Irrelevant But Awesome

Yesterday was the birthday of a great man. An amazing man. A man who contributed more to your movie going experience than you will probably ever know. This Man. John Williams, who turned 80 this year is responsible for seemingly almost every iconic film score. Anything theme you can hum just from hearing the title of the movie is most likely composed by Williams from Star Wars, to Indiana Jones, to Harry Potter to Jaws. It helps that Williams has had a long time working relationship with Steven Spielberg, having composed music for all but two of his projects. So even some of the less iconic Spielberg movies, Hook, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, aslo have Original scores by Williams. But it's these "lesser known" works that I want to touch on for a minutes. After all Williams has been nominated for an Oscar 47 times (winning five of them) which is second only to Walt Disney who holds the record at 59. (Ironically, thats the same number of times Williams has been nomina...

When i was a kid browsing through the shelves of the library, I found a comic book wedged between a couple of Far Side anthologies. Unlike any other comic I had ever read, this wasn't jokes told in a few panels. No, this was page after page all woven together to create one continus, epic story. This was Tintin. If you have never heard of Tintin before now, kindly educate yourself at once. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin Click some links. Learn a thing or two. Then come back when you can understand why this poster can create such excitement. I simply can not wait to see this movie. And after a few teaser images, the poster looks simply fantastic. Not only is it for a Tintin movie, but it actually looks like a poster I would like to have up on my wall (except for the 3D part but I can get past that) But thats not all the Tintin news we have for today. Not only do we have a poster, but whats more a trailer has premiered on Apple Trailers. While its only ...