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What this is: a pretty good, very stylish and often quite funny Cold War spy romp.

What this is not: a film with Illya Kuryakin in it.

Oh, it has a character called Illya Kuryakin, but he's not the Kuryakin of the TV series as played in a career-making role by David McCallum. Armie Hammer plays the film version as a suaver version of Arnold ( Read more... )

(Warning: cut-text discussion contains spoilers up to the end of S4 of Person of Interest)

This was a Christmas present to myself, so S and I sat down to watch it last night. I've long been aware of C:TFP but had never actually seen it; my interest was reignited by seeing a comment from Jonathan Nolan that it had been one of his inspirations for ( Read more... )

attimes_bracing commented a little while back that she'd seen very few classic sf movies, and wondered about catching up. So, last night, we started with Forbidden Planet.

Now, I hadn't watched FP for literally decades. I have a dim memory of us showing it at a video night at the SF club at university, and I'd definitely seen it before I first went to see Return ( Read more... )

Until I read this Metafilter post I hadn't heard of Kyle Kallgren and his film review site Brows Held High, but on the strength of these two videos I'm going to have to keep an eye on him.

First, Kyle analyses one of my favourite Shakespeare adaptations, Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen's Richard III. How did I miss the cinematic reference in ( Read more... )

Meh.

This film really didn't grab me. Pacific Rim didn't take itself at all seriously, and had a huge sense of fun despite what was actually a very dark scenario. Godzilla is ponderously serious - or rather it tries to have a air of ponderous seriousness, without actually getting any gravitas or serious emotional investment out of its cast, ( Read more... )

The Marvel Cinematic Universe does Three Days of the Condor style 1970s political paranoia thriller, and succeeds impressively well. It doesn't hurt that Robert Redford plays a major role, but in that respect so does Washington DC, a city that, via a hundred political thrillers and dramas, has become a character in its own right. In one very nice ( Read more... )

It's been a long wait, but Part I of cairmen's World of Warcraft Machinima fan movie Death Knight Love Story is now online!



More info at the dedicated film site

Time I think to repost my report on photographing the Brian Blessed recording session.

This entry was originally posted at http://major-clanger.dreamwidth.org/18928.html, where there are
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 Via this Metafilter post I learn that there is a biopic about Frank Sidebottom / Chris Sievey, starring Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and that this is an actual thing.

Best comment so far to the Guardian article this links to:

"I can't wait for the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic of John Shuttleworth, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as ( Read more... )

The Daily Dot asks whether a movie can fail the Bechdel Test but still be respectful of female characters, and suggests that Pacific Rim is evidence that it can.

It's an interesting argument, and I think there is a good case to be made that Pacific Rim does very well as a film with effective female characters except for the Bechdel Test. It ( Read more... )