still think that Hollywood is a colonizing force rather than a liberating one.  But it used to be years between films of value.  I hope a sea change is coming, some kind of realignment, a new wave of real artists able to go beyond pop culture and political correctness.  We’ll see.
My other reason is below.  We’ve been very productive around here.  We finished up the 9 @ Night Film Series a couple of years back and opened it at Harvard and in San Francisco.  We finished PRESQUE ISLE, produced by the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking and this year SAND featuring Irit Levi and William Martin, the first of the new features from Citizen Cinema.  I was in Ukraine twice in 2009 making a feature documentary about Trotsky.  Citizen Cinema pictures COLLAPSE, SISTERS and MAELSTROM were produced and are in the edit room.  We’re looking for some new editorial interns by the way.  We’ve got a lot of good new work for people interested in learning the Direct Action style of editing.
And now IMBUED.  Working with Stacy Keach was an inspiration!  You’ve got to see his work along with that of Liz Sklar, Michelle Allen and Nancy Bower!  It’s a departure from the 9 @ Night era but a good amalgam of new and old and a film which explores the Adam and Eve in all of us.  Please try to see this film.  It is strong, full of heart and contains mysteries worth exploring.  And I assure you it’s worth the price of admission just to see Liz Sklar dance.  And Mickey Freeman’s cinematography.  Terrific.  Please let people know about this Kansas City Opening to be followed by an appearance at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Festival on April 29, and the Golden Apricot Festival in Armenia in July.  As always we’re doing this on our own hook with only people power and personal conviction to sustain us.  You can help us by forwarding this message to your lists.  And if you’re in the area, see you at the Kansas City Film Festival and the Screenland Crown Center.
Onward!

Exit Through the Gift ShopOutstanding Reviews, Key Cities (Doc) (82.6% Positive). Exit Through the Gift Shop opened in key cities to outstanding reviews. • Allen Johnson wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, "...a fascinating and entertaining glimpse into the world of high-level and socially conscious graffiti... More about this film...

Who says family entertainment has to be nerfed? How to Train Your Dragon is a great action movie with an easy to like story, something you'd find in most Pixar/Disney animated films.

Set in world of dragons and Vikings, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) is a pre-teen struggling to make his father proud and follow the footsteps of the dragon-hunting Vikings. As he makes a connection with a dragon, he discovers that the body of knowledge his people has built over the centuries is full of inconsistencies. He then must reconcile the true nature of dragons and Viking communal knowledge/tradition.

Voice acting is top notch with Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (the last two are two of fave actors from Superbad). The animation is not that captivating, but the final battle sequence draws a lot from epic film inspiration. My only beef is that the film is a bit lacking on humor.

How to Train Your Dragon delivers the goods as a family-friendly adventure that kids and parents will like.

Rating: 4/5

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We see many movies on a weekly basis but it will be much more convenient if we can Watch Movies Online instead of going to cinema halls to catch the first show. I had been searching for options to either download movies or watch Free Online Movies and found a great option in MovieMedias.
Do you know any sites to watch Hindi movies online? It’s good to see that some filmmakers are thinking of launching their movies on Youtube, I just wish they will have better quality. Something that’s not as heavy has HD but is better than their normal quality.
What’s your favorite site to watch films online? What kind of quality do you prefer? I believe HD is overrated because most monitors can’t render the quality anyway.

The first glance behind the scenes

Dog the Bounty Hunter is currently on tour, signing copies of his new book "Where Mercy is Shown, Mercy is Given." It's been an exhausting trek for the world's most famous bounty hunter, but Dog recently found the time to swing by the TNA Impact Zone, meeting up with the one and only Hulk Hogan.

See a picture of Dog and Hulk at TNAWrestling.com .

Steve Carell and Tina Fey star in director Shawn Levy's comedy about a couple whose routine date night becomes anything but when dinner and a movie just won't suffice anymore. Their union in imminent danger of becoming hopelessly monotonous, the desperate couple goes to unprecedented lengths in order to preserve the spark. Mark Wahlberg, James Fran...

Adapted from Mark Millar's hyper-violent comic book of the same name, director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake)'s vigilante superhero film tells the tale of an average New York teenager who decides to don a costume and fight crime. Comic book geek Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) may not have good coordination or special powers, but that doesn't mean he is...

Platinum Dunes revives the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with this reworking of slasher film legend Freddy Krueger, a deceased child killer who torments the dreams of the teenagers of Springwood, OH. Jackie Earle Haley picks up the killer's mantle from series veteran Robert Englund with the reboot from music-video director Samuel Bayer. ~ Jerem...

The Fremont neighborhood will be a little safer this Fourth of July weekend, as we set out to walk and dance our way into the history books one more time at the Fremont Outdoor Movies’ annual movie event, The Red, White, and Dead Zombie movie event thanks to the team at Zombie Squad in attendance this summer.
Zombie Squad is an elite zombie suppression task force ready to defend your neighborhood from the shambling hordes of the walking dead. We provide trained, motivated, skilled zombie extermination professionals and zombie survival consultants. Our people and our training are the best in the industry.
When the zombie removal business is slow we focus our efforts towards educating ourselves and our community about the importance of disaster preparation.
To satisfy this goal we host disaster relief charity fundraisers, disaster preparation seminars and volunteer our time towards emergency response agencies.
Our goal is to educate the public about the importance of personal preparedness and self reliance, to increase its readiness to respond to disasters such as Earthquakes, Floods, Terrorism or Zombie Outbreaks. We want to make sure you are prepared for any crisis situation that might come along in your daily life which may include having your face eaten by the formerly deceased.

We post many movie trailers on this movie review website but we only have access to Eros Entertainment Trailers. I will recommend a friend’s site for movie trailers. Cine Marv has a simple navigation, comprehensive collection and most importantly they also write synopsis for each trailer that makes them very different from watching the same trailer on YouTube or other ‘generic’ sites.
I also like their ad-free player, they only include ads in the sidebar and not as a video overlay. Moroever, the quality is definitely much better than what you get on other ‘generic video sites’.
Subscribe to their coming soon section’s RSS feed by mail and don’t miss any more movie trailers in life

Gene attempts to find "nice guys" for Sophie and Tracy before he dashes off to Australia on

Caroline Peters über "Mord mit Aussicht"

The team investigates a powerful case.

Angie's ex, Patrick Logan, finally catches up with her.

After her escape to Costa Rica, Violet returns home and to the practice.

Lynette discovers the truth about her future daughter-in-law.

Mark, Teddy, Callie and Arizona help Sloan deliver her baby; the doctors treat a crab boat captain who wa

Kevin tries to adjust to being unemployed.

Filmmakers Milo (director Tao Ruspoli) and Bella (Olivia Wilde from House Md) have one day to get Milo’s brother Leo (Shawn Andrews) from jail to rehab – and to raise the $ 5.000,- fee for the rehab clinic. Based on real events and filmed in documentary-style with handheld camera, Fix shows an alien, vast and [...]

Twenty-five years after abandoning his hometown, Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) gets a letter from his ex-girlfriend Sonny (Elisabeth Shue) saying that she is dying and wants him to come see her. When Don returns home, Sonny doesn't seem quite like he remembers her and everything seems a little bit off. In his darkly comic debut thriller, DON MCKAY, writer/director Jake Goldberger tells a story where no one is who they seem and everyone appears to be hiding something. DON MCKAY also stars Melissa Leo, James Rebhorn, M. Emmet Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Keith David.

New opportunities develop as the Walkers close Ojai Foods for good.

Tommy, Justin and Kevin confront Dennis.

More than one member of the Walker family thinks she might be pregnant.

Holly and Nora investigate Ojai's hidden worth.

The Fairview strangler's past is revealed.

Hollywood is running out of ideas again. How do I know? One of the clearest indicators is that the studios, having exhausted the supply of classic or even sub-par television shows to remake have now turned to a Mad Libs-style creative process in order to come up with film concepts. What better way to produce an entertaining movie than to string some seemingly random words together, base a script around them and then hire whoever needs the money to pay for rehab to star in these surefire hits?
Hot off the world-changing success of Snakes On A Plane, it was time to apply this Dada-esque strategy to a comedy and the result was Hot Tub Time Machine. If you say that title three times in front of a mirror, Candyman-style, you won’t get transported back in time like the film’s retarded protagonists, but you do run the risk of causing a vein to rupture inside your brain from the stupidity of the concept and effectively wipe out your memories of the past 25 years. Which is pretty much like time travel, only without the need to drive your Delorean into a hot tub.
Because honestly, who the fuck wants to revisit the 80’s? Three losers in this movie, played by John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry get to travel back to a ski vacation weekend from their final year of high school, dragging a reluctant nephew along with them to 1986. Said nephew then of course spends the entire time pointing out how awful everything about the 80’s really was, and he’s right - Day-Glo colors, enormous hair and music that relied more on its sense of style than sense of rhythm are all present and accounted for in this movie, rising up from the forgotten past like some kind of John Hughes marathon on VH1 seen through a shaggy hangover.
Of course, along with the played-out fashions and tired expressions there’s the need the recycle as many washed-up 80’s actors as possible to provide that continuity that Hot Tub Time Machine’s target demographic (kids who are too young to remember even the 90’s) are going for. We are treated to winners like Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase, actors who have fallen so far outside of popular conscience that they should have been forced to wear name tags to help the audience understand the novelty of their casting. I can only imagine the uncomfortable scenes that took place between takes as each of those has-beens gazed longingly at Cusack, secretly wondering how he managed to escape the 80’s comedy hell that they themselves never managed to shake.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. Hot Tub Time Machines boils down to a few very simple, very easy to understand points. If you love movies where men shout profanity at each other on an almost continuous basis, while occasionally being forced into either fellatio or stripping off all of their clothes in the presence of other men, then you will probably want to watch this twice. However, if you actually remember the 80’s, then you’ll understand when I tell you that sitting through this film is as depressing as watching Reagan get re-elected over and over and over again.

Impossible but true!

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Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.

Is this an epic action movie, or just a cheesy attempt to cash in on the 3D craze? Host Grace Randolph finds out if audiences want to clash with these titans!

The Tyler Perry Movie Factory continues to produce. Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if supply meets demand!

Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America. All these movies lead up to the main event, Marvel’s The Avengers movie in May 2012! Host Grace Randolph tells you who will be joining Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans, and who won’t! Everything you ever wanted to know about The Avengers movie is right here!

Kick Ass opens at number 2 in North America, falling short of huge box office expectations. Host Grace Randolph takes a closer look at what went wrong with the movie Kick Ass, what it means going forward, and gives her own review of Kick Ass.

No Michael Myers, no Jamie Lee Curtis, and no Donald Pleasance? Nope, just Tom Atkins butt and some defective Halloween masks. Now that truly is horrifying.

According to Hollywood, if you have been in any kind of committed relationship for more than a few months, you might as well be dead. If you are actually married, or have children well then forget dead – your penis and va-jay-jay have long since been entombed with the pharaohs in some dusty pyramid, never to again emerge into the world of actual sex.
In this fine tradition audiences have been treated to an endless succession of films which dare to ponder what nightmarish consequences might ensure for couples who make the mistake of breaking their tried and true routine. Witness Date Night, a film that stars not one but two reliable representatives of the non-romantic fuddy-duddy community: Steve Carell and Tina Fey. The general plot goes like this: couple decides to drive from Jersey to NYC to get a little dinner. Only instead of dinner they get: A DATE WITH DEATH!
Oh wait – that’s the plot of a much more interesting movie. You see, unlike any film aimed at the teenage set a trip from the ‘burbs to the big city doesn’t involve romantic misunderstandings or a touching coming of age experience but rather a night full of bumbling, gangsters and dirty cops. Instead of a grisly execution on the mean streets of New York, Fey and Carell lurch through the city trying to avoid the fate of the couple whose identity they mistakenly assumed when they stole their restaurant reservation. On the way, they are exposed to Marky Mark Wahlberg’s pecs and participate in the kind of pole dance routine that should be shown in every abstinence education program across the country. Oh and orchestrate a completely unbelievable SWAT sting operation at the end of the film to of course nail all the baddies to the wall - which is something Carell’s character learned how to do while getting his accounting certificate at UTI, I guess.
You see, where American movies like this one get things wrong is with their unwillingness to take any risks whatsoever. Had this been a Japanese script, our fun-loving middle-aged twosome wouldn’t have been able to shrug off the consequences of their dinner reservation gone wrong quite so easily. Oh no – in the middle of the meal Fey would have started to choke, reached into her mouth and begun to pull out an undead, zombie-like child holding her own uterus in its arms and cackling ‘SEVEN DAYS, SEVEN DAYS’ over and over again until Carell bludgeoned it to death with his salad fork. At that point, if anyone was still left in the theatre, Fey would have been attended to by a team of robot surgeons for the remainder of the film, each one cosmetically altered to resemble a former president of the United States.
My proposed plot for a remake of this humdrum date comedy might seem somewhat random, but it is certainly not boring – which is more than I can say for this re-treaded caper flick. Remember when your own parents would go out for dinner once a month, and then come home gassy, bloated and cranky from the bad buffet food and terrible service? This movie is just like that, minus the General Tao chicken.

An explosive tale of double cross and revenge, "The Losers" centers upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team--Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar--find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.

"Clash of the Titans" is a remake of the 1981 mythical adventure film about the myth of Perseus. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various quests and battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster in order to save the Princess Andromeda. The special effects creatures in the 1981 film were created by stop-motion FX master Ray Harryhausen.

The Hollywood Reporter has updated their list of shows currently on the network bubble (that is, shows that can go either way — cancellation or renewal), and while Heroes remains a mystery (NBC still refuses to make a decision on it), THR does give Heroes fans room for optimism. They write about the show’s chances: [...]

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Special Branch was a late '60s / early '70s police series about officers who dealt in matters involving espionage, politics and terrorism. It was a hit.

Guest review by Spazzo. This is an opera. The plot is about organ transplants that are repossessed if the owner does not make the payments. The cast includes Paris Hilton and Andrew Lloyd Webber's ex-wife. Yes, this is a real film.

Are The Losers, well, losers? Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if this low budget action movie can hold its own with the tentpole pics!

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J-Lo is back! Host Grace Randolph finds out if audiences care.

HBO has uploaded the trailer for Episode Five of The Pacific. Also available is the historical background video that will be shown before the Episode airs.

Preview Part 5
Basilone’s celebrity grows as he travels across the country on the war bonds tour. On Pavuvu, Sledge, assigned to the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, [...]

Coming up on Episode Six of The Pacific: Despite the suffocating 115-degree heat and a lack of clean drinking water, Sledge, Leckie and the other Marines confront the highly-fortified enemy as they attempt to capture the Peleliu airfield. After seeing his comrades badly injured, Leckie himself is wounded and evacuated from the island. Sledge witnesses [...]

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass
Reviewed by John David Ebert

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass is a new addition to the ever growing corpus of works in the superhero celluloid genre, and I must say that it is one of the best and most original superhero movies ever made. It is actually a metanarrative in the tradition of Kill [...]

Writing online can be frustrating, invigorating, exciting, demoralizing and rewarding all at once. I've probably wanted to quit and walk away from it a thousand times and still do at least once a week. I usually get drawn back in due to the excitement of seeing a little known movie and wanting to review it. Or going to see a much-discussed new release of which I want to be a part of the discussion. Or just the desire to take a general belief in some aspect of movie-making and put it into words. All of those would fall under the rewarding part of online writing.But the frustrating parts are legion. In fact, they may be greater than the rewarding parts. Let's see, for starters, there's getting into fights with friends over movies, goddamn movies! Or avoiding fights! Yes, that's a big one too. I see some asinine opinion that I want to take down but know I risk my sanity if I get involved and so I avoid it and instead fume, quietly and impotently. Or the feeling that the modus operandi of the online movie community is dull and getting duller. Specifically, take a movie or director not highly thought of and tout said movie or director as unappreciated and brilliant. Say things like, "One day this film/director will be revered, just you wait and see!" And then the comments say things like "I thought I was the only one" and everyone pats each other on the back for having the courage to recognize the artistry of some piece of shit low-budget craphole movie or some jackass talentless hack that the rest of us pay lip service to so as not to appear too cruel. "Well, yes," we say, "I can see your point but I just don't think Mike Mediocrity is that great a director," when what we really want to say is, "What in the fuck are you talking about? He sucks! His movies suck! And I've just lost what little respect I had for your taste with this latest salute to filmmaking half-assery!"And then there's the homogeny of the responses, the trotting out of the same jokey phrases ("I love me some" - Guess what? I fucking hate me some of that stupid cliche!), the reliance on the same tired formats and the leaning on the same pantheonistic crutches that have propped up one worthless movie site after another. Christ, have you looked around lately at some of the movies sites out there? I mean the commercial ones, the ones overflowing with up to the millisecond news items concerning the world of film, the ones that release a top 100 this or that every few months that we all discuss and argue about like the stupid fucking lemmings that we are, driven to mass intellectual suicide every time some idiot with a "History of the Movies" book writes a list proclaiming La Regle de Jeu or Citizen Kane is overrated while at the same time trumpeting the efforts of that dick you never heard of because it turns out he only made three movies in the 1970s and when you finally got a chance to see them on Netflix they turned out to be stinking, festering piles of horseshit. You know, that guy! He's a genius, Welles is a hack.Or how about the old switcheroo game we all play with director's credits. Boy, I love that game! You know, that's the game where someone sagely declares that, "Sure, I appreciate Vertigo and Psycho and Shadow of a Doubt but honestly I think I've come to view Topaz as Hitchcock's best work." Really? Then shut the fuck up and stop writing about movies because you have nothing important to add to the conversation. Or the reverse where someone declares that the director's most highly praised work really isn't that good. I love that game too! Love it!So where's all this bitter bile leading? What's all this about? How should I know, I'm just writing it. I'm just spewing forth whatever comes to mind in a fit of frustration about all the things I have to do and all the things I have no time to do. I have to get paying work because this shit just isn't cutting it. I find myself reviewing CDs for the free CDs themselves, no money. Great! That's a pretty difficult transaction to make work at the local Trader Joe's, I can tell you. So there's that.I also have to do things, lots of things, lots of random things around the house and around my life on a day to day basis, things that I enjoy doing and this online life cuts into the time needed for them. So the online life has to justify itself and more and more I see only the frustrations and fewer rewards. I'm trying to make short films and keep getting distracted from them by online activity. I'm trying to write a screenplay with a friend and can't focus on necessary plot details because of online activity. And I don't mind the online activity, the tweets and facebook status updates and blog posts, as long as at the end of the day they pay for their upkeep but lately, I'm not seeing significant returns on my investment if you know what I mean. I won't stop tweeting and facebooking but honestly, I cannot point to anything worthwhile I've done with them. I have enjoyed many conversations but in the end, it's just background noise, nothing else. Maybe I'm not imaginative enough with them but if that's the case at least I'm not alone because we all seem to be using them in the same way. I did start a joke group on Facebook, "If a million people join this group Larry Aydlette will get back online." A few people joined, I didn't advertise it, so you had to see it in my updates to even know about it. But then I started thinking, "Maybe Larry's got it right. Maybe Larry's smarter than all of us put together." I used to find it funny how Larry would go on and offline with such regularity but now I think I understand. It's all just background noise and it's up to us to search for the patterns in the static. If we find them, great! If we don't, or we get tired of the same patterns, we have to look deeper to find some meaning to what we're doing. I'm looking now but I also need to make some art and not just write about it. I'm not going anywhere, I think, or at least not yet, just trying to clear the air. The patterns are clear but the noise from the static is sometimes overwhelming and I just wanted to speak my peace before my voice got lost in the noise. Thanks.

And we're off! My wife, daughter and I are hitting the road for a college campus tour this weekend as the oldest daughter explores her collegiate options. See you next week!

...none of this means anything. This post has been a long time coming. In the past few months my productivity here has dropped off gradually, but not dramatically, and I find myself questioning more and more what any of it means and what value any of it holds. Not much, I think. I have stated both here and on Facebook my desire to complete a short film (one I'm not sure I even understand) and a story for a screenplay as well as the desire to find better paying work to provide for my family and make me a better father and husband. Right now, just now in fact, in this moment, Cinema Styles stands in the way of that. I have to put it aside, not indefinitely mind you, or even for an oppressively long period, just for a little while. Maybe two months, maybe only two weeks. I'd like to announce how long Cinema Styles will be idle but the truth is, I don't know. I do know I am not foolhardy enough to abandon something that has been as rewarding to me as this blog and so I assure you, I will not. I just need to finish some things up and kick-start a few others. For that to happen, I need to stop spending days tensing myself up because I can't think of anything good to write and then thinking of something, writing half of it and abandoning it only to start the whole process over with another piece that will end up in the same ashcan. And for what? I mean, really, there comes a time when reality makes itself known and announces loudly, "It's just a blog." What's more meaningful is when you finally hear it. I also know that reading the posts of others and commenting on said posts often provides me with inspiration so let me also apologize preemptively if all of this turns out to be much ado about nothing. To wit, don't be surprised if three days from now I put up a new piece. Such is the way of fleeting inspiration and if it does come, I won't suppress it. But if it doesn't, I'm not going to force it, and that's the main thing I'm attempting to state with this post.I will keep posting on The Invisible Edge for a couple of reasons. One, I have never not enjoyed it. Sometimes that has been the case here but there, never, not in over two years now (don't go by the archives dates, I'm constantly shifting, changing and deleting posts in an effort to simplify the format). I always enjoy sharing the bizarre photographic ephemera I come across in my casual searches of public libraries and university archives. And two, it's effortless. I mean, really, I find a pic, save it and post it. I don't even add captions to most of them anymore. Each post literally takes seconds to complete.As for Unexplained Cinema, I don't know. I'm not sure how many people find any value in it (or if I even do) but it is so low maintenance for me that I can't imagine bothering to suspend it or shut it down. If I post there again, great, if not, no big deal. It is my favorite template design though of all the ones I've created (if you scroll down the page it is intended to mimic frames in a film strip, hence, no sidebars) so I definitely will never get rid of it entirely. And that's that. I will see all of you on Facebook, at The Invisible Edge, at your blogs and websites or just... around. I'll return here too, in a bit, once I get my bearings. See you then.********************P.S. - My apologies, but the comments for this post are closed. Thanks.