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3 articles from 2009

27 December 2009 2:32 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Well, the lack of screenings last week allowed me to take in a lot more films at home, on top of being able to show my family some they had yet to see over the holiday weekend. So, without further delay let's dig in as I have nine films to talk about this week and I have spread them out over two pages.

Julia (2009) Quick Thoughts: There have been a few folks around the Internet cheering for Tilda Swinton's performance in Julia as the best lead female performance of 2009. After finally seeing the film I am willing to concede it is definitely a good performance, but I can't quite understand where the over-the-top adulation from some corners is all about. The film itself is also quite entertaining, especially considering it is too long. However, I realize now the best way to fill your film with Tons of cliches is »

- Brad Brevet

23 December 2009 7:46 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

I haven't seen Avatar yet, and I'm waiting to discover why a film in which not a single clip I've seen so far thrills me is going to rock my world. But I love these ten random notes on the film by Anne Billson over at her Multiglom blog. Like this one on technology and alien sex: James Cameron has developed millions of dollars' worth of technology in order to deliver the message that technology is bad. Crazy guy! Basically, he's a techno geek who's emotionally stuck at adolescence. His idea of alien sex is sloppy kissing! It's alien sex as envisaged by an adolescent male whose role model is Captain Kirk. I'd like to see the Na'vi having slimy sex like David Bowie in The Man who Fell to Earth. Or tree-huggy sex. Whatever. A wasted »

- Scott Macaulay

8 June 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Sam Rockwell as a lonely astronaut in Duncan Jones's directorial debut, Moon. When did the science fiction genre of filmmaking devolve into science fission—movies in which the nuclear-size explosions and destruction came to matter more than character development?  I suspect the White House destruction scene in the 1996 film Independence Day was a pivotal moment, as was the bing-bang-boom chaos of Michael Bay’s 1998 space soap opera Armageddon. Since then, too many writers and directors of science fiction movies seem to have forgotten that the classics of the genre have more to do with society and humanity than pyrotechnics and even special effects. And if you agree with this premise, then I urge you to see an independent film called Moon that Sony Pictures Classics will release beginning Friday, June 12, in New York and Los Angeles and nationwide over the next few weeks. If you haven’t already heard a lot about the picture, »

3 articles from 2009