The Tree of Life and Creatures of the Southern Wild - indie nature

The most obvious similarity between these films is their use of close up, shallow depth of field, nice contrast, indie-movie shots of nature. Mmmm grass head's bobbing in the summer breeze, indie gold, cue the sound of crickets chirpping, nicccce.

How is a depressed middle aged man like an orchid?

Not in many ways as you might have guessed and, as you will find out if you watch Adaptation.

I don't know why this didn't occur to me before because (at the risk of imitating Napoleon Dynamite) this is pretty much my favourite film of all time. Every time I watch it it yields new insight, its funny and weird and clever and tragic. Don't let Nicholas Cage's goggle-eyed face put you off, he is awesome in this movie, convincingly playing the lead and his twin brother.

Into the wild

After slacking off for months and not seeing or reading anything that I could write about, after wandering the allegorical dessert in search of blog quenching environmental themes, I finally saw into the wild.

Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!

In the wake of the last preachy, square-peg-in-round-hole blog post here's a return to harmless nerd-dom.

Sneaking between genres like a metaphor hunting ninja, I will today look at the perception of the organic and natureness in the world of popular movies.

Star Wars, Shrek, Predator, Apocalypse Now

The Enemy

You may have noticed (but probably haven't) that there hasn't been a new post on this blog for a while. I can assure you that there have been a couple of drafts lurking behind the curtain, but they're so damn ugly they'll never see the light of day without Sharon Osborne's surgeon. This one's had a face lift so here she is.

God games and strategy - saving the virtual world

Do you remember when magazines could go on big diatribes about random gumpf because their readers had an attention span greater than an Alzheimic goldfish?... of course not, I'm just being old. I was just reading about the demise of PC Zone magazine (anyone ever buy that?) and lamenting the loss of it’s type of 90’s journalism, did you know Charlie Brooker started out writing for them? Anyway, it made me think, what about computer games!

Silent Running - the blog mixing pot!

I realised what a sad character I am when this opportunity arose. A chance to combine multiple elements of blog posts featured in a single movie discussion! Ohhhhhhhhhh yeah