1. A movie you’ve seen most times in cinema.
2. Your most rewatched movie.
3. A movie you quote on a daily basis.
4. Favorite movie soundtrack.
5. Top 5 films of your favorite actor and actress.
6. Top 5 performances of your favorite actor and actress.
7. A movie storyline you wish you had actually lived.
8. A movie that reminds you of your mom.
9. A movie that reminds you of your dad.
10. Favorite movies from your childhood.
11. Favorite quote(s).
12. Top 5 favorite female performances.
13. Top 5 favorite male performances.
14. Favorite year for movies.
15. Your favorite movies from [insert year].
16. Favorite [insert actor/actress/director] movies?
17. List all you’ve seen from [insert actor/actress/director].
18. An underrated actor.
19. An underrated actress.
20. An underrated director.
21. An overrated actor.
22. An overrated actress.
23. An overrated director.
24. A film you wish you had seen on the big screen.
25. A movie you’ve seen that you think no one else’s here will have heard of?
26. Favorite movie characters.
27. A film that was better than the book.
28. Best remake.
29. Your first favorite actor.
30. Your first favorite actress.
31. Favorite animated film.
32. Your most anticipated films.
33. Last movie you were disappointed with.
34. Last movie that surpassed your expectations.
35. Actor in need of new agent.
36. Actress in need of new agent.
37. Share an unpopular film opinion you have.
38. Favorite Oscar win/speech.
39. Biggest Oscar snub(s).
40. Who do you think is overdue for another nomination/win?
41. How many movies have you seen (rough estimation, of course)?
42. A movie that made you go ‘wtf was that’.
43. A film that scarred you.
44. Most movies watched in a single day.
45. A film that always makes you cry.
46. A film that always makes you laugh.
47. Movies that you think everyone should watch (not necessarily your favorites).
48. A movie that took you a couple of viewings to appreciate.
49. A book you want to see adapted to the big screen.
50. A book you really, really, really don’t want to see made into a film.
51. Favorite child performance.
52. Favorite pre-code.
53. Favorite silent film.
54. Favorite coming of age film.
55. Favorite superhero film.
56. Best cinematography.
57. Movies you know you should watch but you can’t bring yourself to do it?
58. Favorite genres.
59. Least favorite genres.
60. Biggest movie pet peeve.

In TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET, R. Kelly’s classic hip hopera, Kels takes on the role of Sylvester, who has a simple one-night stand with a preacher’s wife and then ends up in a web of preposterous lies and a series of outlandish plot twists ranging from used rubbers on his bed to an asthmatic midget male stripper who likes to hang out with a white chick named Bridget. Throughout all of these misadventures, the drama is played as fiercely straight as R. Kelly, and the tale is told through rhyme after rhyme after rhyme.

Over the years, some audiences have hailed TRAPPED as the “Plan 9 From Outer Space of music videos,” while others have recognized it as the masterpiece from our generation’s greatest living R&B legend. But whichever camp you fall into, one thing is certain - there will be no better cinematic event this year than singing and dancing and playing with props in a theater full of other R. Kelly fans at the fully interactive R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along.

Brought to you by the Action Pack, the group made famous by creating dozens of interactive events for the Alamo Drafthouse, this Sing-Along event will take TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET and give it the full Rocky Horror experience, with subtitles on screen to make it easy to sing-along (or just keep up with the story if you’ve never seen this majesty before), and props like Barettas, rubbers, spatulas and more to help make the magic moments on screen come alive in the theater.

But that’s not all. Oh, no, there is soooo much more.

Because TRAPPED may be R. Kelly’s latest masterpiece, and the long-awaited premiere of NEW chapters this fall on IFC and IFC.com has given us the opportunity to create this cinematic event of the century, but R. Kelly has a full catalog of equally incredible music videos, and there’s no way we’re going to start the show without turning the entire theater into a full on dance party of awesomeness. To that end, we’ve also subtitled a collection of R. Kelly’s other greatest songs, so you can sing and dance along with Bump ‘N Grind, Sex Me, Ignition (yes, the remix), Step in the Name of Love, and more. Your mind may be telling you, “No,” but your body… your body is telling you “YeeeEEEEEEsssssSSS!” Go ahead and give into that impulse, and prepare yourself for all the glory of R. Kelly.

Life is good. Alamo Drafthouse is great. R. Kelly is better.

This is beautiful.

All 600 films of The Criterion Collection in 2 and 1/2 minutes!

Our school library is the fucking best. All bluray too :> (Taken with instagram)

It’s not an inherent fear of exposing parts of myself that I don’t want others to see that sometimes stutters my writing. I like to think of myself as an open book, at least to those that show an interest. I’m a private person about certain things, and in that sense I can be elusive, maybe even bordering on secretive. There are just some aspects to me that I prefer to keep to myself, lest I come across as either gloating or  attention-seeking.

What prevents me from writing at times is not writer’s block. Instead, it’s the overflow of ideas in my head that seem to get clogged, like a river’s flow coming up to a dam. Much like the dam, I try to filter out only what I want to be known, what I want others to know about. I pick from it what I think is best to offer to the world, and hope it is the right choice. In this sense, I’m not always here for myself. 

I’m a story teller. I always have been, and for the foreseeable future, always will be. It is what I love to do, and I do it in many different mediums. I’ve tried my hand at doodling comics, despite having no ability for drawing. I’ve tried my hand at songwriting, despite having no ability to wield an instrument. 

And, of course, I write. I write stories, poems, skits, prose and thoughts. All these, be they fictitious, fact-based, true to life or a mixture of all of the above, are my stories. They are who I am, they’re my identity. I pour myself into these stories, and to the same effect, in the way that they’re told. 

This is why I’ve long admired the art of film making, and long striven to be a film maker myself. Every nuance of cinema fascinates and excites me. There is no part of the process of bringing a story to life that doesn’t intrigue me. And, of course, the finished product is what a film maker is here to bring you, at least those with some sense of substance. They’re story tellers, and while some projects are more personal than others, creating them is a wholly therapeutic experience of which the audience happens to be participating in.

We storytellers, we’re not really here for us; I’m not here for myself. We’re here for you, to invite you into the river of ideas in our heads, hoping that if we could grab you, move you, make you feel alive, stir a reaction in you, just make you feel different than you did before with our stories, that we will have done something useful with our time here. Yes, there’s importance in the scientists and engineers and the like in the world, they keep us alive and advance our civilization.

One may understand the way the myriad of vessels and blood, autonomous functions that keep the human body alive in a purely biological sense… but if they don’t understand why we would want to live, then what’s the point? The point exists somewhere in the side of the artist to bring to life that which is not tangible: the intricate and wholesome beauty to the world around us, in every little moment both great and small. These moments are what a story teller wants to let you in on. These are the moments I like to write about, what I want to leave for others. Now, I’ll get back to it.

Every time I look up and read this it makes me smile. Steve McQueen has it right.

Martin Scorsese winning the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing in 2007

Watched The Artist earlier tonight… what a magnificent film. 

The two leads are extraordinary, never once do you feel like their style of acting is forced, it’s a perfect emulation of the era they’re representing. Acting without speaking, based solely on gestures and facial expression is an incredible challenge.

The music is wonderful, and the instances of sound as a plot device were very clever.