A while back I was possessed by Spielberg’s blend of “courage and stupidity” to compete in a competition wherein contestants had to write, shoot, edit, and deliver an entire short film in 48 hours. It was thrilling and exhausting, at times it was frustrating, but my team and I did it. We didn’t win […]
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THE 48-HOUR FILMMAKING SURVIVAL GUIDE
September 19th, 2013 
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BEYOND THE THRESHOLD OF DISBELIEF
September 12th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo “No #!%?ing way can anyone outrun a boulder without losing his hat!” That was my dad’s reaction to the first 15 minutes of the first Indiana Jones film. The first Indiana Jones film! Hearts plucked out of living victims. Centuries-old knights guarding Holy Grails. Escaping nuclear explosions in fridges. My dad never even made it […]
PROJECTIONS FOR THE PROJECTION BOOTH
September 5th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Welcome to The Projection Booth! What is The Projection Booth? Good question. Before uncovering the answer, let’s examine some definitions.
GAME SHOWS AND REALITY SHOWS ARE NO-SHOWS FOR ETHICS
August 26th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Does anyone these days have the right to be shocked by accusations of reality shows being rigged? That thought occurred to me recently while catching up with a friend over coffee. She spent the summer backpacking across Europe (people still do that) in order to take a break from “everything American and become more worldly.” […]
“YOU WALKING TO ME? I SAID ARE YOU WALKING TO ME?!”
August 16th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Movie trends come and go like any other industry. Westerns are popular for a few years, then sci-fi, then fantasy. Right now we’re up to our necks in vampires. Movie posters, known in Hollywood as “one-sheets,” experience their own trends. For a while it was the Stars-Standing-Back-To-Back model (Mr. & Mrs Smith, Two Weeks Notice, […]
THE LONE RANGER (A Heat-Induced Film Review)
July 4th, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo Here’s the thing about summer blockbusters – they come out in the summer. You don’t need a masters degree in film to figure that out. Due to release dates and high concept genres, these movies tend to get judged as mindless entertainment — Avengers, Star Trek Into Darkness, Hangover III, etc. They arrive with pre-conceived […]
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN 3 (Film Review)
May 3rd, 2013 Steven D'Arcangelo To say Marvel’s Iron Man 3 is better than Iron Man 2 is the understatement of the year. The sequels may occupy the same world but, in terms of quality, they’re not even in the same ballpark. The golden Avenger’s third solo outing restores the series to the glory of the original and, in some […]
