trailer break: ‘Astro Boy’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Looks like a little bit Iron Giant, a little bit Transformers, a little bit Robocop. The real question is, however: Is it a little bit Pinocchio? Does Astro long to be a real boy? This is from David Bowers, who cowrote and codirected the wonderfully original Flushed … more…

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (review)

Like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it.

pity poor Michael Bay

If this isn’t the quote of the year (as spoken to the London Times), then I dunno what is: Look, it’s easy to go shoot an art movie on a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. How many people it takes … more…