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The Tree Of Life Arrives ...Soon
Terrence Mallick's new movie The Tree of Life is having it's Cannes Festival world premiere screening on May 16th - though it may allegedly or not be arriving in UK cinemas on May 4th. Cannot wait either way. I might even go to the cinema to see it.
Visit www.twowaysthroughlife.com for some more vague info.
15th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Trailer up for the Planet of the Apes prequel. Meh.
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14th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Trailer Park: Hesher Again
Here's another trailer for Hesher - with added Metal.
11th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Beastie Boys
Trailer up for the Beastie Boys' 30 minute cameo-stuffed video epic that premiered at this year's Sundance festival. Could be fun.
8th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Super
Now this is what I expected Kick-Ass to be like.
5th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Hangover Part II
Trailer for the Hangover Part II. Booking a long-haul flight now so I can watch the movie.
1st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Book Of Eli
Decent post apocalypse thriller. Main Q: how does Denzel's iPod 4.0 survive 30 years? Mine died after 3.
28th Mar 2011
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True Grit: Jeff Bridges Style
New instalment of on-set photos up at jeffbridges.com - from True Grit and taken by the man himself. Looks like a fun shoot.
That's Matt Damon's tragoedia/comedia above.
22nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Attack The Block
Decent small-scale London alien invasion from Joe Cornish. Weed jokes, gore and punchy soundtrack. Allow.
21st Mar 2011
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Righteous Kill
De Niro/Pacino as NYC cop partners chasing serial killer/bad poet. Routine.
21st Mar 2011
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The Brothers Bloom
Messy conmen ramble. Disappointing entry from Rian "Brick" Johnson .
20th Mar 2011
Read more 2 star reviewsTron 1.5
I haven't seen Tron 2 - but if reports are to be believed it's as lacking as the original. On that note, here's a short film that features on the blu-Ray disc and Bridges (get it?) the gap between the two films, as well as unfortunately signalling that more may be coming.
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Super 8
Full trailer up for Super 8, from JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg. Looks to combine the best of both.
14th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Nazi 3D Films Discovered
I thought this was an Onion spoof when I first saw it, but apparently the Nazis were shooting in 3D as far back as 1936 - 16 years before Hollywood first started its tedious flirtation with the gimmick.
They probably invented it so they could shoot Iron Sky in the format.
8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Easy Rider - The Ride Back
No, it's not a porno remake - it's an actual sequel/prequel to 60's classic Easy Rider. Not sure how connected the production actually is with the original. According to the blurb:
"The long awaited prequel/sequel to one of the highest grossing independent films of all time, "Easy Rider" defined the thoughts and values of a generation. EASY RIDER: THE RIDE BACK shows through flashbacks how these much loved characters became the classic icons of a generation."
Looks like a total turd to me.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monkeys
New, chimp-friendly short up from bluetongue films - the collective behind Animal Kingdom and Hesher, as well as numerous outstanding short films.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Bass Notes: The film posters of Saul Bass
The Kemistry gallery on Charlotte Road in Shoreditch are running an exhibition of some of Saul Bass' poster until March 17th.
Mon-Fr: 10-6pm
Sat 11-4pm
Entrance is free
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hesher Vision: Old Men With Lightsabers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's new film Hesher seems to be building up some viral promo. Check out Hesher's own YouTube and Facebook pages.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Oscar Predictions
It's Hollywood's big night tonight and while The King's Speech might have cleaned up at the BAFTAs, the winners aren't as easy to predict here. Luckily, Heidi the boss-eyed possum (bossum?) is providing some tips to the betting German.
27th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Hesher
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets in touch with his inner hesher, in Sundance hit Hesher. Starring Natalie Portman too, of course.
21st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Radiohead - Lotus Flower
It seems to be UK only, so I haven't actually watched it here in Berlin - but I'm assuming the new Radiohead video for 'Lotus Flower' will be worth a few minutes of your time.
My copy of the new album will arrive in approximately 14 minutes. German WIFI. Bah!
18th Feb 2011 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: X-Men - The Mad Men Years
"Charles" and "Erik", not exactly the most badass superhero names you'll ever hear... Enjoyed Kick-Ass from director Matthew Vaughn so this might be ok; on the other hand, as Wolverine: The Wonder Years showed, there's very little peril involved in these prequels where we know who makes it to the later films.
11th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Superbowl Special
At $3m for 30 seconds (or something like that), a spot during the Superbowl ad break is advertising nirvana, with many advertisers creating special spots that air only once. Nothing particularly flashy about this one ...just a clever idea, well made. With a very large licensing budget.
7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Beginners
Indie alert: trailer up for Mike Mills' new feature - Beginners, with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Think there might be some idea-pooling going on in the Mills' household. Wife Miranda July's latest movie The Future is narrated by a cat.
31st Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: She & Him
Promo up for "Don't Look Back" from M.Ward / Zooey Deschanel side-project She & Him.
28th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Animal Kingdom UK Release
looks like the excellent Animal Kingdom we've enjoyed so much is getting a UK cinema release, 25 February
12th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Blue Tongue Films
I was so impressed by David Michod's debut feature Animal Kingdom that I've spent the last few days stalking him and his friends on the internet. Turns out they have a film collective called BlueTonguefilms that have put out a swathe of excellent short films, including Crossbow (something of a precursor to Animal Kingdom) and Oscar Nominee Miracle Fish. Also don't miss the excellent Netherland Dwarf, or Nash Edgerton's Spider.
11th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
MCA Health Update
Good news, Beastie Boy MCA is apparently in good shape after battling cancer. Hot Sauce Committee Part II will be arriving soon and alter-ego Nathanial Hornblower even has a film in the Sundance Film Festival.
7th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Animal Kingdom
nice use of Air Supply in this recommended Aussie underworld thriller
7th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Slow Motion Fruit
What's so special about a cheesy ad with some slow motion fruit?
31st Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Tree of Life
I rate him as one of the greatest living directors alongside Peter Weir, so you can imagine how excited I was when the trailer for Terrence Malick's Tree of Life came online today. I already watched a hooky bootleg last week, but now it's in glorious 1080p over at Apple.
Looks great, but still no real expalnation of what it's about ...with a retro life story seemingly juxtaposed with some sort of sc-fi element. I love movies.
15th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Assassination of Yogi Bear, by the Coward Boo Boo
Great Yogi Bear / Jesse James mash-up online at YouTube, giving the bears some real emotion.
14th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
14 Actors Acting
Nice photo + video piece over at The New York Times, with 14 Hollywood A-listers playing 14 classic film archetypes. James Franco comes out well as usual, but so do Michael Douglas, Tilda Swinton and others.
Shot by photographer Solve Sundsbo, on the forthcoming Red Epic digital cinema camera.
10th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The All-new Beastie Boys
Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride will play the Beastie Boys in MCA/Nathanial Hornblower's short film "Fight for Your Right Revisited", which will debut in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Details are thin at the moment, but it appears the film will address all those unanswered questions of what happened following the original video....
8th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Nice Beaver
It's release has been on ice since his recent meltdown, but Mel Gibson's new flick The Beaver could just break that ice....
6th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Irvin Kershner
More sad news today, director Irvin Kershner has died. In many ways he's a little known director, but to every chimp he is the man responsible for lifting the Star Wars saga from 'blockbuster' to 'epic'. His fantastic touch on The Empire Strikes Back elevated Star Wars into a totally different league, with classy assured direction and some beautifully storyboarded scenes - particularly those light on effects. A true master.
29th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Leslie Nielsen
RIP comedy legend Leslie Nielsen. And don't call him Shirley.
29th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Source Code
Groundhog Day meets Inception anyone? new WTF sci-fi from Duncan "Moon" Jones - Source Code. thanks to a top secret US government dept with some cool tech, soldier Jake Gyllenhaal can relive 8 minutes of someone else's life - is it long enough to find a bomber / fall in love on a speeding train?
22nd Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
BFI Printstore
cool collection of posters from the BFI's online store
19th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer park: Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern
couple of new trailers up at Apple: yeehaw UFO tale Cowboys & Aliens with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford; and Green Lantern - aliens give Ryan Reynolds a magic ring;
18th Nov 2010 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Battle Los Angeles
Only the use of autotune seems to differentiate the trailer for Battle Los Angeles from Independence Day, but it might just be enough.
12th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Blitz
The boys are back in town for this Jason Statham-led UK serial killer thriller, also starring Paddy Considine and that irish guy that's the mayor in The Wire ....who steals this trailer with one of his lines: "I want a lawyer and a sandwich. And I want to update my Facebook status."
11th Nov 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria
Great short from David Blair the director of WAX: Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees, which still stands as one of the craziest, most original films I've ever seen
3rd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Back to Back to the Future
The Back To The Future Blu-ray box has hit the shops and some of the extras are popping up on YouTube - including some rushes with Eric Stoltz in the Marty McFly role ...before he was replaced by Michael J Fox.
As a double geek-out, a recent episode of Fringe set in their parallel universe featured two of the watchers coming out a movie theatre, showing the Eric Stoltz version of the film.
26th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: More Mark Gonzales
Following a successful art career, legendary skater Mark Gonzales can be seen out and about again more and more.... Here's a nice little day-in-the-life from 2009.
21st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Back To The Future Merch
$15k auto-lacing Nike's too steep for you? You might have to settle for a copy of Oh La La.
Via Uncrate.
18th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Social Network
(dir. David Fincher)
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You may wonder where the drama is in a story following the rise of Facebook - and it's a legitimate question. Maestro director David Fincher put this film into quick production and with a script from The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin there was plenty of promise. The script is masterfully done and with some great performances from Rodger Dodger's Jesse Eisenberg and soon-to-be Peter Parker Andrew Garfield there's much to admire.
Like most biopics however, there's both an inevitability and a lack of tension to the narrative. At least with Titanic the inevitable conclusion involved the world's biggest ship hitting an iceberg and sinking. Unfortunately there's no iceberg here. Yawn.
18th Oct 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
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DIY Stormtrooper Halloween (1977)
great homemade Stormtrooper costume from 1977 (via @boingboing)
15th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: Guy Mariano
Nice little video series over at VBS.tv following the career of Guy Mariano, who made his name as a kid in Ban This and Video Days, then as a teenager in Mouse - before disappearing until a come back in 2007's Fully Flared from Lakai. Look out for some extra footage from skate-classic Video Dayz with a young Jason Lee doing his thing.
14th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet