Star Wars: Downunder trailer: fair dinkum
Behold the upcoming Star Wars fan film that’s a tweak on Australian beer commercials, by commercial director and VFX guy Michael Cox.
Month: July 2013
London photo of the day: alterations for Jawas
I bet it’s hard to find good-fitting trousers if you’re a Jawa…
Blackfish review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
A horrifying, heartbreaking eye-opener about human inhumanity to other intelligent and emotional beings who share our planet.
let Benedict Cumberbatch read to you from a children’s book
And Javier Bardem and Idris Elba and Ryan Gosling. (And also Channing Tatum, if you’re into that sort of thing.) From “Love You Forever: 5 of Hollywood’s Sexiest Men Read to You from Children’s Classics” at Bookriot: You know what they say: There is nothing sexier than a man reading a children’s book. Okay, so … more…
I don’t know why everyone hasn’t subscribed to Movie Cheat Sheet
I’m starting to add little notices below new reviews in the hopes that this will encourage you all to see what you’re missing in my Movie Cheat Sheet email newsletters.
Frances Ha review: girl uninterrupted
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have carved out, with effortless elegance and ease, a cinematic space for a woman to be, unapologetically, herself.
Doctor Who thing: the UK National Media Museum wants your Doctor Who memorabilia
For an exhibit opening in November called “Fifty Years of Doctor Who Fans”…
Dear Mr. Watterson trailer: a Calvin & Hobbes movie! (sort of)
Artists and writers talk about how Calvin & Hobbes influenced them. So I presume this documentary is about 14 hours long…
London photo of the day: off-kilter door
I’d hate to come home drunk to this house.
can you spot the bullshit in this description of Timur Bekmambetov’s Warriors of Oz?
The female protagonist has been scrubbed from this “classic story.” Why, Bekmambetov? You got a problem with women?
