Did you know that Christmas classic Die Hard – yes this is a hill I am prepared to cinematically die on thank you very much; for it is festive in ways that transcend eggnog and tinsel – was based on the book Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp? Perhaps you Continue Reading
Comics review: The Weatherman (issues 1-3)
As cases of mistaken identity go, The Weatherman is a glorious technicolour-fabulous doozy. Well, mistaken in the mind of the weatherman himself, Nathan Bright, outrageously fun, good-naturedly lovable bad boy of Martian news some 750 years in the future where Mars and Venus are heavily-populated outposts of the human Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The surreal delights of Melt Down’s body-less boy
SNAPSHOT Melt Down was my senior year film at Pratt Institute. It’s a surrealist narrative story about a body-less boy who doesn’t want to go outside, among other wacky characters in a world where people melt from stress. (synopsis via Vimeo) There is no denying that life can be Continue Reading