How to sell a movie From the New York Times story about Stallone’s new Rocky Balboa , Peter Sealey, who is a former film exec-turned-marketing prof a UC Berkeley, offers: I...
Blood Diamonds Four years ago, I didn’t know anything about diamonds. Then I posted one ill-tempered rant about how annoying and even offensive I found the advertising for th...
Talladega Nights, in review Slate takes a spoiler-filled look at Will Ferrell’s Talladega Nights . We enjoyed the movie, and it’s consistently funny, but the thing that really struck m...
I was moderately amused by I was moderately amused by these fake video game movie trailers , but maybe you’ll like them more than I did…...
Cam owns "When Harry Met Cam owns "When Harry Met Sally" and "You’ve Got Mail" on DVD. Now, I will even go so far to admit liking "You’ve Got Mail" bu...
Just another reason Dan Bricklin's Just another reason Dan Bricklin ‘s a great role model for the tech industry, his ability to take valuable lessons from unlikely places. Case in point, his cu...
I am tormented by I am tormented by bad movie-pickers. One of the many advantages of living in Manhattan is that the cost of seeing a first-run Hollywood film is usually exorb...
Sampling the Oscars A semi-rhetorical question today : When is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar people) going to have to distinguish what constitute...