Hey, That’s My Name

Here’s the video of me on RT, it’s a fairly quick 5-second appearance of me ragging on motion capture a bit.

The show airs at 9:30pm/Central tonight on Current. It will also be up on Current.com tonight and should be up on iTunes and Hulu some time this weekend. I’ll be appearing in the review segment on A Christmas Carol, which I liked but had some problems with. Watch my uncut video review after the jump.

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I’m insanely tardy on this because, well, I just fail. But I’m posting it here now, so that’s cool, right? Anyhoo, I don’t know if you’ve heard of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, but it’s this quirky, funny movie review show that airs on Current (Al Gore’s network), in addition to being available on Hulu and as a podcast on iTunes.

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It’s been entirely too long since my last update here. There are several reasons for this, but they’re all pretty lame and uninteresting. So, in my return to the world of my personal blog (I have been blogging regularly at Time Out Chicago) I decided to introduce a regular series that I’ve been intending to begin for awhile. Allow me to welcome you to the inaugural “Watch Report,” in which I’ll speak a little about the various movies and TV shows I’ve watched this week. I’m definitely starting big, as looking back, I noticed that I’ve watched a LOT of stuff this week. Continue Reading »

I’ve been browsing several reviews of State of Play over the past few days and have noticed several writers noting that the film takes the position that newspapers need to save the world from the big bad blogging. This has bothered me because I think the film’s position is much more nuanced than that. It’s without a doubt, a love not to journalism. You only need to stay through the end credits, which a run over a Mr. Rogers-style reel of the newspapers being printed and carried off in a truck, to feel the sentiment that the filmmakers have for the medium. Still, I think the film contained jibes for what for newspaper journalism has become, as well, as was evidenced in a scene where a character holds up a trashy and gossipy front page and demands to know why their paper didn’t have this story. And it is with that, that I share this interview Ben Affleck had with Rachel Maddow last night in which he notes some of the mistakes that newspapers have made over the years and why the public might not only be turning to blogs because they’re free: