Trailer For The American Version Of Akira
Posted on July 28, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Funny | Leave a Comment
Obviously this is a joke, and thankfully it looks like the real proposed remake is now dead. I learned this (and found the video) on this superbly named Irish film blog.
Nom Nom Nom
Posted on July 28, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
“Either you eat life or life eats you.” So said one of the Tahitians in the 1962 version of Mutiny On The Bounty. It reminds me a little of Sam Elliott’s sage adage in The Big Lebowski that “sometimes you drink the bar, and well, sometimes the bar, it drinks you.” I’d almost be motivated [...]
Movie News Digest In Links
Posted on June 27, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
Charlie Jane Anders has an unusual take on Michael Bay’s latest blockbuster film over at io9.com.
Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawk and Sam Neil are all starring in a Vampire movie due for release in 2010 that, shock horror, looks like it might actually be good.
Duncan Jones, the director of the reportedly excellent Moon, is also sometimes [...]
TLDB Plug
Posted on June 9, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging, Film | Leave a Comment
Mr. Chainsaw has some sage remarks on advertisements at the cinema over at The Living Deadbeat.
[●REC]
Posted on June 8, 2009 - Filed Under Film | 2 Comments
I saw two films in the last two days. One was a multimillion dollar non-event featuring Christian Bale acting all pissed off and grumpy about having to contend an absolute mutt of a script, and the other was shot with only a basic hand-held camera, a very limited budget and a talented band of unknown [...]
Donald Clark’s Film Reviews from last Friday
Posted on June 1, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
Snarky, but cut through with wit; film criticism at its best.
12 Rounds.
Fireflies in the Garden.
The Girl Cut in Two (La fille coupée en deux).
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
Firefly
Posted on May 24, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I started watching this show about a week ago and since then I’ve seen all 14 episodes of the series and Serenity, the film spin-off based on the show. It’s brilliant and witty and engaging and full of memorable characters played by actors who deserve to be more successful than they already are. I really [...]
Marley And Me
Posted on May 19, 2009 - Filed Under Animals, Film | Leave a Comment
A word to the wise: don’t watch this film if you love dogs and your sinuses are acting screwy and you’re dosed up on lots of Lemsip and you’ve just eaten spicy food, because someone could look at you at an inopportune moment (like, say, when you’re blowing your nose) and think that you’re crying, [...]
JJ Abram’s Star Trek
Posted on May 8, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I never watched the original series, or many of the films, so I’m not really in a position to say how faithful this is to the source material. I can say, however, that the film is a blast, full of strong performances, and entertaining from start to finish. There’s a lot of script to get [...]
A Long Overdue Admission
Posted on May 6, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
In the past I’ve said unkind things about Pixar films based on trailers that for whatever reason rubbed me up the wrong way. Having now watched WALL-E, Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo, I realise that I was completely wrong about such films, and that Pixar is, in fact, totally awesome.
Pirate Bay Verdict
Posted on April 17, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Internets, Media, Music, News Item | Leave a Comment
From the BBC:
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay $4.5m [...]
WALL-E
Posted on April 9, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I’ve never been a big fan of Pixar films, but pretty much everything about this one is beautiful. The story’s simple yet elegant, it looks fantastic, and there’s remarkably little dialogue throughout (which is just one of the ways in which it subtly echoes 2001). Plus, much of what little speech there is in the [...]
Michael Bay’s New Film Breakfast
Posted on April 5, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Funny | Leave a Comment
It looks like he’s cutting back on explosion special-effects…
The Blair Witch Project And Me
Posted on April 5, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Personal | Leave a Comment
I have ALWAYS FUCKING HATED this film, and I’ve never even watched it fully. It’s not the way it’s shot, nor the acting, nor the plot, nor anything else related to the production. Instead, I hate it because I’m scared shitless of it.
Some background information is necessary here. The film came out around 1999, and [...]
Where The Wild Things Are Trailer
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I vaguely remember this children’s book, or at least the wonderfully creepy illustrations in it. I’m a little confused as to what to make of the trailer: at best it looks like a tasteful re-imagining of the book; at worst it looks like a a bunch of guys running around the woods in fursuits. Still, [...]
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