For every dollar I spend going to see Ender’s Game, I vow to spend twice as much in a donation to a gay rights group. Won’t you join me?
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And here are the winners of the Razzies
In all the hubbub of the Academy Awards ceremony, we didn’t forget the other awesome awards which were given out last night. Yes, we’re talking about the 31st annual RAZZIE® awards, the winners of which were announced last night.
Big “winners” included The Last Airbender which took home the awards for Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay (M. Night Shymalan), Worst Supporting Actor (Jackson Rathbone), and Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D.
Check out the entire list here.
Trisha’s Link of the Day: iPhone + 24-hours without sleep = awesome comics story
As a writer, I love the concept and the results which come from the annual 24-Hour Comics Day events; this year’s batch was no exception.
For the non-comics geeks reading this, I’ll explain briefly: Back in 1990, comics author, theorist, and now-luminary Scott McCloud dared his fellow comics artist friend Steve Bissette to draw a 24-page story in 24 hours. The aim of the exercise was for Bissette to become a faster artist, because as anyone who wants to break into the comics business as an artist knows, nobody likes to work with someone who can’t meet a deadline. And just because McCloud is the kind of man who puts his drawing tools where his mouth is, he decided to create a story under the same constraints.
The results can be viewed here, and over the last two decades, many other comics creators have taken up the gauntlet of the challenge. With the advent of the Internet, creators have also begun blogging about their process and it has now truly become a worldwide event which drawn in new participants every year and spawned a book or two.
When it comes to innovation in comics creation, though, I think that this year San Antonio, Texas artist Lea Hernandez took home the prize in coolest and most tech-savvy comic, with an entry that I think she’s calling “Jackwagon,” which she created entirely on her iPhone, courtesy of an application called Brushes.
To read it in its entirety, click here (and note that it’s not entirely safe for work).
Trisha’s Take: Life as We Know It review
Life As We Know It (2010)
Directed by: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas
Rated PG-13 for sexual material, language and some drug content
There are a lot of things that can make me cry while watching a movie. When I saw Return of the Jedi for the first time in the theaters, the climactic battle between the Ewoks and the Imperial soldiers traumatized me because the little innocent fuzzy creatures who didn’t really undertand about war were dying. (Of course as an adult, I have to wonder exactly what that very large net was supposed to catch, and what the Ewoks were gonna do with whatever they usually catch.)
Now that I understand what real pain, heartbreak and loss are, whenever I sense the real thing in a movie, it will instantly reduce me to tears even faster than before. One such moment came early during the preview screening of Life As We Know It, and it affected how I viewed the whole movie. Continue reading “Trisha’s Take: Life as We Know It review”