How Rachael Ray’s TV Career Was Propelled by Radio
Radio is an important medium to use in an author’s book marketing campaign. Radio has the power to make a star too - as in the case of Rachael Ray, whose star was born due in great part to key radio interviews that were heard by members of the Today Show and the Food Network. The bottom line, radio works, radio is a great medium.
Why Twilight is Actually a Good Movie
I have seen the highly anticipated adaption of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga, Twilight, four times in theaters. Yes, I realize that this means I have basically shelled out 40+ dollars to see Robert Pattinson stare broodingly at me for two hours. Yes, I have spent 8+ hours that I should have been using to study for my finals watching scenes that I’d both seen and read before.
Avatar Review - Believe the Hype
So, what did the most expensive film ever made by one of the best director of our generation look like? Awesome. All the press out there had all talked about the special effects, how the seamless, colourful, fantasy world was pushing the limits of the computer technology, and how the 3D experience will “change the way we watch movies” forever, and it pretty much satisfied all that and more.
Fun TV Shows to DVR
I’m a television addict. When I’m not online, I’m watching TV, and come to think of it I’m not sure how my eyes are still intact after viewing so many screens for so long! Anyway, I live by my DVR, which allows me to watch any television show or movie just about whenever I want to.
Film Review - Hero
For an epic martial arts movie, Yimou Zang’s Hero is surprisingly short. But despite clocking in at just 95 minutes, the film achieves a grandness of scale and a poetic visual beauty that many films twice it’s length fail to match. Set two thousand years ago in ancient China during a time of disparate warring kingdoms, the plot follows the nameless hero of the title as he is summoned by the king to relay his account of how defeated the ruler’s three most feared would-be assassins.
The Best 3D Movies of All-Time
It’s finally beginning to happen. After decades of tinkering with the technology, the prevalence of 3D technology is taking hold throughout the entertainment world. We’ve seen both movies and concerts (and even sports events) produced in three dimensions, giving viewers an added layer of adventure when it comes to enjoying anything they see.
A 3D Story
Let’s start out by talking a little bit about the evolution of 3D. You may have heard the news recently about 3D Footage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth shot back in 1953. You might think, wow, 3D was around way back then. However, if you are a 1950’s film fan, you might remember Vincent Price in the House of Wax or Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder originally presented in 3D.
Film Review - All About Darfur
Taghreed Elsanhouri’s first feature length documentary, All About Darfur, serves as an intimate portrait of ordinary Sudanese people whose lives have been affected by the decades long civil war and the current crisis in the Darfur region of the country. Rather than repeat the same harrowing images of humanitarian catastrophe as shown in the western media, Elsanhouri’s film brings a close focus on the opinion and experience of the individual, and on the conflicting views of Sudan’s splintered culture.
(Mis)representations of Mental Illness in Film
Mental illness as depicted in the cinema is rarely reflective of reality. Who wants to pay a fiver to watch the drudging melancholy of depression, the incoherent confusion of schizophrenia, or the sad isolation of an anxiety disorder?
Film Review - The Elephant King
Seth Grossman’ s debut feature film combines sumptuous visuals with a gritty young-American-travels–to-east-Asia-to-find-himself narrative. Set in Thailand, The Elephant King is both beautifully shot and precisely executed.
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