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draft For what it is worth, here are my impressions of the Academy Awards 2022.  I have no special insight but I have been around for a whil...

draft Harvey Weinstein has been unveiled as a sexual predator and his career is ruined. I am a little cynical that this gets at the lev...

In Hollywood, it is said, people are something that they are not. This is a joke that tries to make fun of the phenomenon that people ar...

Whenever we see a threatened community in this chaotic world stand fast and united in support of fundamental values I think it is importa...

As we are all aware, the modern cinema has moved beyond the giant robot to embrace a far richer and more diverse metaphor to better repre...

In three previous posts we discussed the practice and mythology of underbidding a project in visual effects, something that is alleged to...

All Hollywood has been abuzz with rumors of a new technology which shows blood in 3D in a much better way. “This is what we have been...

Rewritten on 5/1/2025 to tone down my real feelings. Although Hollywood is awash with so-called 3D films, more properly called stereoscopic,...

It would seem that the art of insulting people and character assassination has gone downhill in recent years with nowhere near the eleganc...

When I declined to attend the SIGGRAPH 2013 Keynote Speech, a friend was surprised and concerned. The Keynote speech was a collection o...

Isn't it convenient that Ed Snowden forgot to expose our Government's secret multi-decade program to influence world affairs thr...

If Hollywood holds one principle above all others, that principle would probably be "There is nothing in the world more important tha...

[Foreign Policy Online has an article on the movie and its portrayal of torture in Zero Farce Thirty restating the conclusion of the Washing...