NEGATIVE SPACE: Home theatre

You think I’m making this up? Check out Jim Emerson’s post on the Landmark multiplex in Los Angeles. If this doesn’t signal the slow death of the collective theatrical experience, I don’t know what will.

NEGATIVE SPACE: Phone rule

Katherine Heigl: the new Barbarella?

With the heated debate over the moral repercussions of Eli Roth’s latest blood fest currently dominating the blogosphere, it’s high time to switch over to a lighter and altogether more pleasant subject… You’ve probably heard by now that they’re planning a Barbarella remake. Some are screaming blasphemy already, but I’m all for it. Apart from [...]

NEGATIVE SPACE: Muslims in disguise

(Click on the image to see this cartoon slightly larger.) This is your last warning: Do not underestimate Michael Bay, or he’ll blow you up from 25 different camera angles.

NEGATIVE SPACE: Stuck in La Mancha

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The Kuleshov effect according to Steven Seagal

After discovering Dennis Cozzalio’s blog entry on the hilarious Chuck Norris Facts website, I was reminded of the chart below that I had filed under “Nonsense” on my laptop. Mr. Norris may come with a mean pack of one-liners (There is no chin under Chuck Norris’ Beard. There is only another fist), but mr. Seagal [...]

NEGATIVE SPACE: Another inconvenient truth

Sunshine and The Cinematic Experience

Sunshine, a sci-fi epic, directed by Danny Boyle, about a team of scientists sent on a mission to reignite a dying sun, is neither a mindless Michael Bay extravaganza nor a chin-strokey affair in the vein of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. It’s the cinematic oxymoron many of us have been waiting for: the thinking man’s action [...]

NEGATIVE SPACE: Torture porn victim

Embarrassing Movie Posters #11

God, this is truly embarrassing…