movie-ku #26
Star wars on weekends Who will be the biggest draw? Monday’s numbers loom
Month: October 2007
Simon Pegg to play Scotty in new ‘Star Trek’ movie
Or so Sci Fi Wire is reporting this morning. I am a happy, happy girl today.
movie-ku #25
Sit in the middle The wide screen fills your vision Outside goes away
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (review)
Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused. If 10th-grade history was as much fun as this, no one would ever cut class.
what does God need with a starship? atheism and nonbelief on DVD
The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that Hollywood is liberal and godless… but just try finding a movie coming out of the studios that features a real, live, out-of-the-closet, honest-to-, well, God atheist. You might have to go all the way back to 1929, to Cecil B. DeMille’s last silent film, The Godless Girl, an … more…
the sick ‘Saw IV’ Chamber of Torture promo
I’ve gotten into arguments with other critics who don’t like the term torture porn — they think it’s demeaning to the films it is deployed against, which astonishes me, because I can’t imagine how mere words describing the content of a movie could be more demeaning than the content itself. And I think here we … more…
movie-ku #24
’Tis the season for platforming releases… Now playing, two screens Next week, maybe a few more Oscar noms? Go wide!
will the new ‘Sleuth’ inspire a slew of “remakes”?
Sleuth opens in limited release on Friday — it’s a remake of the 1972 film of the same name, with an interesting casting twist. The original starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as two men who square off over a woman; for the new one, Caine graduates to the Olivier role, and Jude Law comes … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ (finally), ‘Rendition,’ ’30 Days of Night,’ ‘Jimmy Carter Man from Plains’
Slow week for me. I finally caught up with Lars and the Real Girl [opens limited October 12] today after technical difficulties scuttled a screening a couple of weeks ago. Turns out it’s a wonderful and deeply emotional little movie, all the yuckiness about Real Dolls aside. Ryan Gosling is amazing, and without question one … more…
one of the best examples of claymation I’ve ever seen
I’m sort of loath to highlight a commercial, but this British ad for Sony Bravia LCD widescreen TVs is one of the most oddly beautiful and mesmerizing examples of motion-stop animation using clay I’ve ever seen. It’s simply a really love little film: I discovered this at Duncan’s TV Ad Land, which also features making-of … more…
