Oh how I wish I was up at SXSW! I've been really pumped up for the Fede Alvarez-directed remake of Evil Dead! Looks like the movie is going to deliver the awesomeness, especially for horror fans. Here's a round-up of reviews from around the web giving their thoughts on the film. After reading through these I'm excited as hell to see the movie for myself!
ShockTillYouDrop - "Evil Dead is slickly put together, but it is also vapid and vacuous. It wants to be an entertaining film because that's its job, but it's only willing to try so hard at it. For horror fans, that's probably enough. There is gore aplenty and over the top violence.
/Film - "Evil Dead veers between being a tweaked but faithful remake of elements of Raimi’s first two movies — like a greatest hits record that is also a collection of covers — and its own original film.
ShockTillYouDrop - "Evil Dead is slickly put together, but it is also vapid and vacuous. It wants to be an entertaining film because that's its job, but it's only willing to try so hard at it. For horror fans, that's probably enough. There is gore aplenty and over the top violence.
/Film - "Evil Dead veers between being a tweaked but faithful remake of elements of Raimi’s first two movies — like a greatest hits record that is also a collection of covers — and its own original film.
- 3/10/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Descendants is the Oscar-winners first film in seven years. Why's that? It's because Hollywood won't do adult drama
An almost Kubrickian seven-year interval has passed since Alexander Payne unleashed Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church on central California's vineyards in Sideways, remaking both their careers and sealing his own reputation as one of the most mordant and beady-eyed, yet sympathetic and humane observers of that poor benighted subspecies, the Middle-Aged American Male.
It turns out that time just ages Payne's wine more subtly in the cask, even if it may not help his pre-disastered protagonists grow up any quicker. The Descendants, set in Hawaii – a long way from Payne's native Omaha, Nebraska, where he set and filmed his first two comedies, Citizen Ruth and Election – finally offers a perfect showcase for the fiftysomething George Clooney. He plays Matt King, a self-admitted "back-up parent," who has to step up for...
An almost Kubrickian seven-year interval has passed since Alexander Payne unleashed Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church on central California's vineyards in Sideways, remaking both their careers and sealing his own reputation as one of the most mordant and beady-eyed, yet sympathetic and humane observers of that poor benighted subspecies, the Middle-Aged American Male.
It turns out that time just ages Payne's wine more subtly in the cask, even if it may not help his pre-disastered protagonists grow up any quicker. The Descendants, set in Hawaii – a long way from Payne's native Omaha, Nebraska, where he set and filmed his first two comedies, Citizen Ruth and Election – finally offers a perfect showcase for the fiftysomething George Clooney. He plays Matt King, a self-admitted "back-up parent," who has to step up for...
- 1/21/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
BankSimple’s dream team (left to right, from top): Thomas Lockney, engineer; Shamir Karkal, CFO; Bill DeRouchey, creative director; Josh Reich, CEO; Toby Sterrett, engineer; Brian Merritt, operations; Alex Payne, Cto; and Ian Collins, engineer.
Inside BankSimple's quest to put user experience above all else.
"Let's Start a retail bank." That was the email subject line that greeted Jerry Neumann, a venture capitalist, one morning in 2009. The sender: his former employee Josh Reich, a Wall Street denizen so fed up with his personal-banking experience -- the hidden fees, the confusing jargon, the poor customer service -- that he vowed to build a better one.
Alas, regulatory roadblocks prevent most people from bootstrapping a bank. So Reich and partner Shamir Karkal created BankSimple instead.
The New York tech startup, which in May launched a closed-beta version of its web app, aims to streamline the U.S. banking experience by decoupling it from actual banks.
Inside BankSimple's quest to put user experience above all else.
"Let's Start a retail bank." That was the email subject line that greeted Jerry Neumann, a venture capitalist, one morning in 2009. The sender: his former employee Josh Reich, a Wall Street denizen so fed up with his personal-banking experience -- the hidden fees, the confusing jargon, the poor customer service -- that he vowed to build a better one.
Alas, regulatory roadblocks prevent most people from bootstrapping a bank. So Reich and partner Shamir Karkal created BankSimple instead.
The New York tech startup, which in May launched a closed-beta version of its web app, aims to streamline the U.S. banking experience by decoupling it from actual banks.
- 6/22/2011
- by Tim Fernholz
- Fast Company
There's a sugary centre to all Darren Aronofsky's movies, argues John Patterson, and he's treading water; someone give him a RoboCop remake
I worry sometimes that Darren Aronofsky isn't really – how you say? – developing as an director. Halfway through Black Swan, his hysterical, overwrought – and thoroughly enjoyable – gothic ballet melodrama, I asked myself: "Wait, is this 42nd Street all over again? No, no, that was The Wrestler. This one's Pi all over again. With feathers instead of sums."
An artist is entitled to plunder his own past along with those of other great film-makers – as he does in Black Swan, a conflation of elements from The Red Shoes, The Turning Point, Polanski in his Repulsion/The Tenant frame of mind, and hoary old anecdotes about George Balanchine – but I'm waiting for Aronofsky to outgrow the molten core of triteness lurking at the heart of all of his movies. There was the largely unearned,...
I worry sometimes that Darren Aronofsky isn't really – how you say? – developing as an director. Halfway through Black Swan, his hysterical, overwrought – and thoroughly enjoyable – gothic ballet melodrama, I asked myself: "Wait, is this 42nd Street all over again? No, no, that was The Wrestler. This one's Pi all over again. With feathers instead of sums."
An artist is entitled to plunder his own past along with those of other great film-makers – as he does in Black Swan, a conflation of elements from The Red Shoes, The Turning Point, Polanski in his Repulsion/The Tenant frame of mind, and hoary old anecdotes about George Balanchine – but I'm waiting for Aronofsky to outgrow the molten core of triteness lurking at the heart of all of his movies. There was the largely unearned,...
- 1/15/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
With what must be the best motto in the history of banking--"Don't Suck"--banksimple has announced its forthcoming arrival onto the online financial scene by luring a key member to its team. Alex Payne waved goodbye to his job as Api lead at Twitter to become the bank's Chief Product & Technology Officer.
Online personal finance has proven to be a difficult business to master. Witness the fall of FiLife last month. Mint.com has not seen a significant increase in unique visitors since it sold to Intuit for $170 million in September. Thrive was sold to Lending Tree in February of 2009 in a rumored fire sale. And Geezeo dropped its consumer facing service in January. And while online banking works, for the most part, no one raves about innovation in that space.
But the optimism of Payne's vision of banksimple is, it has to be said, contagious. "Imagine, for a moment,...
Online personal finance has proven to be a difficult business to master. Witness the fall of FiLife last month. Mint.com has not seen a significant increase in unique visitors since it sold to Intuit for $170 million in September. Thrive was sold to Lending Tree in February of 2009 in a rumored fire sale. And Geezeo dropped its consumer facing service in January. And while online banking works, for the most part, no one raves about innovation in that space.
But the optimism of Payne's vision of banksimple is, it has to be said, contagious. "Imagine, for a moment,...
- 5/18/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
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