It’s Friday night and I’m not out at a club, or a movie, or even the Olive Garden. No, I’m at home watching the biggest geek show on the planet, Battlestar Galactica. This is even worse than my fight against WoW addiction. Well…maybe not that bad, but it’s not good either. I have to admit […]
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This is the first year I was in town for the Ashland Film Festival, and I’m happy I finally got to attend. I just got back from SXSW a couple weeks ago, so I was missing film festival life.
Review of Fair Trade at Ashland Film Festival
Published April 8th, 2008 in Entertainment. 0 CommentsThe movie Fair Trade was playing along with 7,500 Miles to Redemption at the Ashland Film Festival and is the third documentary I saw at the festival. The Fair Trade movie is directed by Lauralee Farrer and follows the life of Tamara Johnston, a young women with a promising future who suffers the loss of […]
Review of The Sensation of Sight at the Ashland Film Festival
Published April 7th, 2008 in Entertainment. 0 CommentsI feel bad for what I’m about to say…but I didn’t like it. I wanted to like it. I feel like I should have liked it. I even went online to see if others liked it, which they clearly did. But something about this film just didn’t click for me.
Review of 7,500 Miles to Redemption at Ashland Film Festival
Published April 7th, 2008 in Entertainment. 1 CommentI have to admit to neglecting documentaries during the film festivals this year. I only saw one, Joy Division, at SXSW. And I saw one yesterday, Ideal World, at the Ashland Film Festival. Well today I saw two; Fair Trade and 7,500 Miles to Redemption.Â
Review of Ideal World at Ashland Film Festival
Published April 6th, 2008 in Entertainment. 0 CommentsIdeal World is an interesting documentary from Glen Thomas about the virtual world Second Life. Second Life, as most know, is a virtual world game created by a company called Linden Labs. The founder of Linden Labs, Philip Rosedale, created a fantasy world where you could create your virtual self (avatar) to look however you […]
Review of Outsourced from Ashland Film Festival
Published April 5th, 2008 in Entertainment. 1 CommentWhen reviewing the films that were going to be at this years Ashland Independent Film Festival, Outsourced was one of the few with a trailer on Apple’s site. The trailer was great, and it was one of the movies I was most looking forward to seeing. Â
Reviews of August Evening, The Cake Eaters and Eden at Ashland Film Festival
Published April 4th, 2008 in Entertainment. 2 CommentsThis is the first year I have lived in Ashland that I’m actually in town for the Ashland Independent Film Festival or AIFF as they like to call it. It’s a nice down shift from the fun of SXSW. Ashland is a far cry from Austin. But we do have some good movies playing this […]
Jericho was one of the lucky shows to get a second wind due to the support of fans. But it looks like that wasn’t enough to make it last past this season. Last night CBS aired the final episode of the post-apocalyptic drama.
Hotel Cafe Tour at Parish for SXSW in Austin Texas
Published March 24th, 2008 in Entertainment and Travel. 2 CommentsOf all the music events at SXSW this year, The Hotel Cafe Tour is the one I really wanted to get to. First off I should say that this was a marathon of a show. It started at 7PM and went on through to 2AM. I was lucky enough to have one of the very […]
