Warner Brothers is at least considering Ben Affleck to direct their Justice League movie. Deadline is denying the story, but frankly they’re not as trustworthy as Variety. And while the internet has responded with some typical Affleck-backlash that the same guy who once starred in Gigli is going to direct such a key project. I’m [...]
When our Hollywood protagonist needs to access a secure system, they are able to use deductive reasoning to magically guess any password they need. With a little logic supposedly you can figure out exactly what password anyone is using in a given moment. And while some people choose poor passwords (the type an idiot might have [...]
Here is your latest bowl of cranial chunks. Grab a spoon and dig in. Peter Jackson has made it official. The unnecessary cash-grab of stretching the 300 pages of The Hobbit into two movies is now even more unnecessary as it will become three movies. We already knew that he was adding characters into The [...]
BSIG doesn’t run articles over the weekend (at least at the moment), so we are late to report that it was somewhat suddenly determined that July 29th (Wil Wheaton’s birthday) should also be known as Don’t Be a Dick Day. To Wil, I’d say happy day-after-your-birthday (happy afterbirth?). Celebrity birthdays are not necessarily more notable [...]
James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer collaborated on the scores for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. For The Dark Knight Rises, Hans Zimmer is finally allowed to fly solo and he soars. Their work on Batman Begins was atmospheric and at times evocative of being in a cave surrounded by bats. In that regard, [...]
Christopher Nolan didn’t set out to create a Batman trilogy. Frankly, I’m not sure he tried making a single Batman movie (more on that later). In the forward to The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy, he writes: People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you [...]
Quentin Tarantino is a student of film, like most directors. But he truly loves film in a way that transcends most directors. It is clear in his interviews, and it is clear in his work. He lifts quite liberally shots and styles from others in homage. All artists borrow, and it takes an encyclopedic knowledge [...]
Correlation is not causation. The phrase is bandied about the internet commonly, sometimes in the improper context. It isn’t the a “get out of jail free” card in arguments that people make it out to be, even though it does succinctly point out a common logical fallacy. An 18-year old Taiwanese teenager died playing Diablo [...]
Paul McCartney’s new music video “My Valentine” ran in front of The Intouchables when I saw it. Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman starred in the video that Wally Pfister shot, proving that McCartney is still relevant at the age of 70. The song was decent, but not memorable and my mind immediately wondered what new [...]
Championships matter. When everything else is forgotten about a season (players, regular season games, stats), championships remain for all eternity. There is a good chance you can’t name the five starters from the Celtics 1966 championship team, or who lost to the Celtics that year (the Lakers in seven in a nail-biter if you must [...]
The fine folks at Penny Arcade and Zeboyd Games have released episode 3 of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. In and of itself, that doesn’t seem exceptionally notable. It isn’t the first time a website transitioned into episodic gaming. The game has been adequately reviewed, and that would be reason for me not to [...]
The Weinstein brothers have been discovering and sharing amazing films we likely wouldn’t have seen otherwise since 1979. Last year Harvey Weinstein turned a silent French film into Oscar gold though it had limited success domestically and abroad. In this case, Weinstein is encouraging the United States to take a second look at an established [...]