Out and About in Culver: The Museum of Jurassic Technology

While I love living in Culver City I must admit it is lacking in a few things. Mainly with museums as I needed to drive or use public transportation to get to any of these places I’ve shown you already. But Culver does boast one museum and it is called ‘The Museum of Jurassic Technology’. Whenever I asked anybody about this place all they would tell me is that it is the trippiest place you will ever be in. With such high praise(?) I finally took an afternoon to witness what makes this tiny building have such an aura of weirdness around it. By the end of my trip I learned that ‘trippy’ or ‘weird’ doesn’t even begin to describe this place. Words like ‘nightmarish’ and ‘unsettling’ are more apt.

Lost River (Review)

Many actors think they can easily go behind the camera and create their own film. We have seen it time and time again with very mixed results. For every Ben Affleck (Argo) and Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Mystic River) giving us some cinematic gems we have the opposite in Eddie Murphy (Harlem Nights) who shows he should stay far away from the Director’s chair. Last year, Ryan Gosling tried his hand at becoming his own auteur with the debut of Lost River. Does this show any promise that Mr. Gosling can become a hot, new commodity as a filmmaker?