I won’t hide it: I’m New York City born-and-bred. Concrete was my cradle, and carbon-monoxide-tinged air my mother’s milk (a strained analogy, but apt). Which is to say that I know squat about life on the farm. Don’t know how reap, don’t know how to herd, don’t even think of approaching me about animal husbandry. …
Category Archive: Sponsored Post
Sep
26
Trapeze School New York: Off the Street and Into the Air (Sponsored Post)
I don’t want to be the one to tell the people at Samsung their job, but I think it’s high-time somebody told the people at Samsung their job. I mean, they’re a good sponsor and alla that — if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to sit down with show biz …
Aug
03
The Keeper: The Mightiest MOFILM (Sponsored Post)
So the sponsored video below, The Keeper, was one of the winners of the MOFILM Cannes 2011 competition. And if you’re an astute, industry-insider like me, you’re probably thinking, Wow… MOFILM winner. What the hell’s a MOFILM? Turns out the folk at MOFILM are kinda crowdsourcing matchmakers. They bring in a number of sponsors — …
Jul
07
Joe Franklin Knows Talent (Sponsored Post)
You know you got it, you know it’s good, you just need that push to get your unique talent onto the stage and before an awaiting public. Well, our sponsor for this episode, Samsung, is ready to give you your chance with Samsung Mobile Stage, a competition that will grant a handful of standout entrants …
Jun
29
Guillaume Dolmans Goes on “The Date” (Sponsored Post)
So, another fun little sponsored post for y’all. This time Heineken’s the backer: They’ve got a new episode in what appears to be their ongoing series of “Nightlives of Really Cool Guys” videos. This one’s called “The Date,” and in about a minute and a half it depicts the kind of night you’ve always wished …
Jun
08
Alberta Cross on David O. Russell (Sponsored Post)
Hey, wow, we’ve got a Prestige Sponsor for this episode: Ketel One Vodka. And it’s a somewhat unusual, albeit ultimately logical, topic of discussion for the show: the Ketel One guys have produced a batch of new music videos by the hard-driving band Alberta Cross, and brought in David O. Russell to direct. When we …
Apr
09
ATTENTION LISTENERS IN GREAT BRITAIN: Help Send MMP to Camp!
Okay, let’s be blunt about this: I know nothing about comic actor Omid Djalili or screenplay writer David Baddiel, or their new film, THE INFIDEL, which is currently running in Great Britain. But the plot — about a British Muslim who discovers he was actually born Jewish — has potential and, more to the point, …
Oct
24
New Sponsor: THE FOURTH KIND
It appears that close encounters of the first, second, and third kind are pretty benign, but when you get to number four, that’s where things get nasty. Usually, it’s not advisable to try to go Spielberg one better, but the folk at Universal are giving it a shot. Check out the trailer:
Oct
08
9 Opens in UK on October 28th
Hey, lookee here: Focus Features’ 9, which opens in the UK at the end of October, is willing to throw a little financial support our way. (Thanks, guys!) So, in honor of all our brothers and sisters across the pond, I figured it’d be a good idea to re-offer the Tim Burton roundtable ep, and …
