Entries Tagged as 'movies'
Justin Lin is the man
The other week I had a very directorly week. First was the Hotel Chevalier screening where Wes Anderson and Co. showed up for a little Q&A and then I went to another thing with Justin Lin and some of the cast and crew behind his latest film, Finishing the Game.
First of all, you should know [...]
Breakfast Links: Wall-E, rsizr & Wired Subways
Ok, this is the first Pixar flick that I am actually interested to see… Wall-E. The trailer is up at Yahoo, go watch it. Then you gotta check out the film site - Buy n Large, which looks like some crazy corporate site of the future. It’s pretty great, from the privacy notice:
Buy n Large [...]
Categories: breakfast links · movies · nyc
Mini Review: Hotel Chevalier by Wes Anderson
UPDATE 3: Well, now that the credits are right there, that song is “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)” by Peter Sarstedt. It’s on the youtubes. It was his big #1 hit in ‘69. And I was close with the lyric, it’s “With your carefully designed topless swimsuit / You get an even suntan [...]
Two good movies - Helvetica and Once
So I saw not one, but two good movies this weekend. It’s pretty rare that I see more than one movie in a given weekend, much less two good ones, so I thought I’d write a quick bit on them.
First I saw Helvetica, I’d been waiting for awhile to see this one - to [...]
Breakfast Links: Tron, Nuns & I Hate Young People
SFSignal gives us the heads up on the new Tron movie! In an unprecedented move (for Hollywood) it isn’t actually a remake, but “the next chapter”! Heh, it’s in negotiations right now with Joseph Kosinski to develop and direct it - he’s done some commercials that are a little odd, but very cool, check ‘em [...]
Categories: breakfast links · movies · sci-fi
Breakfast Links: Transformers, NYC Schools & Indiana Jones
So there’s the new show being produced by Cartoon Network - Transformers: Animated. Kind of a dumb name and when I say “kind of” I mean, really dumb. I guess someone in Atlanta thought it was clever. There’s the trailer for it that looks ok, I appreciate that they are sticking with the original song [...]
Categories: breakfast links · movies · nyc
Iron Man Trailer
See also my review of Iron Man.
Well, I’ve kind been waffling about whether I was going to be excited for the Iron Man movie or not and whether or not I liked Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Fortunately the trailer is out now and the waffling is over (via scifichick). I’m medium excited [...]
Robotech to the big screen
UPDATE: Huh, I just saw a google ad on the right that brought me to this page where you can see that they’re playing a few anime on the big screen for one day only. I haven’t seen Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles or Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shambala - anyone into it? They’re [...]
Breakfast Links: Speed Racer, American Gladiators & AllofMP3
Don’t you hate mondays? Don’t you love art?
If you go way back to the olden days you’ll remember a wee cartoon from japan called Speed Racer, mentioned here before. Well, there’s a little more news out on the movie being directed by the Wachowski brothers (via /.). Apparently they’ve got some new super ultra fancy [...]
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50 Reasons why Jedi sucks
You know it’s no secret that I harbor no love for George Lucas. His horrendousness is obvious since the very first “Special Edition” versions of the original trilogy, not even bringing up Episodes I-III or Raiders 4(??!?). But I save my vitriol for those - the good folks at Film Threat are taking it a [...]
