Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica explores the details of what is easily the most popular typeface in the world. It is a fascinating look at not only the prevalence of the Helvetica, but also how it’s use informs about our culture. The film is gorgeously shot, is well edited, has a great soundtrack, and features a [...]
Following in the footsteps of Paramount Vantage, Fox Searchlight has put up a bunch of screenplays to their more reputable films (that they hope will get Oscar nods), and also the script to The Darjeeling Limited, which Jackie so correctly noted felt like “Wes Anderson trying to make a Sophia Coppola film” (understandable, considering two [...]
Writing is neither noble nor great. You struggle to create something out of nothing, which most people will then judge superficially and with total disregard for the blood, sweat, and tears you lost in creating your work. Worse, they’ll judge you based on their perception of the subjective quality of the work you produced (as [...]
Behold the trailer for the upcoming Jet Li/Jackie Chan martial arts extravaganza:
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It looks like the most reputable part of this project is that it stars the kid from Sky High. That is to say, this film looks completely disreputable.
If you were to go back in time and tell a 10 year-old Nima that in the [...]
Around 1995, when I first got on the Internet, I found a hilarious story about an encounter between the Transformers and their cheap K-mart knock-offs, the Gobots. Every now and then I check the web to see if it’s still floating around, and it doesn’t seem to be, which is a shame.
So, now that I [...]
GreatWhiteSnark.com is turning out to be the Internet repository for awesomely geeky wedding cakes, with a specific focus on cakes in the Star Wars family. Among the cakes GWS has found is a hilarious Yoda ((I’m pretty sure that’s muppet-Yoda, not CGI-Yoda, which is a good thing.)), and a very accurate Jabba the Hutt.
However, [...]
Shortly after starting the blog I had a nifty idea for a webcomic about a pair of insects living in Heaven: Angel Ants. I started posting the adventures of Grayson Eleanor Antly and Redford Javier Antington III — or Gray and Red to their friends — here in March, and by May I’d spun it [...]
That’s it, I’m convinced Heroes creator Tim Kring is murdering my soul on purpose, and that the success of the first season of the show was accidental. Great White Snark passed along an interview Tim Kring just gave TV Guide, and is has filled me with all kinds of Godless rage.
From the interview:
Immortal Adam was [...]
Seriously, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Yeah, I get that Tim Kring admitted that he screwed some things up and that the show’s writers were probably worried about going on strike, but is anyone at NBC even watching this show to see if it makes any sense?!
1. What the Hell Happened to the [...]
