That other movie about turn-of-the-century magicians:

The first official still from The Prestige, featuring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as stage magicians and deadly rivals, Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier. Directed by Batman Begins' Chris Nolan, and based on the World Fantasy Award-winning novel by Christopher Priest, the film also stars ( Read more... )

I'VE SEEN DEAD MAN'S CHEST!

AND IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!

( *spoilers* )

I have new CLOTHES. ( cut to spare you of girlishness )

Dailies:

The poster for Crank, starring Jason Statham - as a hit man who has a poison in his blood that will kill him if his heartbeat falls below a certain rate - is kinda weird. (CHUD) [imdb]

Some Polish animation, via Twitch, that you might be interested in, Dae.

5 new clips from Dead Man's Chest are up at Movies.com. You might want to avoid ( Read more... )

Tristram Shandy was WONDERFUL! It's a difficult film to describe, but it should be enough endorsement to say that it's hysterically funny (if you have a normal sense of humour about life, sex, show business, people and art). ( cut for length )

SEAN BEAN and TILDA SWINTON are set to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Come Like Shadows, reports Dark Horizons.

There is some confusion about what the film is actually an adaption of: Dark Horizons thinks it's Shakespeare's play, but it seems to me more likely (not to mention far more interesting) that it's actually based on the book of that ( Read more... )

• The Nation: Heat Wave
  Peter Canby, senior editor for The New Yorker, reviews two books on global warming, Elizabeth Kolbert's "Field Notes From a Catastrophe" and Tim Flannery's "The Weather Makers".
  But in many ways, the most striking thing that emerges from reading these two books and indeed from contemplating the larger phenomenon of global ( Read more... )

Moriaty at Ain't It Cool News gives an early review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Link contains spoilers.

( squeee! )

Bits:

so_spiffed, you're so chummy with the red-white-black colour scheme. Check out this music video for The Knife's "We Share Our Mother's Health". It's pretty cool.

Twitch has links to gorgeous B+W stills from Luc Besson's Angel-A.

Emanuel Levy calls Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow "arguably...the only truly iconic screen character to have yet come out of ( Read more... )

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