John on August 19, 2010
I got passes to a screening tonight and took my two daughters (9 and 6). None of us had seen the first Nanny McPhee (2005), so we weren’t expecting much going in. This is a really fun family film. It reminds me of the old Disney movies, i.e. the Apple Dumpling Gang, Pete’s Dragon. It has some of the same B-movie charm and simplicity. At the same time, the cast [...]
John on August 14, 2010
Pretty cool. They showed this for the first time at Star Wars Celebration: I don’t want to overreact here, but this may have been one of the coolest things in the third film. Why in the world did they cut it? [HT: LA Times Hero Complex]
John on August 8, 2010
This could be fun: Sort of hard to believe this is going to get an actual release in theaters though. I guess it could happen. [Via Nice Deb from Weasel Zippers]
John on August 6, 2010
Just an early trailer. Looks a lot like the first two so far:
John on July 31, 2010
Earlier this month I saw the Swedish film version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and loved it. So when I heard that the sequel was in a few select theaters, I made the trip out to the barren wilderness of Irvine to see it. The Girl Who Played with Fire picks up more or less where the first film left off (I haven’t read the books, so this is [...]
John on July 26, 2010
I’m not a huge fan of the original. It was technically groundbreaking but the film dragged. This looks promising so far: I’ll be seeing it. Hope springs eternal.
John on July 15, 2010
Here it is on the cover of EW: Gotta say, I don’t love this picture. It was clearly Photoshopped but not very well. The mask is at least partially a green overlay on his face. And I realize 2D characters need some texture to make the suits work on film, but come on. Green Lantern’s suit never looked like it belonged in Tron because the suit didn’t have anything to [...]
John on July 15, 2010
Pretty funny: I find myself wondering if they dubbed the voices later or used speaker systems in the helmets to get that crackly PA sound. Yeah, I’m beyond help.
John on July 9, 2010
Blogging will be a bit light today and tomorrow as I am finishing up some grad school work on campus all day. However the other night I did flip on Netflix when I got home and watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is the Swedish film adaptation of the first of Stieg Larsson’s popular novels. Confession: I didn’t read the book. I was thinking about buying it but [...]
John on July 2, 2010
My nine year old daughter is mildly obsessed with the Twilight books. She has read all three and seen the first two films. I thought the first one was so-so and really disliked the second one. But I agreed to take her to see the new one when it came out. So Wednesday we hit the 4PM show. The short version is this: Twilight Eclipse is a pretty good film, [...]
Morgen on June 27, 2010
What do you know, apparently the story of the Karate Kid was based on Barack Obama’s real childhood in Indonesia: You can check out the official site for this impending blockbuster here. I liked this little gem: Senin, 21 Juni 2010, 04:23:01 After some consideration, production team of LITTLE OBAMA, a biopic on the childhood life of the President of the USA, Barrack Obama, has decided to drop praying scene [...]
John on June 4, 2010
A little Friday Fun. Various sources including Superherohype.com and aintitcoolnews.com have turned up art of Marvel’s forthcoming superheroes. I decided to combine a few (plus some random images found around the web) to get an idea of what we might expect from an Avengers movie (click for full size). That’s Bjork as the Scarlet Witch. I don’t even think her character will be in the movie, but she should be, [...]
John on May 17, 2010
Yesterday some friends took me to see the new Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe. I’d read a couple reviews and they weren’t great. They said it wasn’t much fun, that it was long, etc. So I didn’t go in expecting much (besides some kind of liberal lecture about stealing from the rich to give to the poor) and to my surprise I liked it a lot. You get so tired [...]
John on May 9, 2010
There are some spoilers in what follows, so if you care you might want to come back to this after seeing the film… I’ve been reading the reviews. Consensus seems to be that Iron Man 2 is good but not as good as the first film. I agree with this assessment, but I also think I know why. The first film was about Tony Stark. He went from rich playboy [...]
John on April 2, 2010
I just read John Nolte’s review of Clash of the Titans. I was struck by this bit: As Perseus, Worthington is a problem. Hollywood has embraced him as the Next Big Thing, and while it’s nice to see masculinity making a big screen comeback, he’s a bit of a blank slate. It’s like someone grabbed a faceless henchman out of the chorus line of a James Bond movie and made [...]
John on April 1, 2010
Gotta say, this looks like a decent action flick: I was really expecting it to be lame, but is it possible this might be a fun movie?
John on March 17, 2010
Over at Kyle Smith’s blog he has a lively post about the generally poor reviews for Green Zone. This has brought out some defenders of the film including Sol. Sol gets challenged about the politics of the film and eventually lashes out: You think I care what a zero-opportunity, zero talent, VETERAN has to say about me? Don’t be bitter just because I had a few more options in my [...]
John on March 15, 2010
This looks great. Only about 8 more weeks. Can’t wait.
John on March 15, 2010
So sad when a film designed to portray America as the villain doesn’t do well at the domestic box office. So sad and so predictable: Green Zone, reteaming Damon with Paul Greengrass, his director in the last two, very popular Jason Bourne films, earned just $14.5 million in its first three days at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. That’s way below industry predictions (in the low to [...]
