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Whenever a release goes big at the movies, the design world instantly jumps on the bandwagon of capitalizing that cultural momentum and acumen. That’s what art student Calvin Lin did right after the recent release of long-awaited superhero blockbuster The Avengers. He took the movie’s most prominent characters, added some other major planet-saving figures into the mix and came up with a [...]
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Visual artist Wonchan Lee, who identifies himself as a typomaniac, has taken the posters of most box office hits produced by the geniuses at Pixar and ran away with them, down a minimalist, amusing route. It’s uncanny how a single visual element an a monochromatic, unitary background, can still be evocative and filled with meaning. He mostly uses strong neon colors for [...]
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Ever wondered why we have movie posters in the first place? What is their purpose? Why, to draw you into the movie theater and the world of the film at hand, of course. Film-poster aficionado, contributor Ali at The Shiznit has decided to take a look at this year’s major Oscar contenders, what with award season having taken us all over by [...]
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Aliens, beware! Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones are officially back, in the third installment of the Men in Black series. Well, they’re not back just yet, but they’re comin’ atcha next Memorial Day, namely on May 25, 2012. And they’re comeback won’t just be your run-of-the-mill good old sequel. Oh, no. The alien-catchers’ return will hit the planet in 3D and iMAX [...]
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Have you met John Carter, a.k.a. John Carter of Mars? His ‘dad’ is one cool guy, a notorious author of pulp fiction and serialized novels, who provided imaginative fodder for the masses way before the advent of television and the magic of TV series that came along with it. The name’s Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the loincloth donning, animal-language speaking Tarzan [...]
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What do you make of all the storybook retellings brewing in production these days? Some glossed-up Hollywood-ized fairy tales have already come out and have been panned for their insolence – I’m looking at you, Red Riding Hood! – while others, like next summer’s Snow White and the Huntsman, are still to grace our screens. And grace they shall, as most of [...]
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Known to many TV-lovers and nostalgists as “that girl from Dawson’s Creek,” Michelle Williams has lost the baby fat since that breakthrough role and couldn’t gain it back, not even for her turn as Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming My Week with Marilyn that’s expected to blow casual moviegoers’ and critics’ minds alike come the 23rd of November. She used foam padding [...]
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After playing Hunter S. Thompson’s drug-addled alter ego in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and after footing the bill for the gonzo journalist’s funeral 6 years ago, Johnny Depp is reconnecting with his late friend. From beyond the grave, Thompson’s voice will be springing to life again on the silver screen thanks to Depp’s new portrayal of one of the writer’s [...]
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This November, Clint Eastwood is bringing to the screen the real story of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI – and we’re expecting the director to pull another Million Dollar Baby on Oscar watchers through hard-hitting “truths” about the controversial man. Among the big reveals in store, those the trailer pretty much spells out are Hoover’s cloak-and-dagger-ing ways which [...]
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Coming across a gazillion trailers on a daily basis, I can safely say this one preview, for an indie documentary – of all genres – is unique. It sweet-talks the viewer into exiting his or her immediate surroundings and entering a world of possibilities that’s cracking ajar in the space of just over 2 minutes. Coming to select theaters on the last [...]
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I read somewhere that filmmakers – and audiences – go into making period flicks because those days still had taboos, and they serve as (then) believable antagonists to adventurous, even trail-blazing main characters. It’s mainly the reason behind my craving to see David Cronenberg’s latest outing, A Dangerous Method, which explores the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael [...]
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Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar is cashing in on a 1980s mentorship, with then novice Andonio Banderas now playing the lead in his horror thriller La piel que habito (which you’ll find translated as both The Skin I Live In and The Skin I Inhabit), after more than two decades of “slumming” it in Hollywood. The flick, which opens this month at Telluride [...]
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Overly wordy name notwithstanding, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is set to give viewers a breathtaking ride with not a second to waste on checking their watches. Opening tomorrow in US theaters, Hark Tsui’s latest fight-in-flight (wuxia) cinematic journey finds a solid counterweight for America’s subtitle-phobia in stellar European reviews. If the Mandarin doesn’t put you off and [...]
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Rowan Atkinson, whose go-gross-or-go-home take on comedic characters spawned some of the funniest shows on British television to date – the likes of The Black Adder or Mr. Bean are arguably unparalleled – is applying his craft to another James Bond spoof. Eight years after Johnny English, and four years shy of his fiftieth birthday, he’s Reborn as the title character, adding [...]
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Just days apart, Nic Cage’s “darkest hero” and his drabbest suburban dad yet have taken to the trailer platform. In the latter, formulaic-looking, Cage starrer there’s no whiff left of the skeletal biker’s leather-and-chain shenanigans. In stead, Cage goes for a run-of-the-mill suit-and-tie style – or lack thereof, with plenty of Cage’s hunchback sadly in sight – and he’s joined in this [...]
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What would you do if home invaders killed your parents, who, as it turns out, weren’t your parents at all, and then you ended up being chased by all kinds of dodgy people who talked in riddles about your true identity and called you “a high-valued asset?” With so far-fetched a script that nobody would even think of asking themselves that question, [...]
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As fans of classical music and plain old cinephiles alike will surely know, Mozart’s life has been the subject of several biopics, one of which won 8 of the Academy’s top laurels back in 1985 (Amadeus). Opening this week in limited release, Mozart’s Sister is a 2010 French period flick, also a biopic-type gem for the history buff and the musicophile, only [...]
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What if the financial crisis didn’t just happen, what if there was a small window of time where it could’ve been turned around, but someone decided otherwise? Margin Call addresses that in hard-to-swallow detail. As topical themes go, this isn’t a shocker, but it does promise a couple of hours of sheer tension, moral corruption, dread and greed fit to turn your [...]
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This Novemburr (their pun, not mine!) director George Miller is bringing the sexy… er, the penguins back, in style, for the second outing of kiddy flick Happy Feet. The newly released trailer for the anticipated sequel promises more of the same, which is a tried and true formula where the merry bunch of fur balls are all singing their flippers off. This [...]
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Dickensian urchin Hugo Cabret, a newly-orphaned twelve-year-old that, on paper, caught the fancy of children everywhere back in 2007, will now see his name in big-screen lights in a Martin Scorsese-directed fantasy flick. In Brian Selznick’s bestseller The Invention of Hugo Cabret, mixed-media type of book whose pull for youngsters is as much to do with words as illustrations, the lead kid [...]
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Fitting snugly inside the doom’s day pattern that so many movies today dwell on ad nauseam, Contagion looks to be a notch above the fold, as it touches on the philosophical implications of your run-of-the-mill virus-borne apocalypse. Revolving around a pandemic of catastrophic proportions, Contagion switches between a heart-rending record of how the virus impacts the lives of common people and glimpses behind closed [...]
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