“None of you will do anything except live the life … set out for you & sometime around your third donation your short life will be complete…” Never Let Me Go is a modern day tragedy with a subtle sci-fi twist based on an award winning book by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s about a girl called Kathy H & her two classmates, their time in a sheltered boarding school & their time together afterwards. There is something not quite right about their lives [...]
Holy sh*t! was my reaction to Jack “300 / Watchmen” Snyder’s first trailer for Sucker Punch, recently unveiled at Comic Con, and I wasn’t even listening with sound. I’m quite a big fan of Snyder, specially after his visually wow-ful big screen creation of The Watchmen; compromising none (or very little) on the graphic violence and multi-layered storyline… I think I actually preferred the ending in the rather, rather than Alan Moore’s graphic novel. And so here’s the first trailer [...]
David Fincher, a man who doesn’t get out of bed unless it’s something to do with tortured drug addicts chewing off their own tongue [Seven]… or grown men smashing eighteen shades of shit out of each other’s faces [Fight Club] has now turned his significantly macabre talents to… Facebook. Like… WTF? The film charts the inception (I actually saw Inception last night – it was amazing) of the world’s most powerful social networking platform in the halls of Harvard through [...]
I need someone to be angry at here. But who gets it? Is it the fat-cat TV execs, with their fancy cars, their sharp suits and their oh-so-frequent boneheaded gaffs in their programming renewal choices… or is it the millions of viewers, who, even when they’re gifted super-amazing tele-visual delights – decide not to watch, or to watch something else, or to go out and be sociable or something. DAMN THEM. I’m annoyed because I recently discovered something wonderful; a [...]