[As you probably already know, starting on Thursday, August 21, Fxx is running the Every Simpsons Ever Marathon, running through all 552 episodes of "The Simpsons," plus "The Simpsons Movie." To aid in your viewing process, Team HitFix is selecting our favorite episodes from each day, plus an episode or two that you can skip and use as a bathroom or nap break.] Day 4 of Fxx's Every Simpsons Ever Marathon really is where the show hits its peak. It's possible that it can't equal the heights of Day 2 and Day 3, but there's a depth to the episodes between "Round Springfield" and "Grade School Confidential" that no other day can top. How good is this day? I even like the big Abe episode, "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish.'" How good is this day? We didn't even consider "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" and it includes the immortal line, "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." And we considered, but didn't write up "Homer's Phobia," with John Waters in one of the show's best guest vocal turns. And nobody even mentioned "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" even though Homer's Guatemalan insanity pepper hallucination is an aesthetic highlight.
- 8/24/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Kailey Marsh is a co-founder and literary manager/producer at Faction M with her business partner Nima Maleki. Kailey graduated from the Art Institute of California-Los Angeles and interned for Ozla Pictures (the company behind The Grudge movies, among others) and then worked as an assistant for Steven Jay Schneider, producer of Paranormal Activity. She was an assistant at the management/production company Circle of Confusion before becoming a manager in her own right.
Faction M has most recently been involved in producing the feature film The Day, currently in post-production. Check out the Facebook page for all the details about the film and the teaser.
With the advent of The Black List, a collection of the top unproduced screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, Kailey invented The Blood List, which compiles the best unproduced horror scripts. She was recently included in a Hollywood Reporter article examining this listing phenomena.
Faction M has most recently been involved in producing the feature film The Day, currently in post-production. Check out the Facebook page for all the details about the film and the teaser.
With the advent of The Black List, a collection of the top unproduced screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, Kailey invented The Blood List, which compiles the best unproduced horror scripts. She was recently included in a Hollywood Reporter article examining this listing phenomena.
- 5/9/2011
- by Anthony Vieira
- The Film Stage
In a column published by Variety recently, David Cohen contends that the economy is to blame for the relevant sparseness of VFX-driven cinema good enough to fight for Oscars at the end of the year. Films like Iron Man 2 and Alice in Wonderland are the exception, he argues, in a summer full of underwhelming VFX in the shape of The A Team, Robin Hood and Prince of Persia.
He makes a fair point. Cast your mind back a year, and the CGI feasts were evident in the likes of Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation and Transformers 2, even if the latter two didn't impress in other areas. The year before, we had Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Incredible Hulk.
Animation remains unchanged, with studios like Pixar and Dreamworks large and profitable enough to withstand the effects of the economy. But some smaller VFX houses have been shutting up shop,...
He makes a fair point. Cast your mind back a year, and the CGI feasts were evident in the likes of Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation and Transformers 2, even if the latter two didn't impress in other areas. The year before, we had Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Incredible Hulk.
Animation remains unchanged, with studios like Pixar and Dreamworks large and profitable enough to withstand the effects of the economy. But some smaller VFX houses have been shutting up shop,...
- 7/5/2010
- by Joe Utichi
- Cinematical
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