Doing a comic about filmmakers and film, you'd think it would be helpful for me to see as many movies as possible. Not just the classics, but to keep up to date with the current pop-culture, and even though I try to as best I can, it's getting harder and harder to see the movies I truly want to see while living in the middle of Massachusetts.

Release dates are a mythical thing. If it looks like a good movie, odds are the date the trailer says that it will be coming out is a lie - or at least, a lie for my area. A privilege enjoyed only by those lucky sobs living in New York City or Los Angeles. If it looks like a bad movie - you bet it'll be in every theatre imaginable (and probably, now, also in migraine-inducing 3D!)

Mind you, I don't live in classy Massachusetts areas like Boston. Look at a map of the state. Point your finger to what you might think is the geological center of it. I live slightly west of your finger. (I didn't want you to point out exactly the town I live in, for fear that you would crush my apartment.)

Doing these Studio Litchfield comics only stand to remind me of a film I very much want to see but is currently locked in "Limited Release" hell. The film is called Untitled and based on its subject matter and how it handles it, makes me wish I had made the movie myself.

Sure, it might be bad and chances are it will be. It's a fine line to walk when satirizing the art word. I have high hopes for it and it has been getting great reviews, but at the very least, I just want to be able to see these kinds of movies again.

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