• Captive Audience
    Captive Audience
    by Dave Reidy
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Wednesday
18Mar2009

Dezmin at SXSW: Rapid Reviews

5 days in Austin, Texas ... tough to beat.  Our thoughts:

 

1. "I Love You, Man" is very very funny. Good effort by Rudd, Segel, Favreau, and the girls at the Q&A too

2. "ExTerminators" also quite good ... But was about girls getting revenge, not former robots

3. a trifle disappointed with the first batch of shorts, some winners though

4. "Pulling John" ... Fantastic, exciting doc about pro arm wrestling ... John Brzenk is a mythical slayer of monsters!

5. "Objectified" was a little light on real ideas, a little heavy on industrial designers high giving each other. Looked nice though.

6. "Moon" was alright, outer space and talking computers and all.

7. Impressed by "Alexander the Last" ... Watch it now on IFC on demand ... Joe Swanberg raises the bar for the mumblecore crowd.

8. "Artois the Goat" was an entertaining romantic comedy about French cheese made in Texas.

9. "Garbage Dreams" doc about Cairo's garbage collecting social class ... Interesting but heavy.

10. "Modern Love is Automatic" ... sad & apathetic nurse turned dominatrix ... filmed in pastel colors with a death metal soundtrack, pretty awesome ... but with a creepy Todd Solondz-ish vibe.

11. "Drag Me to Hell" by Sam Raimi (in person, vaudeville-style) ... scary, scary flick ... with bats flying around inside the theater.

12. Special screening of Linklater's particularly awesome "Me & Orson Welles." That Efron kid actually has talent ... who knew?  Christian McKay may be the ghost of Orson Welles back from the dead.  I saw "F is for Fake" ...

13. "Best Worst Movie" ... "Troll 2" ... you can't piss on hospitality!  Nice.

14. "The 2 Bobs" ... Foul mouthed video game nerds find romance and foil jay chandresekar's spam plans ... Kinda funny, as long as you don't mind Christian bad guys.

15. "Observe and Report" is insane!!!

16. "Letters to the President" ... superbly interesting doc about Ahmadinejad and the power and perils of populism.

17. Rode the cow of awakening in "splinterheads" ... with shooter mcgavin, marty mcfly's girl, and the pretty hacker from transformers.

18. "Four Boxes" ... tricky but meh.

19. "Trust Us, This is All Made Up" ... every day, I say.

20. "Saint Mishbehavin'" ... Wavy Gravy is pretty awesome.

Sunday
08Feb2009

The First Review

Well, our new web home hasn't even been rebuilt yet, but the fruits of Dezmin's labors are being reviewed already.  One of the Bull's esteemed Editors Emeritus has posted a nice message about "The Key Party" and the music of Pittsburgh.  A scholar and a gentleman, that Reidy:

Filmed in the mumblecore aesthetic, the Key Party calls to mind surprise hit Once, which was two-fifths love story and three-fifths music film. The ratio in the Key Party is more like one-fifth love to four-fifths music, but that is, by and large, a good thing, as the bands and the quality of their songs are what make the film most compelling.

Read the remainer at Closer Look's blog-a-bull website:

http://www.closerlook.com/company/blog/pittsburgh

Thursday
17Jul2008

Welcome to Squarespace!

Welcome to your new Squarespace site!  Below is a video that shows you how to get started using our system.

The three most important things to keep in mind:

  • The buttons in the top right allow you to interact with your site in different ways.  For instance, the 'A' icon represents content mode, which lets you edit journal entries and other content.  The 'Cube' Icon represents structure mode, which lets you add and organize pages.  Each mode is explained if you hover on the icon.

  • You can drag and drop anything on your site.  Want to move a page?  Enter structure mode and drag the page to a new location.  You can even drag pages between columns or from a column on to your top navigation bar.  Need to edit a journal entry?  Enter content mode and click 'Modify' on the entry you'd like to edit.

  • Our styles are presets that you can make your own.  Entering style mode on the upper right will let you edit any color, width, column arrangement, or banner and more.  Most editing is done from the Fonts & Colors tab of the style edtior menu.

Want to remove this entry?  Enter content mode by pressing the 'A' on the upper right, then press 'remove' next to the title of this entry.