watch it: “Matrix Cat Fight funny”
Also with puppies.
Year: 2011
Blooded (review)
First-time feature filmmakers director Edward Boase and screenwriter James Walker want you know right off the bat that Blooded is not a “mockumentary.” But it is a fictional story told in an expansive documentary format — complete with “reenactments” of “real” events — that lends a powerful urgency and immediacy and relevance to an invented story in a way that a more narrative structure would have missed.
Playmobil Apple Store playset: April Fool’s joke?
I’m about 95 percent sure this is a joke… but I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t, either…
trailer break: ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’
“Let’s go see the new 3D Werner Herzog movie!” Truly, that must be one of the most unexpected sentences ever.
question of the day: Can Michael Bay do justice to Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
Film director Michael Bay announced today, April 1, that his next project would be a 10-part miniseries adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel American Gods. Bay revealed that Shia LaBeouf has been cast Shadow, the ex-convict who unwittingly takes a job as a bodyguard for Odin, who will be played by Bruce Willis…
watch it: 1980s Mr. Microphone commerical
Oh, dearie me, were the 80s really this awful?
Source Code (review)
If you haven’t already seen 2009’s Moon, I beg you to do so before you see Source Code, which will put you off director Duncan Jones, which wouldn’t be fair to you, to Jones, or to Moon.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: legendary steampunk Dalek
“Joseph Bazalgette patented this sewer maintenance machine in an effort to modernize the cleaning of London’s sewers. Powered by miasma and driven by modified rat brains -genetically or otherwise, we do not know – it was too willful an invention, and the first fifty produced escaped into the wild unknown of the tubular London underground, forcing Bazalgette abandon his invention and return to using manpower.” Or so the legend goes…
trailer break: ‘Rubber’ (redband)
Little tire hates bunnies. Little tire blows things up with its mind, er, tread, um, something.
question of the day: Should there be a retirement age for artists?
Who could possibly make such a decision about when to retire accept an artist herself? Is there any way to mandate a retirement age for artists except by audiences refusing to participate as audiences anymore (which still wouldn’t prevent an artist from making art, only from having it seen)?
