Recent Columns and Opinion
New Rant by Eric Renderking Fisk...
"Thriller: Michael Jackson"
Published June 28th, 2008: "I'm trying to set aside my memories of the early 1980's and the
album everyone had to have and the videos on MTV that everyone had to
see, from the caricature of himself that he became. How can I remove
the ugly rumors, innuendo and allegations made in charges against in
those court cases from the musical artist that I enjoyed during some
of my formative years? [Read
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I am extremely proud to announce The Electric Speakeasy
fedora created by John Penman...
What John has done is phenomenal - taken our sites logo
as the inspiration and making it into something that's real,
tangible and sharp looking. The craftsmanship on this product
is like everything else Mr. Penman does; perfection - from
the placement of the bow to the hidden stitches. This is
something so unique, it will separate you from the crowd
and will not be mistaken for any other hero hat.
You can find out more about this incredible lid in our
thread
here...
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of all the movies made to cash in on the Indiana Jones phenomenon after
"Raiders of the Lost Ark," there’s really only one that wasn’t awful. In
fact it was quite memorable and remarkable in its own right. ...It’s kind of funny, seeing how “Romancing The Stone” was homage to Raiders
of the Lost Ark, while Raiders was homage to Republic serials and other
films such as David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and John Huston’s “Treasure
of the Sierra Madre.” The original source material was good, but somehow
these movies just make it better.
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Flicks To Hold You Over: Saturn3: "At the end of my
review of "Frankenstein,"
I mentioned a short list of movies or books that are essentially
nothing more then recycling of Mary Shelly's original work.
"Jurassic Park," "Blade Runner," the recently re-imaged
"Battlestar Galactica" (humans created the first Cylons),
Edward Scissorhands, Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," Frank Herbert's
"DUNE," and even the now obscure "Saturn 3" starting Kirk
Douglas, Farah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Are all, in retrospect,
variations on the same theme if not out-right remakes.
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From The Indy Experience archives:
"The Journey Of Natty Gann" and "AI:
Artificial Intelligence." [With
"Saturday Night Fever" thrown in because of the cool new logo!
Flicks To Hold You Over: "Frankenstein (1931)" review by
Eric 'Renderking' Fisk:
"There's a lot about this movie to love if you're a vintage
aficionado or just a classic movie fan. It's wonderful schmaltz
from Hollywood, hoak played straight with make-up and special
effects that were top-notch in the day but look extremely
quaint and cheesy by our advanced yet jaded culture. This
movie had effects that were state-of-art back then with
the sparks, Tesla devices and Jacob's Ladder (the two wires
or conductors that point up into the air and electricity
sparks climb upward...) that seem extremely primitive and
dated by our standards while (in my opinion) still work
in the context with-in the story and this version of Mary
Shelly's story.
This is also a horrible film in the sense that it perfectly
illustrates man's cruelty to his own creation, our own "children,"
and is the perfect metaphor for how modern science and society
quickly discard discoveries and inventions for the next
big thing.
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New On DVD: "Man Hunt" Fritz Lang was in peak form as a Hollywood
studio director when he made
Man Hunt (1941),
a terrific thriller whose title, like so many things Langian, cuts two
ways. First, Capt. Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon), celebrated English
big-game hunter, is caught near Berchtesgaden just as he's drawn a bead
on Adolf Hitler.
Fedora Chronicles Reviews:
“To Boldly Review What The Fedora Chronicles Has Not Before” By
David Ulloa...
Flicks To Hold You Over:
"Star Trek" reviewed by Eric 'Renderking' Fisk...
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The Electric Speakeasy -
DLFerguson reviews
"Sky Captain and The World Of Tommorow: "The look of the movie is
achieved through the means of almost total CGI. Except for the actors,
their costumes and some of the sets, nearly everything else is a digital
creation and the results are simply astounding in evoking a 1939 that
only existed in the pages of pulp magazines and serials and could only
be realized now. There’s a certain irony in the fact that the best way
to visualize a world of the past is by means of a futuristic technology
but it works. Boy, does it ever work."
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Published
February 18th, 2009 -
Alice Chuang's Australia - Reel Deal review. "The cinematography
is the film's strongest suit. But that was really to be expected when
going to see a Baz Luhrmann film, Guy knows how to work a camera, what
a surprise, right? Several scenes were so breathtaking and well done
that they had me whimpering in my theatre seat."
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 Reports
from Comic-Con from Published Monday, February 23rd, 2009 -
Jason "Cousi" Cousineau and
Doug
Palumbo - "Webhead73"
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