So a couple months ago I purchased a region-free blu-ray player from eBay. LG Model BPM25 (hacked by the distributor to be region free). Advertised to play any region blu-ray, any region DVD, on either NTSC or PAL format, on any television screen. And I paid close to $100 for it. Because I'm tired of … Continue reading Region-Free Blu-Ray Frustrations
Opinion
The War on Film Culture: Part 6: The Star Treatment (1910-1935)
Studio employees had little time or energy for social life except when they were not working, and in those circumstances they stuck as close as they could to other motion-picture people, hoping to find a new assignment. [...] After working together all day, players and directors often dined together, visited together. For many performers, whose … Continue reading The War on Film Culture: Part 6: The Star Treatment (1910-1935)
The War on Film Culture: Part 5: For the Children (1916-1917)
Utilitarianism (noun): A theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number -- Merriam Webster Paternalism (noun): A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights … Continue reading The War on Film Culture: Part 5: For the Children (1916-1917)
Repeating History: 1930s Communism vs. 2010s Globalism
There's too many men Too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go round Can't you see This is a land of confusion. This is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given Use them and lets start trying To make it a place worth living in. … Continue reading Repeating History: 1930s Communism vs. 2010s Globalism
The War on Film Culture: Part 4: What Shall the History Books Read? (1915)
Detailed account of the controversies surrounding the 1915 release of The Birth of a Nation.
The War on Film Culture: Part 3: Holding the Tongue (1913-1915)
The 1915 Supreme Court decision on film censorship.
The War on Film Culture: Part 2: The Fox and the Monopoly (1900-1915)
The fight against monopolies over the film industry.
The War on Film Culture: Part 0: An Introduction
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 So a while back, listening to the Slaughterfilm podcast (again), Forrest Taylor brought up the subject on how many were bitching about "the death of cinema." And Forrest basically stated that these complaints are nonsense. Well, this instigated a multi-step response from me … Continue reading The War on Film Culture: Part 0: An Introduction
My Theology
This is the blog post that will convince many of you that I'm insane. Well good. Being normal is overrated. Introduction Sometimes one wonders how a religion gets started. An individual doing an act many consider miraculous? One who believes they have been touched by God (or whatever) and decide to write about it? One … Continue reading My Theology
Entertainment Industry Nostalgia: March 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5BNgcwYhQ March 1990, the sequel to February 1990. An interesting month to be sure for that year. Steve Jackson Games gets raided by the U.S. Secret Service; a case that would evolve years later into something establishing the legalities of online speech still equating to speech; as in free speech. Carole Gist becomes the 1st … Continue reading Entertainment Industry Nostalgia: March 1990
The Anomalous Host 