And lo! The drooling of a million fanboys was heard clear across the Internet (and one more time, though it has to be said that teaser sites are made infinitely worse by allowing user comments…)
(Update: And more)
Keeping up a fine tradition, I went to 3 of the 4 Mirrorball programmes at the Edinburgh Film Festival this year. (The 4th was sold out, boo!)
For the uninitiated, the shows are themed collections of the best music videos of the year and tend to range from the fantastic to the WTF? This year’s shows [...]
Sunshine is a remarkably pretty film, and if you are capable of ignoring everything you’ve ever learned about physics, everything you know about logic or common sense, and everything that any character says or does for the duration of the film, then you might even enjoy it.
For your viewing/listening pleasure:
Trailer Club 70 - is a site collecting trailers from 70’s grindhouse films.
Copy, Right? - is a blog with an impressive list of odd cover versions of songs. (Including a post dedicated entirely to Pascal Comelade’s fairground re-interpretations of 1970’s songs.)
You must go and see:
Little Miss Sunshine
Because it’s the most unimaginably wonderful film you’ll see this year. Really. If you haven’t seen it yet, then stop reading this post right now and book a ticket. It’s basically a family road trip movie, but deals with depression and suicide and death, and is hilariously funny even [...]
Filmcritic.com chooses its “Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time”. Sadly, I’ve only seen about 30 of the films on the list, so I’ll just have to take their word for a lot of them…
Mamoru Oshii does South Park (or something.)
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
I can’t really say I enjoyed this. I love the stories, but the movie just didn’t hang together at all. It’s like they spent the entire budget on Aslan’s fur rather than on a scriptwriter. Most of the characters seemed off somehow; the only really convincing ones were Lucy, [...]
A pile of old movies I’ve seen but have been too lazy to write about until now. More to follow soon.
Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence
I think this is a film you have to watch a few times before it really sinks in. The first time, you’ll probably just sit around gawping at the [...]
It’s Halloween again, and it’s at this time of year that a boy’s thoughts turn to werewolf movies.
Some workmates and I have been watching various examples over the last few days, but we’ve now run out of obvious candidates. So it’s over to you, Internets, what should we watch next?
For calibration purposes:
Excellent
Ginger Snaps
The Company [...]
I’ve just got back from trying to see Night Watch. Sadly, I was foiled in the attempt by generally incompetent cinema staff.
When the film started the projector was misaligned, so the subtitles were off the bottom of the screen. I went to complain and was told that the projectionist was on his way to [...]
Over the weekend I went to a bunch of things at the ResFest at the National Film Theatre. Most of the things I went to were collections of either stand-alone short films or music videos, focusing either on animation or some fuzzy “exciting new design” gubbins. I’ve got lots of things to complain about, but [...]
Howl’s Moving Castle: I wanted to love this, and it’s exceptionally pretty, as you’d expect, but it just doesn’t work as a movie. There are all these long lingering shots of the characters and scenery, then there’s the jarring moments of “oh shit, we’ve forgotten about the story for the last 30 minutes, better cram [...]
This evening has been… unproductive.
I appear to have just watched all of Gone in Sixty Seconds. I couldn’t make myself turn away from the horrorshow.
I may have to go and hit myself with a crowbar now.
Serenity: We didn’t get tickets to the premier of this, but we did get Joss Weedeon and some of the cast stopping in breifly to introduce the film. They seemed knackered and were literally on their way to the airport, so there wasn’t a chance to speak to them afterwards. Probably just as well, since [...]