Format wars are completely interesting – the HD-DVD vs Bluray brought back memories of the infamous battle of Sony’s Betamax vs JVC’s VHS. In this video, YouTuber engineerguy, gives some great reasons to why VHS won over the much superior first to market Betamax.
I’m a sucker for movie montages, and with the end of the year upon us, I enjoyed this particular montage from “The Sleepy Skunk.” How many of these did you see this year? Enjoy, and happy Wednesday!
On March 10, 2013, YouTube launched JASH. Boasting a comedy collective comprised of Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, Sarah Silverman and Reggie Watts, the channel promised original content delivered on a weekly basis. Most of the comedians brought videos that offered little surprise. Reggie Watts had fun and strange music, Sarah Silverman threw up content …
Boston’s Improv Asylum produced this funny Youtube short called, The Oscar Winning Boston Movie. I’d say it’s pretty well done, can you count the references?
Going into a lot of these films this week at IFFBoston, I’m never sure how I’m going to feel after. When I read the description and various PR on ‘My Suicide,’ I found myself quite intrigued. Suicide is a difficult subject to breach even today, and its great to see a film tackle this heavy subject, …
Broadly speaking, films tend to reflect the culture that produces them. For example, horror movies when looked at from a distance, plays on our cultural fears. George Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ while outwardly appearing as a zombie survivalist movie, took America’s fear of nuclear war and took it to a next step. More …
Turns out Reznor’s download experiment paid off: the Nine Inch Nails frontman went public with the financial results of his first release free of a record label, ‘Ghosts: Volume I-IV.’