American Madness

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I Know What I Am Doing On May 22nd

Who Doesn’t Love the MPAA?

 

Image from Pirated Movie.

The Motion Picture Association of America hit a bit of a snag this week. In their continued efforts to attack movie piracy and cut down on P2P (That’s Person to Person) sharing on college networks they developed a “University Toolkit” asking universities and colleges around the country to download the software they [...]

Helping Josh Out

In order to give Josh a hand I’ve whipped up a couple of posts to help him out along the way. Okay, so far that’s not true. In fact, I’ve only written this, but really, I blame Josh.
The time I had scheduled to write before my fleeing departure from the US was interrupted when [...]

American Gangster = American Letdown

American Gangster has everything going for it (story, director, cast, budget) but manages to come across as an exceedingly well edited made-for-TV movie.
It’s a Sunday afternoon snoozer during which every scene contains almost no evidence that the characters are more than automotans or props. Few of the supporting cast have more than a few lines [...]

Movie Fans

I just learned about Criticker today.
Criticker is to movies what GoodReads is to books, for the most part. Though there is a bit more work required on your part here.
Basically you go in and rank a bunch of movies, after you have ranked 10, using their TCI (Taste Compatibility Index), they match you up with [...]

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