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I’ve been following the Tesla Motors story for about a year and a half now. When my wife had some points to burn on her credit card rewards program, she asked me if I wanted a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car?. I said yes. We watched it tonight. It made me sad, frustrated, angry - but I’m still glad I watched it. Has anyone had a successful electrical conversion of their hybrid car?

I loved Brad Bird’s The Incredibles, and in general I love Pixar films. So I was excited to hear about Ratatouille. Today I noticed not one bad review over here. Now how to convince the wife to go see a “cartoon” about a rat?

My brother, Eric, was the Director of Photography on a feature film called Things To Do. The film is directed, written and starring a couple of his friends: Theodore Bezaire and Mike Stasko. It was in a couple film festivals last year and has received some good reviews. If you’re in the Chicago area, go check it out on the Jan 12th weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Theater (apologies for the messy website!). I’ll be checking it out (for the first time) either Friday or Monday.

It’s also opening in Portland, Oregon this weekend too. And hey, if you’re in Canada, apparently you can buy it at Blockbuster as well as Amazon.ca, Chapters and Cinema1.

I’m a big fan of the Superman mythos ever since I was a little tot when I first saw the 1978 Superman movie at the drive-in theatre with my parents. I saw Superman Returns last week. Click To Read More...

Last night in an online chat with the Home Theater Forum, Warners Home Video announced they have finally settled their legal issues with Hearst Entertainment and King Features Syndicate and are planning to release all the Popeye starting in 2007. Here’s the press release. The cartoons will be given the royal treatment, just like the Looney Tunes and will be released chronologically. Click To Read More...

Here’s an article at Variety.com that gives a pretty positive revew of “Things To Do“, that movie my brother and his friends made last year. The film is currently competing at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah, which I mentioned a few days ago.

I noticed the Variety website might have some formatting issues (the article doesn’t start until halfway down the page in Firefox 1.5).

My brother, Eric, was Director of Photography on the film “Things To Do“, directed by Ted Bezaire and starring Mike Stasko. The film was shot in Windsor over last year and I know my brother and his colleagues have been working their collective butts off on it. The film will be competing at the Slamdance Film Festival which starts today. The Slamdance Festival takes place at the same time and locale as the Sundance Film Festival but is reserved for “first time filmmakers” only.

He flew out to Utah from Windsor very early this morning, where he’ll be staying at a rented condo with Ted, Mike and others for the week. I’m sure they’ll be networking scripts and whatnot while down there too. What an exciting time for them!

You can see some photos and a trailer of the movie at their official website, though I had to download and install the latest version of Quicktime to get the video to play. I’m really impressed with the trailer, it seems to have that wistful quality of a a good Wes Anderson film, which is perhaps fitting because I believe their co-star Daniel Wilson is cousin to Luke and Owen Wilson. Anyway, I can’t wait until I can get a copy of it. Kind of weird to see Mike Stasko acting on the “big screen”.

I’m really excited for them, I hope they win. Send your good mojo his way. Too bad they’re not blogging the experience…