A lesson in Fair Use and irony all rolled into one.
Professor Eric Faden sat down and edited together a short film on copyright and fair use rules using small snippets of various Disney films. It’s a little disjointed sounding, but it gets the point...
View ArticleA sequel to “Tron” comes a step closer to reality.
I was a big fan of the original Tron and I can remember waiting anxiously for its release as it was a film for my people, video gamers. Ever since the release of the Tron 2.0 video game there have been...
View ArticleAmazon.com really needs to work on their product suggestion routines.
Got the following email just a few moments ago: We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Mercenaries or other games in the PlayStation 2 > Adventure category have also purchased...
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Disney yanks pre-teen underwear with the message “Dive In” printed on them.
Sometimes in the mad and heady rush of marketing the shit out of a popular bit of intellectual property the folks at Disney tend to overlook how something might come across as, shall we say, a tad...
View ArticleDisney releases trailer for “Race To Witch Mountain”
I can remember all the way back to 1975 and seeing Disney’s Escape to Witch Mountain in the theater. I was seven years old at the time it came out in March of that year. I don’t remember a whole lot...
View ArticleDisney knows it’s all about me.
I can’t believe my luck! Updated to move the video after the jump so it doesn’t autoplay every damn time I come to the main page. You have to admit that the ease in which things can be inserted into...
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Movies I’m Looking Forward To: “Tron Legacy” (#Blogathon)
I was a huge fan of the original Tron released back in 1982. I was 14 years old and it was a movie aimed at my people: computer geeks. Completely unrealistic fantasy nonsense and I loved every minute...
View Article“Magic Highway USA” from 1958 predicts what the future will bring.
I love reading and watching old predictions about what the future will bring. Sometimes they are startlingly close to the mark. However, most are like this excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show...
View ArticleMovies I’m looking forward to: Pixar’s “Brave.”
Disney released a small clip from Pixar’s upcoming animated feature Brave and it makes me want to see it now: My kind of woman.
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Far Right Religious Nuts: Disney’s “Frozen” will turn your daughters into...
I’ve not posted much about the far right Christians in awhile in part because I’ve tried to stop paying too much attention to them for the sake of my blood pressure, but sometimes I’m so amazed and how...
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