Films
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview with a Metabaron
I’ve been digging through the archives again. After a seven year wait, the final volume of cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s graphic novel series The Metabarons is getting a long-overdue English language release this week. What follows is an interview I did with Jodorowsky back in 2002 for the much-loved, but sadly no-longer-with-us, comics magazine Borderline. [...]
Movie Haiku: My Top 100 Films of the Decade (Part 2 of 4)
Here’s my second batch of favourite films of the last decade in haiku-form, which covers number 75 through to 51. For 100 through to 76 scroll up or go here. More to come… _____________________________________________________ 75. Drag Me To Hell (dir. Sam Raimi, 2009) Raimi’s zeitgeist surf As bank clerk is damned Due to Evil Debt [...]
Nathan Fillion is the Green Lantern
Well, no, he isn’t really – and he probably won’t be, either – but we all know in our hearts that he should be. Here’s a rather clever fan-made trailer from someone who agrees…
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek
The New Yorker’s legendarily outspoken film critic Pauline Kael once said of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan “Now that’s more like it.” At least, I think that’s what she said. Whatever the case, it’s a phrase that went through my mind last night as the credits went up at the end of JJ [...]
Boldly Going Out
My brother and I will be off to see JJ Abrams’ Star Trek at the Birmingham Imax this evening and – I must admit – I’m rather looking forward to it. As a lapsed Trekker, I’ve almost forgotton how that feels. To actually look forward to a Star Trek fim… why, that’s a sensation I [...]
What the Nyuk?
From Variety: MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for “The Three Stooges.” Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard. The [...]
My Movie Alphabet
Here’s something fairly inconsequential for you. This is a meme I saw on Rol’s blog late last year. Rol heard about it here, but I believe it originated from here. In any case, the idea is to select a favourite film to represent each letter of the alphabet. As I have lots of favourite films [...]
Watchmen: Bigger, Louder and Uncut
I went to see Watchmen last night. As a somewhat obsessive fan of the original comic book (alright then, graphic novel), I expected this to be something of a Manichean moviegoing experience. I’d leave the theatre either loving or hating the film, hailing Zack Snyder as a cinematic genius or denouncing him as the New [...]
Re-reading the Watchmen
As you might have already noticed, the Watchmen movie comes out this week. Unlike most online commentators with geekazoid tendancies, I’ll try my best to reserve judgement on the film until I’ve actually seen the damn thing. Whether I end up loving it film or loathing it, at least it’s given me an excuse to [...]
The Sixth Degree of Christopher Lee
This evening we returned to Birmingham after spending the last few days visiting Clare’s family in the South Kent coastal town of Hythe. It’s a 400-odd mile round trip, so forgive me if I sound exhausted. My Kerouac gland ain’t what it used to be. As well as being a pretty town that’s been steeped, [...]
Et in Arcade ego
Despite my numerous misgivings about the soon-to-be released movie adaptation of Watchmen, its ingenious viral marketing campaign continues to bring out the worst out in me. The latest is a an 80s-style, 8-bit, beat-em-up arcade game manufactured by Watchmen’s fictional Veidt Industries. I shouldn’t like it, but I can’t stop playing it. Insert Coin HERE.
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