American Madness

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At Least He Never Co-Starred with a Chimp

The bloggers here at AmericanMadness (and Peter Shankman from PR Differently) occasionally share articles with each other over email, earlier this week we were “discussing” Fred Thompson in the context of the article “Fred Thompson: Desperate Republicans Cheer for a Reagan Wannabe” posted on AlterNet.
Of course his various television and movie roles were discussed (including [...]

Let’s Go Out To The Movies: Cinema16- European Short Films

Ever wonder how that favorite director of yours got his start? Well, most likely he made a short film or two as a sample reel, got noticed and found a major studio to fund him (or independent producers), well, of course unless that person is Michel Gondry or Spike Jonez- They took the music video [...]

Coming Soon to A Theater Near You

Wes Anderson and Michel Gondry are 2 directors that I really like and coincidentally they both have new movies coming out.
As I am still getting back into the swing of things and totally jet lagged from Tokyo, my posts this week are going to be on the lighter side. so here are the previews for [...]

For the Love of Money

I read a few days ago that Michael Bay was taking a stand against media-giant Paramount and their recent decision not to release any of their films on Blu-Ray, but solely on HD-DVD.
Michael Bay basically said that he directed movies for people to see and that he wanted the most people to be able to [...]

Johnny 5 is Alive!… And in Iraq

Who remembers the movie Short Circuit? You know, the one about the robot with a shoulder-mounted laser who gets zapped by lightening and becomes a sentient catch-phrase-spewing robot with a shoulder-mounted laser who moves in with Steve Guttenberg and produced a number of (mostly straight-to-video) sequels.
Well, the army was inspired and produced 3 of their [...]

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