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Supporting Characters

aaron — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Directors have dreams and producers have products. One slaves over the same story for month or years to express a grand idea. The other counts pennies to deliver a concise product to earn a profit. Everyone else is in between, contracted to perform duties that will ultimately assist the director and producer, as a team and individually. Supporting Characters explores those people in control of a film once it leaves the director’s hands and before the producer delivers it for exhibition. Also, how the post-production process parallels our own lives.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

aaron — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:30:35 +0000

Star Trek: Into Darkness reviewed for the Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine.

PopCircle: Social Cataloging Convergence

aaron — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

I see many of my followers and the film critics that I follow on Twitter using a particular service called Letterboxd. It is a site that functions as another social media network where you can mark and review the films you’ve seen, follow those whose opinions you trust, and create lists however you like. It’s a great service actually. Especially the critics who have written long-form articles where several films are referenced and they can then post a list of those films on Letterboxd.

Upstream Color

aaron — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

It has been nearly a decade since Shane Carruth dropped his 2004 ultra-low-budget, ultra complex sci-fi time travel thriller Primer on the Sundance Film Festival. Between that time and now, he found difficulty working with studios and the weight of larger budgets when developing the now abandoned A Topiary. With a bad taste in his mouth, Carruth kept a low-profile and made Upstream Color with the same freedom he had with Primer, except this time he his technical experience is more pronounced.

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The Great Gatsby

aaron — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

I read The Great Gatsby for the first time a year ago in anticipation for the film’s late 2012 release, however the film was postponed until this past weekend. Yet, it was not until the tragic ending of the film that I reached an understanding of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, now considered a masterpiece. Although it made a soft landing during its initial publication, the novel was nearly forgotten by the time of the author’s death.

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Cinema Crespodiso

aaron — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Kumaré

aaron — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Evangelists dominate Sunday morning services in their mega-churches, yoga gurus instruct scantily-clad men and women to contort their bodies in heated rooms, and self-help authors coach their students to create image boards. This is just a small sample of people who lead religious or spiritual lessons to millions of men and women looking for their place in the world, or even their own bodies.

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Oblivion

aaron — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Oblivion reviewed for Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine.

By capturing some of the best plot ideas from more critically praised science fiction films, Oblivion relegates itself to be a pastiche of contemporary science fiction while working tirelessly to portray a sense of unconventionality. Even with the adequate special effects and rhythmic pacing, the film is at minimum entertaining, with just a sliver of relevance to current events.

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Iron Man 3

aaron — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000

How does a massive cinematic franchise return when it unlinks itself from the convergence of another colossal franchise? How does one re-assimilate into society after a major traumatic event, perhaps war, between countries, between galaxies? Iron Man 3 follows Tony Stark’s post-Avengers’ life, the role that disfigurement has on traumatized individuals, and the very real implications of military and terrorist-industrial complexes.

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Ceci n’est pas une pipe

aaron — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000