The Whole Plate Ep. 3 - Why Is It So Hard To Remember What Happens in the Transformers Movies?
Important questions for trying times.
2017-05-25 01:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Whole Plate: Auteur Theory vs. Michael Bay
Now the real journey begins.
2017-05-01 03:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Whole Plate - Part One: Intro to Film Studies
Welcome to "The Whole Plate - Film Studies through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers"
In part one, we start with the very beginning - a very good place to start.
Also, have started a new system this month for keeping track of patrons, so...
2017-04-29 03:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostBeauty and the Beast and Stockholm Syndrome
#BEASTMODE activate
2017-03-29 16:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostComing this summer! Let's try this again addition.
Hey gang, wanted to shoot everyone an update for my summer plans! For the now-deleted post, someone asked, why not make a poll now that Patreon has that option?
The answer, dear reader--because I did not realize Patreon now had that option.&n...
2017-03-22 20:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostAre Disney Villains Going Extinct?
An important question for a tumultuous time.
2017-03-01 05:45:23 +0000 UTC View PostPlanting and Payoff - featuring MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
So y'all wanted more film studies-type videos? Here ya go!
2017-02-01 04:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access - RENT
Fair warning, this one got a lot darker than I thought it would.
I am so tired.
2017-01-01 00:12:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Designing the Other: Aliens on Film
Will try to finish one more video by the end of the month...
I'm tempted to do one about the literal fucking nazis... talk me out of it...
2016-11-24 03:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hercules Addendum: How Three-Act Screenplays Work
I had to get this out of my system.Look for Loose Canon on Jack the Ripper by the end of the month!
2016-10-17 20:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostVideo Essay - Hercules: Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess
An overlong dissection of how to grow a mediocre Disney movie from the seeds of greatness.
I gotta say, making an overlong video essay on why a movie doesn't live up to potential or expectations is a lot harder than making one about why a movie is ...
2016-10-01 03:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post1000 Patrons, next video essay teaser, and schedule!
I did not plan this to be part of the update, but as of today, looks like I've hit 1,000 patrons! Of course that could change at any second, but thank you all, I'm all verklempt!
Secondly, since I get a lot of requests for the really long video ess...
2016-09-29 16:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostLoose Canon: Hillary Rodham Clinton
I decided to go with a safe topic. :)
And this one comes with a CONTEST!! Notice how this has the words "Hillary" and "Clinton" in it, and how that tends to correlate with a certain, shall we say, turbulence vis a vis the YouTube like bar? Well let...
2016-09-23 22:29:42 +0000 UTC View PostMystique
Finally got to do my favorite X-villain(?)!
Next couple are going to be my choice. Muahahaha.
2016-09-01 00:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostUnabridged 9/11 notes & references
http://www.cracked.com/article_19087_the-9-most-offensive-911-references-in-pop-culture.html
9/11 - part 2
As promised, here's part 2. Usually I wouldn't drop two in the same week let alone the same day, and sorry for that, but as I mentioned in the last post, these were... tricky.
Anyway, technical issues I will work out this week. As always if there a...
2016-08-01 02:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post9/11 part 1 (also, ugh)
I had intended to put this up last week, but computer problems and then leaving town necessitated that I move systems, and owing to the size of the project... Long story short, I've had a lot of technical problems. I hadn't intended to dump BOTH part...
2016-07-31 14:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostJuly episode(s) update
As you may have seen in the previous video, you can vote for the next episode here (http://namebrandlindsay.com/2016/07/06/next-loose-canon-poll/). 2016-07-11 17:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Mini-Canon: Marilyn Monroe
Here's the June mini-sode, voted overwhelmingly by you, the patreons, to be Marilyn Monroe.
Also, so sorry the full episode is taking so long. Doing an episode on 9/11 is... tricky, but it will be up soon!
2016-07-01 02:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostJune Mini-sode poll - music-y sorts (who actually existed)
What's it gonna be? PICK ONE! (and ONLY one)
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Marilyn Monroe
Ludwig von Beethoven
Mini-sode: X-men Dying (and un-dying)
Posted this one to YouTube since I wanted it to coincide with the release of X-men: Apocalypse, which is getting raaaaave revie- no. :(
2016-05-27 20:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostAphrodite - unabridged notes, research, resources, further reading
- Background/history
For
2016-05-11 19:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostDrinkin' Round the (Disney World) - Epcot Challenge, 2016
(Temporary) patreon exclusive (and obviously not a charged one)! Watch me and my friends get drunk at Disney World (As long as I had the presence of mind to film it) in the best stereotypes Disney has to offer.
Password is didntpukeftw
2016-05-04 04:04:29 +0000 UTC View PostLoose Canon: Aphrodite
~*~The Goddess of Love~*~
password is youmademeplaygodofwar
Patreon is being janky so here's the url: https://vimeo.com/164859395 2016-05-01 02:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera: A long, drunken video essay
This will have to be the pre-credits version - I'll upload a credits version hopefully later today (it will just replace this file, because you can do that on Vimeo). In the meantime I'm going to double check all the names I have on file for the 10$+...
2016-04-07 18:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostLoose Canon - April 2016 - More Myth & Legend
Alternately, if the poll refuses to load:
http://namebrandlindsay.com/2016/03/29/lcapr16/
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2016-03-29 15:17:57 +0000 UTC View PostSuperheroes Fighting other Superheroes
Phantom '04 review got out of hand - I'll break that one into two parts (but I'll only charge for one)
Password is dickcheney
2016-03-22 02:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post