Film – Kevin Smokler

“Movie Settings and What they tell Us” My Presentation at Ignite San Francisco

Smokler on July 31, 2014

If you'd like to know what my next book Brat Pack America: Places you Know and Love Thanks to 80s Teen Movies is about, here's the nut of it in five minutes where I explain all.

Thank you to Brady Forrest and Ignite San Francisco who invited me to do this presentation in the spring. Great prep for the 9813 times I'll be doing it next year when I go on tour.

And I want to do more Ignite Events (say what?). This one was so much fun.

One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Accepted” (2006):

Smokler on September 5, 2006

Accepted (2006): “For the first time in movie history, a comedy set on a college campus does not include a panty raid.”

Notes: Seen in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my brother and sister in law.

Nimbler Netflix:

Smokler on November 15, 2004

On a recommendation from last weekend’s Media Swap with Mr Budiac, I’m playing around with Netflix Freak, a Mac OSX thingy that sits on your desktop and allows you to mess around with your Netflix Queue without logging on to the site. Bonuses inclue being able to drag-n-drop movies around your queue without retyping in numeric positions, a “shuffle” button for throwing your movies into the air and seeing what order they land in (they really need an “unshuffle” button too), an an option to download your entire rental history (not sure why you’d want to) instead of just the last 90 days.

Simple but how useful? I’m looking into it.