I went down to the Harvard Film Archive this evening, to try to meet up with a group I'd heard of online. I didn't actually see any of them -- traffic, plus finding my way there for the first time, made me get there a bit later than I'd expected -- but I caught the film anyways. It was... surreal ( Read more... )

Apparently Pride and Prejudice and Zombies may be made into a movie starring Natalie Portman. Am I crazy, or does that sound like a wagonful of awesome? *grin*

I just stumbled over the Super Bowl spot and the international teaser trailer. They don't suck, and they also don't give much away. It remains to be seen whether M. Night Shyamalan's casting decision to put in mostly Caucasian actors to represent decidedly non-Caucasian characters is anything but hubris. (I remain doubtful, since the original ( Read more... )

I just realized, on listening to the newly released Sherlock Holmes score, that Hans Zimmer pulled an interesting and subtle trick with the theme during the confrontation near Parliament. (On the soundtrack, it's the 18-minute track titled "Psychological Recovery... 6 Months".) He made the theme a minor-key variation on the Big Ben chime, which ( Read more... )

I woke up yesterday feeling awful -- congested, with an aggravatingly sore throat. I dragged myself off to work regardless since, you know, end of quarter. Finished up around 11 am, grabbed some lunch, and went to catch James Cameron's new film Avatar.

( Here's what I thought. )

Last night I was talking with liz_marcs, and persuaded her that we might go to see 2012 when it comes out and MST3K it -- sheerly as a survival mechanism, of course. Given all the evidence of it being absolutely horrible (Michael Bay movie, overblown disaster scenes, enormous budget dedicated to marketing to the "oooooh explosions!" crowd to the probable ( Read more... )

OK, so I went to catch a showing of Babylon A.D. last night.

( Spoilers within. )

Or so it seems, anyways -- half busy, half lazy; half things coming together, half things not working at all; half relaxing, half crazy tension.

( In which I go on at some length. )