District 9

As I get older and busier with work and life activities, and have less time to go see movies, I often leave theaters thinking “well that was a waste of time, I could’ve just watched that at home.”  We do make time to go to the theater once in a while, but only if there’s [...]

Lots of movies

Movies I watched last week:

Spirited Away Rififi Touch of Evil Rear Window The Hurt Locker District 9 The Machinist

Wow. I should be more productive, but unfortunately started watching Mad Men this week. So there go another 20ish hours.

Aboard the Battleship Pretension

I started listening to back episodes of a new podcast, Battleship Pretension, thanks to a recent /Filmcast episode, on which the two guys from the BP podcast were guests. The two hosts, Tyler and David, sit down for an hour a week and discuss some random topic related to film or television. Examples: [...]

The Guerrilla

The AV Club did an interview with Steven Soderbergh about his new project Che.

I don’t know what I’ll think about a 4+ hour biopic. I’m ready to see it though.

The best film visual effects shots

I don’t normally like “Top 10″ linkbait lists, but this one was pretty fantastic. It includes shots from a wide range of films, some of them technically masterful, others simply creative uses of light, model work, and sound. The writer of the post seems to have a pretty good knowledge of film SFX [...]

Mann movies

Apparently I’m on a Michael Mann movie kick lately. Out of the last 5 Netflix movies I’ve received, 3 have been Mann films: Heat, The Insider, and Collateral. Each of them I enjoyed thoroughly. In order of quality from best to worst — Insider, Heat, Collateral.

I just read that Mann’s next project [...]

WALL-E

Colette and I went down to Baywalk to watch Wall•E last night. It’s become sort of a tradition that we do date nights to go watch Pixar movies. We did that with Cars, Ratatouille, and now this one. We both thoroughly enjoyed it, even though we almost missed the short at the [...]

Deep Water: a race gone wrong

Deep Water is a documentary detailing the true story of Donald Crowhurst, a businessman who’s company was falling apart during the 1960s. With his company going under, he became desperate for money, driving him to enter the London Times Golden Globe sailing tournament. As an amateur in an around-the-world sailing race, it would [...]

The Making of Dr. Strangelove

Several videos have sprouted up of a documentary called Inside: Dr Strangelove detailing the making of the film, one of my all-time favorites. It’s a 5-part series behind-the-scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s classic, the blackest of black comedies. Strangelove has always been mysterious to me. Everything from the odd sense of humor and [...]

Watchmen Teaser from Comic-Con 2007

IGN just put up the teaser poster for the upcoming Watchmen movie unveiled at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. On the poster is the release date: 03-06-09. Damn that’s a long way off. If Zack Snyder can do with this what he did with 300, I’ll go out on a limb [...]