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"Inflation of scale is coupled with deflation of ambition: Emmerich’s career has been a prolonged exercise in lowering our expectations so that we accept what he dishes up without question. It works to a point." Click through for full item.
"When audiences expect sites to update with new content at least daily, that's a huge demand on the author; 140 characters allows for the faster turnover without the chore factor...
"Lowenstein doesn’t go for a low budget approach to this low budget lifestyle. Instead he and his cinematographer, Andrew de Groot, use a widescreen format and slick, gliding camerawork to make the house and its inhabitants look like a million misspent dollars." Click through for full item.
"... here's some test footage of an aborted Disney adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are directed by none other than future Pixar supremo John Lasseter." Click through for full item.
"When a society of actors give out awards, they give out awards for acting; when a society of directors give out awards, they recognise directing; but critics' associations give awards to those in other professions...
"It is, I think, profoundly difficult to reconcile a film as heartfelt and profound as The Pianist with Polanski's reprehensible actions from decades earlier...
Hi all. My review of Duncan Jones' excellent sci-fi flick Moon is up now at Cinephobia. You can find it here. The bad news is I've had a hard drive crash...
"Suffice to say Moon is exceptionally good, and Dogs in Space deserves its reputation, even if it's hard to make any grand claim for its artistic merit." Click through for full item/a>.
As both explanation and apology for my absence over the last couple of months, I have posted to Cinephobia part of the research on depictions of community in film that has kept me away from the page so much...
"Frankly, it would be nice if a big Hollywood blockbuster would feature some imagery as insane as the shark eating the Golden Gate Bridge, or the very last shot of this trailer." (Click through for full item)
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First trailer for the Asylum's upcoming Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus film.
"The internet, and the forum cut-and-thrust on sites like Ain't It Cool, seems to have bred geeks into a more argumentative, sarcastic breed (a la The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy) than the sheltered losers in this sketch." (Click through for full item)
