We saw Neil Marshall's Doomsday last night, which is more or less completely mad. With barely a whiff of credibility it throws a cyberpunk heroine into battles against apocalyptic road gangs and medieval knights, with a bit of Aliens and Twenty Eight Days Later thrown in for kicks. And it works, though it takes a while for the build-up of absurdity ( Read more... )

Last week we watched Your Highness, so in reparation for our sins it was The Big Sleep this time round. I really don't think I followed it all, but it was certainly awesomely cool on the way.

Saw Griff the Invisible this evening -- more Aussie weirdness, this case in the cause of superheroics. Probably best not to delve too deeply (and the trailer on the main site seems to give most of it away), but it was fun, and charming.

We've just seen The Square, in the fine tradition of weird Aussie crime flicks. Having said that, it all turns out a bit muddled, so lacks the power of some of its compatriots -- but there's some fine stuff on the way. The fact it was shot down in the Woronora Valley near us was also neat.

More strangeness: last week I saw (500) Days of Summer. I saw 'I' because K took debunked on the flimsy prefix that one of her friends has Othello on (no doubt I should have gone, but am still sickly ( Read more... )

Last night we saw Summer Wars, upon recommendation. It's a strange anime of family solidarity and cyber-warfare. From a traditional daimyo homestead, Kenji and Natsuki must defend OZ (ie, the internet if Second Life ever took off) and the world from an AI super-villain called Love Machine ( Read more... )

We saw Limitless, which is well made and pretty cool -- though full of frustrating bits where we were berating the main character for being stupid. Given the nature of the movie, that's a bit sad ( Read more... )

We saw Enigma, a Bletchley Park movie about which I didn't know many specifics. It was quite odd to go in thinking it was probably about Alan Turing, and have our dashing young hero chasing skirt all movie. But it had some interesting stuff to say about the war and code-breaking along the way.

Hopefully it's not a spoiler to say that Shaun Tan gets a reference in today's DA crossword.

In the meantime, we've been playing LA Noire, and discovering that Hot Tub Time Machine is somewhat less interesting than rumoured ( Read more... )

We saw The American this week, in which George Clooney is an American assassin hiding out in rural Italy. It's slow and charming, in a traditional way (hookers with a heart of gold, and such), and worth a watch.

The disc also had the trailer for The Adjustment Bureau, which I hadn't previously seen. Looks like Dark City without the good bits ( Read more... )