New Reviews are now at Rotten Tomatoes

I finally got a profile at Rotten Tomatoes, and I'll be posting all my reviews there from now on, as it's a better place to get more exposure, and there's quite a large community of film fans there to talk with. However, I will gather all the reviews I post there each month as a mega-post for this blog.
Read my reviews here

Update

Hello again nonexistent readers. I haven't posted much lately because I haven't felt like posting, and I haven't done much with this blog. I just updated it with a new template and a simplified layout, so maybe I'll start writing on this thing and promoting it actively again.

New Domain

The blog can now be accessed from kieranpertnav.tk. It will also still be accessible from the original blogspot address.

I was on Kauai yesterday.

For a Summer trip I spent 4 days on Kaui, one of my neighbor islands. It was a really amazing experience and I'll say more about it soon, and hopefully post some pictures.

UP

The blog is here to stay for the Summer. I haven't been blogging very much and didn't get all the reviews out that I hoped to, but I'm gonna be doing daily posts for a while to get the blog back in shape. Let's start with my review of UP, which I saw yesterday.

The people who came in late missed the best part. Up begins with a montage so poignant and beautifully excellent that it carries the rest of the film. As a result, director Pete Doctor is able to hit just the right emotional notes due to the deep emotional background that powers the film. When I first heard about Up, I immediately fell in love with the concept. A man tying balloons to his house and floating away? What's not to like? But I wasn't prepared for the incredible humanity and depth that makes this film not only an easy candidate for Best Animated Picture, but Best Picture overall. Up is sad, memorable, deep, sweet and hysterically funny, and gets just the right balance of humor and depth to keep audiences of all ages enthralled. The film made me laugh many times, but parts of it also had me tearing up. It's all masterfully wrapped up in just 96 minutes, and they're bound to be some of the bests minutes you spend on a couch or in a theater. PIXAR's masterpiece Up is a timeless, hilarious, bittersweet film that everyone can enjoy.

The short version-

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A whole bunch of new reviews coming up.

I finally saw Milk, Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler. I'm going to see Star Trek today, so look for reviews for all of those. Also, I made some logos and I want to take a poll on which I should use. 

The Blog Lives!

I haven't posted in a while, and I'm sorry. There will be some new posts coming up soon, but let me just give you an update on what's been going on. 

I just watched Brazil. I would give you some thoughts, but I still haven't figured it out.

The Shak Budisen movie is at a standstill, but I'm determined to finish it and not make it yet another unfinished project. 

I have learned a bunch of photoshop skills. 

I am attending a film/television workshop thingy this Saturday, and will post about it.

Thats all. 

Tennis & 1000 Hits

I've started doing tennis, and it takes up a lot of my time. So I'm gonna be posting even less than usual now that tennis is going on.

In other stuff, I just looked down at the hit counter, and the blog has finally passed 1000 hits. Thanks to everyone who came and visited :D

New Theme

Well, I changed the blog title to make it less cumbersome and I changed the theme. I may mess with the colors later. Thats all. (lame post)

1 Year of Blog

Yep. Its been a whole year since I started this blog, with my first post being "I had mac and cheese for lunch" ah, what auspicious beginnings. It started out as a daily blog with a lot of style and opinion and a little substance, and has evolved into a review and production blog that updates a lot less often, but with better quality posts. I think things have slowed down a bit more than I wanted them too, and I'm going to try to pick up the pace a bit in the blogs second year. I think there were a lot of bad posts last year, and a lot of good posts. Some stuff was misguided, some was correct. I'm hoping to perfect my posting style, spelling and grammar, and film critique for next year. Heres what you can look forward to in year two

• A review of the complete Powerpuff Girls DVD set

• Another really late review, this time of  Kung Fu Panda which could be the last redemption for Dreamworks (and possibly the last time I use the Dreamworks label in this blog, I don't even know why they get their own label)

•The Shak Budisen Movie and more production news- the movie is currently still set for release this Summer, I just have to finish it, which I will do eventually. I've done some new animation which I need to score.

• Lots more reviews of movies I will be seeing.

• More random crap to keep the blog active.

• Me being pompous when I get 1000 hits.

• Yet another new name for the blog. I'm thinking of simplifying it to: "Stuff I'm Making and Watching"

• The premier of my new show

• Possibly a music video 

• Possible move to a private server where this will become part of an expanded site

• Stuff

Ok, thats all I got, but hopefully that will keep things interesting and keep this blog going.

~Kieran

Good News and Bad News

The good news is that before the premier of the Shak Budisen Movie, there will be at least one more episode of Shak Budisen. The reason is that I had a killer idea for an episode.

The bad news is that the movie will be pushed back until at least next year. If I'm going to make any more cartoons they need time. But the Shak Budisen movie is nearing completion so it definitely won't be lost to the sands of time.

The Air CN Shows in Widescreen Petition

Oh, and be sure to grab the Chowder vol 1 DVD! It has the first five produced half-hours on it (10 stories total), each presented in their original wide-screen format. You'll see more picture than was shown on broadcast, plus an animatic for Chowder's Girlfirend.

That's from C.H Greenblatts blog. according to this, Chowder was originally made in widescreen. However, I have yet to see a single episode in widescreen, and the iTunes episodes are in pan and scan as well. This makes me angry at CN and it makes me wonder if there are other shows that are being made in widescreen and aired in fullscreen.

So, post a comment and I'll add your name to the petition to get chowder and possibly other shows like it shown on CN in their original state

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Wow

The amount of posts on this blog has really declined. October had the second fewest posts this year. Part of it has to do with me being back in school, meaning I'm lazy, and part of it has to do with me spending more time on forums and less time on blogger. Whatever. The Shak Budisen Movie may have to be delayed, but I'm still working on it.

I have to eat my words

In fact, my two new reviews aren't up. Go figure. I was going to write them when I came back from the beach but I stepped on a sea urchin, so I ended up doing my homework and watching the grim adventures of billy and mandy. That's not so bad, but I will get those reviews up eventually.

Coming Tomorrow

I'll have two new reviews up: a belated review of Iron Man, and a review of Underfist, a new cartoon movie that will use a new rating scale specifically designed for this type of movie. This stuff will be posted tomorrow, but I wanted to post something today.

The Shak Budisen Movie is Still Alive

The production of the Shak Budisen "movie" is slowly moving along, and it should still be ready by winter. I hope to finish it before that so I can start my next webtoon and use it to promote the movie. I recorded a long overdue cameo by my friend Jesse Tarnas as the senile drummer Red Palmer, and I talked to Kevin Temmer on Flapjackfan.com about doing some 3-D Animation for the movie and for my new webtoon SafetyNet. Which means things are gonna get awesome. Of course, the voice timing is awful as always, but the Shak movie will have actual backgrounds and background music, animation and voices not made by me, and all new character models. I hope to have it out by mid December, and to premier SafetyNet in mid November.

RIP Paul Newman

I only just learned today that Paul Newman is dead, and I had no idea what to say. He was such a major American figure and so much more than just an actor. But as I was spreading some Newman's own tomato sauce onto a french bread pizza and thinking about the news, I knew I had to post something. Rest in peace Paul.

The full article on his death is available on rotten tomatoes .

My deviantArt

With all my involvement online as far as cartoons go, I decided to get a deviantArt . Its not much now, but its something, and I'm workin' on it. 

Also, (just to make this a less pathetic post) I revamped the look of this blog a little. I basically just switched a couple of colors, but whatever.

Some News

Ign's summer movie awards are out, unsurprisingly, The Dark Knight got the most awards and Heath Ledger got best villain. 

Homestarrunner.com has posted its 200th Strong Bad Email. Its awesome.

pretty weak post huh. 

Some Lego Stop Motion and Shak Budisen Movie Update

Here's my entry into the overpopulated world of lego stop motion. I mostly just made it for fun. The Shak Budisen movie is really coming along. There's almost 4 minutes of completed voices, animation, sound and music, so Shak is aimed for a winter release instead of summer. The Shak Budisen movie will be one of, if not the last Shak cartoon I make so I'm moving on after this. I may make another trailer. I probably will just revise the old one.