Went to see Prometheus last night, and in the pub afterwards explicated a theory about how it was all to do with punishment for the Crucifixion, solar myth, Osiris, Prometheus the Titan as a Christ prototype, the Golden Bough and so on.

Came here this morning to share it with you all, only to find that some other so-and-so has already had ( Read more... )

At the pictures the other night, saw a trailer for new film Anonymous, in which the Earl of Oxford writes Shakespeare's plays ( Read more... )

Person is trying to make film about "the story of Radiohead, Ride, Supergrass, Foals, Swervedriver, Talulah Gosh and the tiny local music scene that spawned them". You can give him money to do so, in exchange for various enticements from a copy of the DVD upwards. Up to and including an Executive Producer credit - how nice! And who knows, you might ( Read more... )

We went to see Ponyo the other day, the new (to the UK) Miyazaki film. Headline summary: if you like Miyazaki, you will probably like this one too. It doesn't break new ground -- if anything, it's more similar in tone to oldies like Totoro and Kiki than his other recent films. On the other hand, if the whole Studio Ghibli thing is new to you, then ( Read more... )

I had been vaguely aware that there was a new, animated film of Fantastic Mr Fox around, but it wasn't until just recently that I realized it was by Wes Anderson. So I went to see it, with T, last night ( Read more... )

We went to see Coraline yesterday -- this was my first encounter with this new-fangled extra dimension, or at least my first encounter with it that didn't involve red / green glasses ( Read more... )

Potentially excellent news this morning, via newsoftheweird -- a sequel to one of my favourite films.

(Warning: don't search IMDB for the name of the sequel just yet, unless you want to learn a great deal about the doings of German schoolgirls inthe early 70s.)

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now?"

For some reason one of my addresses gets a load of spam related to screenwriting. Normally it's just plugging courses etc, but I got this very specific one the other day:
SQuid Brothers, INC. is looking for a completed, feature length dark drama or gritty thriller scripts which involve a hardened male character (24-28 preferred but not required) ( Read more... )

• Went the other night to see Burn after Reading, the new Coen brothers film. We thought it was pretty good fun: just a fairly shallow piece of fluff really, but there's nothing wrong with that. The galaxy of stars (Malkovich, Swinton, McDormand, Pitt, Clooney) all put in entertaining turns. It kind of cops out and runs out of steam at the end, but ( Read more... )

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