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.”
Twilight Zone
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “An Unearthly Child”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
Predators (review)
Sort of a Xerox copy of the 1987 *Predator,* with the only point perhaps establishing Adrien Brody’s action creds, in case that Oscar for *The Pianist* starts holding him back from getting good work.
watch it: 1960s Chatty Cathy doll commercial
No, it’s not a lost episode of The Twilight Zone: “Just pull the ring — you never know what she’ll say next.” She could say: “Why don’t you love me anymore?” “Can I have one of Mommy’s Valiums?” “Just so you know, I buried the cat under the shed…”
question of the day: What other book should Eli have been carrying through the apocalypse?
[spoiler for The Book of Eli… sorta] For the first little while as I was watching The Book of Eli, I find myself thinking, “If the book is a Bible, I’m gonna scream.” Not — as reader TwistedKestrel suggested in comments — because I automatically hate any movie with a Christian theme, but because that … more…
The Book of Eli (review)
Denzel was carrying the fire, right, Papa? Yes. The book was the fire? Yes. No. The boy wouldnt understand.
watch it: “Black Button”
It’s not The Box — this came first: The makers of this short say they had never heard of the Richard Matheson story, or the Twilight Zone episode based on it, never mind The Box. (via Sci Fi Wire)
The Invention of Lying (review)
It’s rare that a film — especially a studio film — does this: goes so far in a direction you weren’t even expecting it would go in at all that the shock of it is doubled.
trailer break: ‘Pandorum’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… How do you think you would react if you knew the truth? Well, I’m guessing that the secret of this spaceship with the messed-up crew and the missing 60,000 passengers will turn out to be less thrilling and far more predictable than the filmmakers would like. Alien … more…
I Sell the Dead (review)
If it were a 30-minute comic episode of *The Twilight Zone,* this ambitious low-budget flick might not have overstayed its welcome, but dragged out to three times that running time, it cannot help but be more miss than hit.
