I wanted to like Kevin Smith’s latest film, Red State, ever since first reading about it in this excellent piece by Jason Bailey about the weird, self-defeating distribution scheme Smith used to essentially sink the film’s chances of ever reaching a truly wide audience. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get into the movie – for a […]
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My favorite Pixar film – hands down – was The Incredibles, the story of a family of superheroes driven into hiding by an overly litigious society only to be brought back into the spotlight to save the world from a nerdy megalomaniac. The movie has only improved with age. Once I became a father and now that I […]
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Alyssa Rosenberg thinks Men in Black might just be the best progressive immigration film out there: The movie’s immigrants aren’t merely saintly. They’re cranky newsstand attendants, family people who break laws to try to get their wives and kids out of the way of harm, cranky elementary school teachers. The Bug’s a conservative nightmare of […]
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…this is one of the best movie trailers I’ve seen in a long time.
Well this looks interesting. Hadn’t even heard about it until now. Snow White is, of course, an extremely dark story so an adult version might make sense. I have no idea if it will be a retelling of the original or take some wildly different plot. Either way it could be either very good or spectacularly bad. We shall see.
I’ve long lamented the fact that we’re probably not ever going to get a movie series or television show based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy because it’s too big, and too deeply rooted in discussions of science, to translate for a mass audience. But it sounds like Neill Blomkamp’s post-District Nine project, Elysium, in addition to boasting a cast that includes Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, and Sharlto Copley, may be exploring some of the same things I’d hoped we’d get out of a Mars project. A viral teaser for the movie comes in the form of an advertisement for a fictional company called Armadyne advertising for folks who work in everything from “zero g welders, mega-structure engineers, quantum networkers” to “zero g coupling and multi-generational planning”.
I regret to say I have never read Robinson’s Mars trilogy. Maybe when I’m done with Dance with Dragons I’ll pick it up. Or when I’m done with the Abercrombie books.
I need to spend more time reading and less time…sleeping I guess. But Elysium sounds fascinating. I was a big fan of District 9.
I’m going to have a full post up on Super 8 when I have the time. For now, let me just say: please see this movie. If you liked The Goonies or E.T. or Alien you will like this film. Instant classic as far as I’m concerned. Exactly what I want in a movie.