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Sundance catalog is out

December 29, 2006 Sundance, The Nines

The catalog for this year’s Sundance Film Festival came this week, which was my first chance to see what everyone else’s first impression of The Nines would be. The festival organizers write the descriptions for the films, so you’re sort of at their mercy. Fortunately, John Cooper wrote up a very nice blurb for The […]

Seeing The Nines at Sundance

December 23, 2006 Projects, Sundance, The Nines

I’m not going to suggest that devoted readers fly thousands of miles to see The Nines at Sundance. But I’m not going to not suggest it. I’ve long been of the mindset that there’s no reason to go to Sundance unless you have a movie there. I haven’t been since Go debuted there in 1999. […]

Lost Rooms and American Zombies

December 18, 2006 Prince of Persia, Projects, Psych 101, Television

When other people have the same ideas and act on them, it helps me clear my slate.

I would have gone with “catfishscan”

December 16, 2006 Big Fish, Projects

This from Daniel Wallace, the author of Big Fish: Big Fish is taking over a small town in Alabama (link). And in this spirit when, just the other day, someone caught another one of those big catfish you hear about. They took it to the hospital and put it under a catscan. I am not […]

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