Fast Food Nation
Film review by: Witney Seibold
No one can read Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation, and think about their hamburger in the same way. With every bite, you begin to taste the horrors that go into making it. Read more »
Stranger than Fiction
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Stranger than Fiction” is a very arch, high-concept romantic comedy, taking pages from the Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry school of romance. Read more »
Flushed Away
Film review by: Witney Seibold
It seems the good folks at Aardman Animation, usually accustomed to making clever and mannered British comedies like “Chicken Run” and the “Wallace & Gromit” movies, have been chugging too much contraband Red Bull. Read more »
When Witney Seibold was about 10 years old, he got in trouble for spitting on a new car. Witney wants his teachers and classmates to know that he was not a mean-spirited or unhappy child, and only did this to make his fellow classmates laugh. His classmates were, you see all merely pretending to spit on the line of new cars they were walking by, and Witney thought he could do them one better by actually doing it.
When thinking back on it, he realizes that some poor schmo working at the new car lot would have had to clean his spit off of the car. He apologizes to his classmates (who probably were more shocked than amused), his teacher (who was certainly not at all amused), and especially the unseen car lot attendant, armed with the Windex and paper towels, who was probably cursing his job as he had to lean over and touch a stranger’s saliva. I’m very sorry.
