watch it: if Wes Anderson made Men in Black III
Mash up the trailers for Men in Black III and Moonrise Kingdom, and it becomes a nice little exercise in how much music and color impact mood.
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Moonrise Kingdom (trailer)
Wes Anderson trailer is very Wes Anderson.
question of the day: What’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
Hilarious headline in the Onion this week: Ridley Scott Trades Russell Crowe To Tim Burton For Johnny Depp And though I hate to quote an entire story, this one is so short: HOLLYWOOD, CA—Directors Ridley Scott and Tim Burton traded their favorite actors Wednesday, closing a deal in which Scott received Johnny Depp and Burton … more…
watch it: “Nothing Lasts Forever trailer”
It’s not a real trailer but a collection of clips assembled, trailer-wise, from a real movie made in 1984 by Tom Schiller that was never released, even though it starred Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd, as well as Zach Galligan, who had just starred in the huge hit Gremlins: See this recent piece in L.A. … more…
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
Shutter Island (review)
If what I think is happening here, is happening here, it better not be…
watch it: “Wes Anderson Spider-Man”
Now I so want to see what Wes Anderson would do with a comic book. Though I pretty much already did after falling in love with his Fantastic Mr. Fox. (via Jezebel)
top 10 movies of 2009: the whys and wherefores
If you regularly check my on-the-fly ranking of new theatrical releases as I see them, then my top 10 movies of 2009 are no surprise: I shuffled a few titles around a bit last month, but the films ranked in the top 10 for 2009 haven’t changed much in months. (The 2009 ranking is here; … more…
watch it: Wes Anderson’s stop-motion NBR acceptance speech
Well, there was none of that nonsense from Wes Anderson about how he was so sure he wouldn’t win that he didn’t prepare an acceptance speech. When the National Board of Review named Fantastic Mr. Fox its Best Animated Film of 2009, Anderson was ready:
