I won’t hide it: I’m New York City born-and-bred. Concrete was my cradle, and carbon-monoxide-tinged air my mother’s milk (a strained analogy, but apt). Which is to say that I know squat about life on the farm. Don’t know how reap, don’t know how to herd, don’t even think of approaching me about animal husbandry. …
Tag Archive: Al Gore
Jun
27
Cinefantastique Spotlight: CARS 2
Kids love cars, and kids love CARS — that seems to be the calculation behind Pixar’s latest animated offering, CARS 2. Abandoning the original film’s theme that celebrated the romance of exploring off-the-beaten-superhighway U.S, director John Lasseter and crew have devised an espionage plotline for this sequel, with cocky racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and …
Feb
21
Iciar Bollain and Paul Laverty on EVEN THE RAIN
Columbus did not land in Bolivia. But a Spanish film crew has chosen that country to shoot their historic recreation of that event — and how some priests fought against the subsequent enslavement of the natives — because, well, it’s cheaper. That initial bit of convenient exploitation is only the start of the parallels in …
Feb
03
Michael Madsen on INTO ETERNITY
It is truly the gift that keeps on giving: The stockpile of nuclear waste that we continue to generate, year in and year out, useless for any practical purpose, but still deadly. In Finland, they think they’ve come up with a solution — it’s called Onkalo (literally Finnish for “hiding place”), a massive, man-made cave …
Sep
25
Cinefantastique Post-Mortem Catch-Up: 2001 & AVATAR
In case you were keeping track, yes, this episode of the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem should have posted last week. Life intervened, but the topics discussed are evergreen, anyway, so enjoy. The newest episode of the PM shall follow, almost immediately. This week’s edition of the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem Podcast delves into the immersive cinematic world of James …
Sep
06
Cinefantastique Podcast: 2010 Summer Wrap-Up
It’s a special Labor Day edition of the Cinefantastique Podcast. Eschewing the usual round-up of news and reviews, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski provide their assessment on the best and worst that this summer had to offer. What tops the list: SPLICE, INCEPTION, PREDATORS, or IRON MAN 2? And what lies at the …
Aug
27
Dan Stone & James Joyner on AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Paul Watson dropped out of Greenpeace because he felt they weren’t doing enough to protect whales from fleets hunting in supposedly protected seas. He founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and over the years has become the bane of whalers — Japanese in particular — by employing confrontational tactics that start at stink bombs (did …
Jul
31
Louie Psihoyos on THE COVE
Who the hell didn’t love FLIPPER? Cute ‘n’ cuddly (and how many sea creatures do you know get to claim those adjectives?), the titular bottle-nose dolphin of the classic sixties TV show was a real Up with People kinda mammal. You may not remember any of the specific episodes (didn’t most of them have to …
Mar
24
Episode 00: “A Sea Change” – An Interview with Filmmakers Barbara Ettinger & Sven Huseby
Okay, this may just be a test run to see if the entire podcast mechanism is up & running, but don’t say we don’t deliver value even then! In this, essentially our pilot episode, we feature an interesting few minutes with Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby, environmental activists and filmmakers whose documentary about the threat …
