Harrison Coltun

May 11, 2006

Time To Grow Up

By Harrison Coltun

It was a couple of French guys who invented modern movies, and the French have been making films ever since. In fact, Frenchmen have been making films for so long that they give out the most important award a film can re...

May 4, 2006

“Party Over Here, Fuck Y’all Over There”

By Harrison Coltun

At a quarter till eleven, Chief Xcel and The Gift of Gab, the duo responsible for Blackalicious, took the stage to the howling relief of the two thousand or so people lurking in the darkened food court. Gab promptly grab...

April 13, 2006

Slither | It’s Still Considered Passing

By Harrison Coltun

Do the names Roger Corman, John Carpenter and Wes Craven ring any of your bells like they ring mine? These master "horror" filmmakers revel in a trough of second-rate films which, due to their low production quality and ...

April 7, 2006

“A” for Amen

By Harrison Coltun

While we fight a war with an increasing death toll, attempt to repair the damage of a hurricane disaster which is slipping further and further out of public view, and try to make sense of the announcement that Paula Abdu...

April 7, 2006

Stop Hatin’

By Harrison Coltun

Documentaries are all the rage nowadays. All it takes is a few key items and you’re set. First, you need a camera, hopefully a nice one, none of that skate video looking stuff. Second, you will probably Final Cut P...

March 9, 2006

Ghetto Musik

By Harrison Coltun

If the "Girl from Ipanema" were alive today, she would certainly be homeless, addicted to drugs or dead. Today's Rio de Janeiro is much different than the Rio that inspired Stan Getz to write that famous song about Brazi...

March 7, 2006

Oscar Egos Crash In Flames

By Harrison Coltun

If you even give a shit about this year's Academy Awards then the following should be worthwhile. Last Sunday night, I sat hooked to the TV like the other millions of people that watch the awards every year.

February 23, 2006

Transamerica | Road Less Traveled

By Harrison Coltun

What exactly constitutes a recipient of an Oscar for Best Actress? This question brings us to this year's favorite for the Oscar for Best Actress in the form of the film "Transamerica."

February 16, 2006

Globalization of Animation

By Harrison Coltun

It's ba-ack. That's right, "The Animation Show" has survived its second year and is coming to an end right back where it started: Santa Barbara. "The Animation Show" is the brain child of Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis a...

February 9, 2006

Wonda’ From Down Unda’

By Harrison Coltun

If George Clooney were the matador of this year's film festival, then Naomi Watts was certainly the picador or possibly the banderillero. Naomi Watts graced our humble town on Saturday as the recipient of the Santa Barba...

February 9, 2006

The Nature of the Business

By Harrison Coltun

What do you think the most successful filmmaker of all time is doing these days? For one, he was here at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) to receive the Attenborough Award for Excellence in Nature Fi...

February 1, 2006

Artist in Profile: RZA: The Abbot of Wu-Tang

By Harrison Coltun

When you think Wu-Tang, images of hip-hop artists and big leather jackets with the letter "W" on it come to mind. The truth is that whatever form Wu-Tang may come in, you should be thinking about how to fulfill your life...

January 19, 2006

Last Holiday | Holiday Fit For a Queen

By Harrison Coltun

When playing chess, if you have lost your queen, you can change a pawn that moves all the way across the board back into that queen. This allegory obviously brings us to singer/actress Queen Latifah. In her own respect, ...

January 12, 2006

Old MacDonald Had a Script

By Harrison Coltun

Have you ever been sitting in a movie and thought to yourself, "I could write something better than this trash"? Well, here is your chance.

January 12, 2006

Eternal Debate, Round 15

By Harrison Coltun

There are many choices we meager human beings must deal with. Difficult choices such as sweet and sour or barbeque, Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC and whether happiness is defined by love or money.

November 17, 2005

Artist in Profile: Allison Anders

By Harrison Coltun

We here at UCSB are extremely lucky. No not for our unnaturally close proximity to the great pacific Pacific or our numerous Nobel laureates but for something else. We have at our school a filmmaker who offers her unconv...