Short Film Friday: 43,000 Feet (Dir.: Campbell Hooper)
This week’s SFF has me facing one of my worst possible fears. Brought to us by the people at Special Problems, a ‘multi-disciplinary studio’ that creates music videos, commercials and […]
Review: Deck Around
We are living in a new world. The old established champions of the table top (your Milton Bradleys and your Parker Brothers) are being supplanted by a new guard of […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman: July 23, 1967 to February 2, 2014
This is just shitty, shitty news. Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his Manhattan home today. While we have no details as of yet on […]
Is Gone Home Worth Its $20 Price Tag?
Last weekend I finally got the chance to play The Fullbright Company’s 2013 critical darling Gone Home. Yes, I realize the game came out way back in August last year, […]
And the Grammy goes to…
This performance was insane, meaning everything that came after sucked even more! Truth be told, I hate the Grammys. I hate them for multiple reasons. They exist to raffirm who […]
Celebrate Robbie Burns Day in Style
Tomorrow is Robbie Burns Day, a day of celebration for lovers of poetry, drink, and all other flavours of Scottish Culture. It is a day in honour of Scottish poet […]
Short Film Friday: Mad God (Dir. Phil Tippett) {Crowdfunded Ed.}
The Mad Director Mad God was an under-the-radar Kickstarter, raking in a relatively small 124,156$ (for comparison Veronica Mars raised 5.7M) but stood out to me personally because it was […]
Crowdfunded Edition: The Changing Relationship Between Creators & Consumers
Kickstarter recently released their year-end numbers for 2013 – 3M people pledging 480M$ and I think I may have spent close to that much myself on wallets, comic-books, watches and various […]
The Best Films of 2013 (Tom’s Picks)
I want to preface this by saying there are still plenty of films from 2013 that I have not seen. Several films from countless best of lists have been ommitted […]
Short Film Friday: The Cub (Dir: Riley Stearns)
Last week for Short Film Friday, we posted Record/Play, one of the films shortlisted for Oscar nomination in the live action short category. Sadly, with the nominations being released yesterday, […]
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