looks like Neil Blomkamp made that Halo movie after all (Elysium trailer)
Love of Blomkamp flips around a movie image that’s almost religiously iconic…
2001 A Space Odyssey
question of the day: Of all the films you’ve ever seen, which one would you consider the greatest?
I want to know what you think makes a movie great, and how your personal greatest film impacted your determination of what makes for great cinema in general.
question of the day: What is your favorite iconic still image from filmdom?
Obviously I’m not talking about an image that is actually motionless necessarily, but an image that implies stillness, one that the director lingers on, perhaps to create a sense of the sinister or the suspenseful…
watch it: a capella science fiction music
Singing group Novis belts out a selection of sci-fi theme music. Deeply nerdiriffic.
Saturday cute: Shit That Siri Says
Poor Siri, coping with the meaning of life and the legacy of HAL 9000!
The Tree of Life (trailer)
Having now seen the film, I can say that this trailer is more moving and more coherent than the film itself.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘2001: A Who Odyssey’
This made me laugh out loud more than once…
Moon movie review: eclipsing the genre
Someday, Rockwell will get his Oscar due, I have no doubt. But I bet that when that day comes, lots of movie lovers will look back and say, “But it should have happened for Moon.”
because the military-industrial-entertainment complex Fox Mulder warned us about is real
Remember those two big skyscrapers that used to be in lower Manhattan? Remember how they fell to the ground? Never happened. It was all CGI: Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday there was “strong evidence” the US faked the September 11 terror attacks as an excuse to go to war against Muslims. “There … more…
classical movies are music to cinema’s ears
No, not classic movies: classical movies. September is Classical Music Month, the origin of which probably ties in to the whole “back to school, back to seriousness” idea. Which is sort of silly, actually: just because classical music is has stood the test of time doesn’t mean it has to be solemn. In fact, for … more…
