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Warner Bloopers

02/22/10 01:37 PM Filed in: Play


Via Neatorama, a fun collection of Warner Bros. outtakes from the 1930s.

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Dickney DVDs

02/19/10 11:20 AM Filed in: Rant
Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Menu Nightmare!

Disney’s Fast Play (Or the Marketing of a Flipped Bit)


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My kids will be thrilled. Not me. Could care less. Really. Not even interested. Maybe I should get tickets now.

02/11/10 11:08 AM Filed in: Play

Toy Story 3 Trailer 2 in HD

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Chaplin before The Tramp

01/29/10 11:47 PM Filed in: Play
I always assumed Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp character was launched fully formed into film history. Not so. CNN has a great feature on the creation of a classic character.




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Get lost

01/20/10 11:08 AM Filed in: Play


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Mark your calendar

01/08/10 12:05 PM Filed in: Play
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Screening at midnight on 2/26/10 at the Fairfax Cinema in Los Angeles.

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Words that move (you)

12/31/09 07:07 AM Filed in: Play
“Lately I’ve become completely enamored with kinetic typography.”

That’s from Lynn La for an article she wrote at macworld.com. Kinetic typography is the art of putting words to movement. You’ve seen this in the opening credits of films like North by Northwest. Get moving.


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A Ballet of Destruction

12/03/09 11:50 AM Filed in: Play

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Tapdancing on Roller Skates

10/22/09 12:05 AM Filed in: Play
We've all had the experience. Work is crazy. Life is crazier. Gene Kelly makes it art.



Sweet fancy Moses.

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Hammer Time

10/15/09 03:06 PM Filed in: Play
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Growing up in Indiana in the early '70s the heady mix of my father's Playboy collection in his sock drawer and Hammer films at the State Theater provided plenty of, well, grist. Watching Chris Lee stalk a voluptuous lady Brit was thrilling and terrifying. Adolescent lust, indeed. Seems I wasn't alone.

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Roku

10/15/09 09:39 AM Filed in: Play
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Everyday I get closer to cutting the satellite mainline to my TV artery and going totally digital. The latest salvo was delivered by Netflix's Roku box. Streaming movies and TV shows via Roku beats Apple's AppleTV hands down. Worth checking out if you have a Netflix subscription (or even if you don't). Add in Amazon's video streaming offerings and it's harder to ignore. C/Net Review.

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Stanley Kubrick on The Zicree Simkins Podcast

10/15/09 09:16 AM Filed in: Play
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How cool is this? While reading John Gruber's excellent Daring Fireball I landed on his linked posting of a 1966 interview with Stanley Kubrick by Jeremy Bernstein. So, in true internet swipey-stealy fashion, I grabbed it for the podcast I do with Marc Zicree.

For cool things Kubrick, check this out. When you're done there, go explore here. Great site. Great webness.

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I'm There: The Red Band Trailer for LEGION

08/15/09 07:30 AM Filed in: Play
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Making Head with Ed and Ted

05/05/09 03:59 PM Filed in: Play
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Moon

04/10/09 08:35 PM Filed in: Play
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Trailer Fun

01/13/09 09:01 PM Filed in: Play
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R.I.P.

12/07/08 08:27 AM Filed in: Play
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R.I.P.

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Hey, I Wrote a Movie!

09/16/08 10:16 PM Filed in: Work
Eighteen months ago my wife was pregnant with twins. I wasn’t working. Well, not “working” working but there was a lot of baby-prep going on. Dan Myrick, a good friend, approached me with an idea for a movie. We kicked it around some and, since I had a little time before the baby shoes dropped, I wrote it. He produced it. Ben Rock directed it. Julia Fair did a terrific production rewrite when the twins arrived and I was pulled into two wonderful other directions. Here’s the trailer for ALIEN RAIDERS.



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I've been producing and writing for television since I was thirteen. Began getting paid for it at 28. I wrote about a babysitter's night on the town for Disney then shared some adventures with Brisco County, Jr. and Lois and Clark before heading off to work with three witches, aliens in Roswell, a Dark Angel, a vampire, a wizard and at a warehouse in South Dakota. For a bigger bio hit IMDB.com.
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