Posts Tagged ‘Steve Jobs’
Film Review – Space Jam: A New Legacy
The cringe runs deep throughout Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021). Not only for the non-stop nostalgia factor, but for how Warner Brothers shamelessly pats itself on the back. The film constantly references its parent studio, inserting characters and scenes from a vast array of titles. We…
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Film Review – Ready Player One
The road that brought Ready Player One (2018) to the big screen was a circular one. We start with Steven Spielberg, the most successful director in cinema history. His work, from Jaws (1975), E.T. (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Jurassic Park (1994)…
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SXSW Film Review – Silicon Cowboys
When I think about the history of computing, most what I know has to do with Microsoft, Apple, and Xerox PARC. (If you are interested in the subject, and you should be because it’s a fascinating, I recommend Robert X. Cringely’s Triumph of the Nerds:…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Film Review – Steve Jobs
It’s strange to see recent history of which you have actual concious memory portrayed on screen. Boyhood had that effect, where you were struck with nostalgia for a mere 5 years ago. And that effect does happen in the new film Steve Jobs. Pretty much…
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Film Review – Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is everything you want in a biopic documentary: able to look at the subject through a human lens, able to acknowledge the faults as much as the success of the person, and able to realize that the complexity of an individual can never be…
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SIFF Interview – Bonnie Arnold – How to Train Your Dragon 2
Spencer interviews producer Bonnie Arnold from the animated adventure How to Train Your Dragon 2 at SIFF 2014.
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Pixar Movies – Video Podcast #265
In honor of the release of Monsters University, Spencer and Greg discuss Pixar’s movies.
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