Cosmopolis (review)
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure what David Cronenberg’s point is here…
Matrix
question of the day: What makes a movie “modern”?
Is it the use of CGI? Is it blockbusterness (or bucking blockbusterness in the age of blockbusters)? Is it just about being produced after a certain date, and if so, when did the “modern” era of film begin?
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D movie review: escape to the past
It’s still a not very good movie. But… it’s still Star Wars.
Underworld: Awakening (review)
The fanboy-wank-material franchise continues! Kate Beckinsale runs around a dank, rainy, gothy, first-person-shooter generic urban landscape. And the blood and brainmatter splatters out at you in 3D! Please to have a cinemagasm!
The Darkest Hour (review)
A simple yet stupid riff on the disaster monster movie…
watch it: “Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX”
Not sure I totally buy into this. Many of the examples here are very generic
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The God Complex”
This is a wonderful episode: creepy, poignant, scary, funny. This is what Doctor Who can do that no other show can: be this surreal and this grounded at the same time.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Curse of the Black Spot”
Someone’s been watching Pirates of the Caribbean… No, wait, someone’s been watching The Abyss…
trailer break: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
I guarantee you that Michael Bay is having eight kinds of orgasms just thinking about the fact that we’re all watching all these lovely explosions in his new trailer today…
Scream 4 (review)
You wanna know who the killer is? I’ll tell you who the killer is. In fact, there’s two killers: that’s the twist. Director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson worked in tandem here to murder the horror comedy… or at least their own franchise. Not that it wasn’t dead already.
