Writing

There’s more to Bullitt than just that car chase, even if there doesn’t need to be—the famous 110-mile-per-hour Charger vs. Mustang duel (where the shocks blow out and the cars bounce over the hilltops like skateboarders) comes at you like the stargate in 2001 earlier that year. Bullitt is so 1968 it hurts, but, even […]

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My Mad Men predictions

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 Writing

[Obviously, Spoiler Warning up to and including the most recent episode (Season 5 Episode 7, “At The Codfish Ball”)] At the beginning of the season—i.e. before the Madchen Amick dream sequence, before Heinz (ironically, “Some Things Never Change”) and before the bordello sequence—I predicted that 1) Don will be 100% faithful to Megan and that […]

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M. Night Shyamalan movie

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 Writing

This is the M. Night Shayamalan film in which people’s heads are falling off. You see people sitting around on park benches, in offices, driving etc. and their heads fall off. Pause and then a spurt of blood etc; they fall over. More people’s heads fall off. M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN (dressed as priest): “My entire […]

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