Moon (official website): Moon is a rather hard SF movie, the feature-length writing and directing debut of Duncan Jones. In the future, Helium-3 mined from the moon is the source of abundant and cheap energy for the world. Sam Bell is the lone occupant of one such mining base, two weeks from the end of his three-year contract, with only the ( Read more... )

Well, shit. That last one got blitzed. Twenty this time...

1. Sir, I don't think driving under the influence can be called a "little indiscretion." Hot Fuzz, polarbee2. Let me show you where the Major is ( Read more... )

It's a slow Friday... 10 movie quotes, name the movie.

1. "We're twenty minutes from landing. Do you want to play it easy, or the hard way? And this isn't a tranquilizer gun." Goldfinger, trillian42

2. "I've been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you. Now I find you in exactly the position that ( Read more... )

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I forget whether it was on jedi_tri_girl or bride's advice, but I read the His Dark Materials trilogy. When I bought the book, it mentioned a future movie, but without any production information, I figured it had been optioned and would remain "in development" forever.

It really is a clever bit of viral marketing; the interactivity with your friends means that ( Read more... )

I laughed more at Hot Fuzz than any other movie in a while. The movie is a phenomenal send-up of the cop action movie genre (distinct from the police procedural drama movie). I liked Shaun of the Dead (done by the same team) a lot, but as someone who isn't particularly a fan of the original zombie movie genre, some of the jokes didn't hit home ( Read more... )

Oh my god.

A Scanner Darkly is one bad trip.

Richard Linklater is a god of dialogue.

"Two roads diverged in a movie, and I--
I took them both at the same time
And that has made all the difference."

(Robert Frost, writing about a photon.)

At the end of the movie, as the credits began to roll, I burst into laughter and fight to stifle it; laughter of the Izzie Stevens inappropriate laughter for these sorts of situations ( Read more... )

Last night, I looked at the movie listings for the primary local independent theatres, the Lagoon Cinema and the Uptown Theatre, and I saw that today would be the last day the movie Three... Extremes (imdb) would be showing. It's a compilation film, with three short horror films by Fruit Chan (Hong Kong), Chan-wook Park (Korea), and Takashi Miike ( ( Read more... )