By most accounts, Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, which attracted equal parts cheers and jeers at its world premiere overnight at the Venice Film Festival, is an unorthodox creature. Featuring little in the way of a standard narrative, and apparently even less dialogue, it relies on evocative atmosphere, and starkly Continue Reading
Movies
Poster me this! New promo art for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thor: The Dark World, Homeland (season 3), Gravity, All Is Lost
It would abundantly obvious by now that I am a man in love with movie posters (as well as my partner, caramel cheesecakes and Vancouver Canada, none of which are germane to the topic at hand right now alas). And it’s easy to understand why this colourful, often imaginative Continue Reading
Jude Law is Dom Hemingway and, um, you’re NOT … simple as that (movie poster)
SNAPSHOT Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting Continue Reading
Go nuts with fear: Timur Bekmambetov readies us for a world where Squirrels attack
SNAPSHOT When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Dallas Buyers Club
SNAPSHOT Matthew McConaughey stars in “Dallas Buyers Club” as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #2 – Enough Said, All is Lost, Inside Llewyn Davis, Instructions Not Included, Zaytoun
So many trailers, so little time to get the popcorn, hold the soda and recline the comfy cinema chair … To save you all the effort of scouring the internet for yourselves, I have assembled five trailers for movies I think will be worth the effort going to see Continue Reading
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new promo images + a LEGO trailer
SNAPSHOT After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest–without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill Continue Reading
Shhh! Be vewy, vewy qwiet … Neil Patrick Harris has made a silent movie
Is there nothing that Neil Patrick Harris can’t do and do spectacularly well? I say no! My proof? He hosts the Tonys, performs magic like a pro, is a star on How I Met Your Mother, has two of the most adorable children with his partner, David Burtka … Continue Reading
Movie review: “Now You See Me”
Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??
It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading