Author: Brent Lambert

Regarded as a triumph of the horror genre, William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” (1973) is still scaring the bahjeezus out of almost everyone who sees it.  The story starts at an archaeological dig in Iraq.  Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), an archaeologist, visits a site where a small stone is found, resembling a grimacing, bestial creature. Merrin travels onward to find the strange statue of Pazuzu, which has a head similar to the one found earlier.  Meanwhile, another priest, Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller), a young priest at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., begins to doubt his faith while dealing…

The Playlist revealed some interesting news on Darren Aronofsky’s long-gestating pic “The Tiger”: In an interview with Quien, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (“Babel,” “Amores Perros”) reveals that his previously announced adaptation of John Vaillant’s forthcoming non-fiction book “The Tiger” for director Darren Aronofsky and star/producer Brad Pitt is set to begin location scouting later in the year. “These days I’m traveling to New York to lend clarity to the last detail, in November would be doing a tour of Siberia to check locations,” Arriaga said. However, most intriguingly, he indicates that the the film will shoot next year and Angelina Jolie…

Big breakthroughs are happening in sound technology these days.  I found this article about Physicists Morgan Kjølerbakken and Vibeke Jahr, formerly of the University of Oslo, who were tinkering around with sonar equipment and had an epiphany. Their idea was to install an array of 300 microphones with one video camera to create a technology that enables for ZOOMING IN to any person or group of people and pick out their conversation in large venues like concert halls and stadiums: The AudioScope software then calculates the time it would take for sound emanating from that point to reach each microphone…

I remember the first time I watched “The Wizard Of Oz” (1939) set against the sound of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973) and being absolutely mesmerized.  I watched it and listened to it as if I was the first person to ever realize it.  The pairing of the two have a few nicknames: ‘Dark Side Of The Rainbow’, ‘Dark Side Of Oz’, or ‘The Wizard Of Floyd’. This pairing produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video-like experience comes from a combination of the album…

There’s just nothing else like this song. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7986148[/vimeo]

My friend Andrew Fisher is gettin’ shit done in L.A.  I worked with Andrew on “Beastly” a little while back and can attest to his zen-like masterful qualities.  I can also attest to his good choices in which pubs are best to watch the Lakers in the Playoffs and allowing me and my boys to hijack Mary Kate Olsen one long night in June for a 3-hour beers & wings conversation about personal style and who had the best New Years stories.  Andrew and his team are somewhat in ‘Playoffs’ mode themselves and are currently in the early stages of…

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an American-British actor who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television. He is known for his roles in the 2007 films Lions for Lambs and Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and the David Fincher drama The Social Network. He will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the franchise’s 2012 reboot. Garfield started taking acting classes in Guildford when he was fifteen, and appeared in a youth theater production of Bugsy Malone. He also joined a small youth theater workshop group in Epsom, and began working primarily as a stage actor. In…