May 28th 2012
Will Smith still has it, but this movie is less about the aliens and more about the relationship between Agents J and K. Josh Brolin nails his performances as the younger Agent K. Smith and Brolin carry the weaker script that's more buddy-cop than alien blaster. There was only one scene that left me questioning [...]
May 28th 2012
In an interview in the New York Times, James Cameron (director, deep see explorer, Planetary Resources financial backer) says, I don’t find my inspiration in movies. I find my inspiration in life – in the natural world, in daily life. ... I’ve divided my time over the last 16 years over deep ocean exploration and [...]
May 28th 2012
I would argue that the success of Iron Man (and every latch-key movie that rides on it's success, including The Avengers) hangs on two things: the accuracy in which Robert Downey Jr transformed completely into Tony Stark and the intensity of the closeup shots inside the Iron Man suit that terrifyingly humanizes a character that [...]
May 28th 2012
The Fox Is Black has a clever weekly feature called Space Suit of the Week.
May 28th 2012
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the definitive Harry Potter story not written by JK Rowling. HPMOR is written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, a man that, despite not completing high school and having no other formal education, has spent the better part of his life so far researching and writing on Human Rationality and [...]
May 28th 2012
Anthony Fredianelli once wrote as lyrics for his song Invisible, When everyone's got a story to tell And everyone's got some pain So do you Everyone Dies is one of the few constants in life. There are many ways people die, and most are completely out of their own control. I believe Mr. Fredianelli was [...]