In today's world there is so much going on. Everyone likes to just relax for a while and go see a movie. The movies in this post are either ones I saw at the Sundance Film Festival over the past two years, or foreign films. I believe that independent and foreign films are some of the best films out there, because they don’t have the big studio heads telling them what audiences want to see. Read More »
Entertainment

The Writer's Strike
I was so inspired and proud that the writer's went on strike. I believe it had more to do with just wages as well. So many times the actors take all the fame and glory and leave little money and fame for the writers who put the lines in their mouths. It has a lot to do with our culture, we are a visual culture that puts a lot of importance on appearence. Read More »
Barack,Will There Really Be Change, Really

Activism... for all the wrong reasons
I've never been a big television fan. I have specific shows I enjoy watching, but our televisions are typically tuned to cartoons. In truth, I watch more cartoons now that I'm fully grown than I did as a kid. But, every once in a while, I will come across a show that I rather enjoy so I make a point of banishing the cartoons for a while and watching that show. Read More »

The Invasion of the Paparazzo...A New Epidemic
Without a doubt, Britney Spears is the main opic of all the Gossip magazines and television shows. At first I was with everyone else thinking, "This girl is nuts!", but now after seeing so many videos and articles where the paparazzi is overwhelming and downright suffocating the girl, I now feel a bit differently. Read More »
We Can Get More from Movies than Just a Few Popcorn Kernels
Movies have greater purposes than just mindless entertainment. I believe that we sometimes use movies to say things through the characters that we have wanted to say, but for some reason have held back. When the characters say them, we get a feeling that we're not alone and that the truth the speak is universal. Read More »
Does anyone remember the Beta format?
Answer me this do you remember the Beta format? If you do not it was a format really called the Betamax which is the 1/2 inch home videocassette tape recording format introduced on April 16, 1975. It was introduced by Sony which now has a popular new format you might know. For more info on BLU RAY format look at my previous entry. Read More »
HD-DVD and BLU RAY the death of freedom?
Does anyone truly think that they know which format will be the better in the long run? Should we believe that more memory equals better quality? Lastly should anyone in the great United States of America be pushed into buying one format over another? Read More »



