Author Archives: Matthew Eppinette

Coming Attraction: Never Let Me Go

From the promotional materials: In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us … Continue reading

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Interesting color photos from the 30s and 40s

“These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations . . .” Denver Post

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Carson Online

Looking forward to being able to watch some Carson online. Doesn’t look like the general public be able to see all of it, but some is better than none. LA Times

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Latest Project

Latest project I’m involved in — a documentary on egg donation. Trailer, clips, and additional material available on the website (Eggsploitation.com). DVDs shipping next week.

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A Review of Splice

By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager Splice is a science fiction / horror film about genetic experimentation gone wrong. Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) are scientists working to combine strands of DNA from multiple animals to … Continue reading

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Gehry’s New Building

Frank Gehry has a new building up.  It’s a brain health research center associated with the Cleveland Clinic, although this center is in Vegas. The LA Times ran a review earlier this week, and today a follow up on the … Continue reading

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Lost is Almost Over

But there is a ton of stuff you can do in the mean time. Entertainment Weekly’s Jeff Jensen has a post highlighting several options.

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Windy and Cold

Woke up with quite a headache this morning (it’s Spring!) so I ended up watching more of the morning news than I usually do. One of the things that genuinely amuses me is they way weather people in Southern California … Continue reading

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Arrested Peanuts Development

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Mediated to Death?

By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It is an exploration of the way in which media, broadly construed (“arts and artifacts that represent, … Continue reading

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