Aug 18 2008
Move Over Big Oil, Here Comes Big Water
Wow, after watching this trailer, I really had to pee. Welcome to the world we live in, a world in which are supply is dwindling, we pay billions for the bottled stuff each year, and no one regulates the vauable resource we know as water. Flow, a new documentary which premiered at Sundance and is playing New York/LA this month at DocuWeek Theatrical Documentary Showcase, predicts a dry future similar to that in Tank Girl (If you remember that movie, something is wrong with you).
Check out the trailer below and if you thirst for more knowledge on the subject, go here to read an interview with Flow’s director Irena Salina. Now in hopes of lightening the woe that accompanies the end of the world as we know it, check out the relevant clip from Penn and Teller’s HBO show Bullshit on the truth about bottled water. I promise you will not be disappointed.
I have always thought of the Olympic opening ceremonies as a little overdramatic and dare I say cheesy. Well thanks to a 300 million dollar budget and the artistic vision of renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, 2008’s Bejing ceremonies were legendary - despite the frequent flood warnings and technical difficulties interrupting the broadcast thanks [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]