Posts Tagged → THEY ARE ACCOUNTANTS
Review: The Social Network
![The Social Network [Photo - Columbia Pictures]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/socnet1.jpg "The Social Network [Photo - Columbia Pictures]")
A David Fincher film is an event.
Seven was my very first Fincher film way back in 1995. There are scenes and images from that movie that are burned into my memory. But, like many others, it wasn’t until 1999’s seminal Fight Club that I truly became enamored with him.
Like for many of the impressionable youth of my age at the time, Fight Club was and remains a milestone film. It came out at just the right time alongside flicks such as The Matrix and was a gateway drug into cinema for a generation raised on video game consoles, Napster and the Internet (née Interbutt). READ MORE!
Review: Splice
![Vincenzo Natali's Splice [Photo - Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Splice_wall04_1024x768.jpg "Vincenzo Natali's Splice [Photo - Warner Bros.]")
What we pass on to the next generation is not only what we find encoded in our genes. We pass on our memories, legends and aspirations. But we cannot forget that we also pass on our failures, our fears, and the darker sides of humanity. At least, this is what I gathered from the ending of Metal Gear Solid 2, the only Metal Gear game I’ve played. I stopped paying close attention to the plot after I got in a swordfight with the President of the United States who is dressed in a biomechanical tentacle suit in front of a statue of George Washington.
Vincenzo Natali, the mind behind the brilliant and underappreciated Cube, plays with the same themes in Splice. It dabbles in ideas like nature versus nurture and the question of what we do as parents to our offspring and our families. Splice takes these ideas, tosses them into a centrifuge, and fucks the result on the cold barn floor.
Oh by the way, there will be spoilers in this review. Sexy spoilers. READ MORE!
1927 Paramount Studios Map of California Shows You Where to Find the Rest of the World
![1927 Paramount Map of California [Source: Flickr - Ambrosia Voyeur]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/1927-california-filming-locales.jpg "1927 Paramount Map of California [Source: Flickr - Ambrosia Voyeur]")
I actually recently read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Love of the Last Tycoon, and adored it. It’s basically The Great Gatsby plus golden age Hollywood, and now I’ve just reminded myself that I need to watch Elia Kazan’s film version starring Robert DeNiro and Jack Nicholson (!). All I could find on YouTube is this wonderful ditty in dire need of some spell-check.
This also reminds of of RKO 281. Oh, Liev Schreiber, what have you done to deserve this?
Space may be the final frontier, but it’s made in a Hollywood basement
[Source: Flickr - Ambrosia Voyeur]