I’ve been in somewhat of a Sci-Fi mood of late. It may have something to do with current events such as economical and epidemical disasters (or Credit Crunch / Swine Flu media hysteria) and wanting to escape them, or it may just be down to the fact that I very much enjoy Science Fiction. As to qualify the previous statement, I’ve recently re-watched the Star Wars prequels , and decided that I much prefer them to the original trilogy. This [...]

Finally, here be Monsters – or rather Wild Things. The trailer for Sir Spike of Jonze’s latest has now stumbled its way into the realm of the inter‘tweb… a full 9 years after the teaser for the film was attached to The Grinch. There seems to be a trend of late to release films amidst a backdrop of studio squabbles and backstabbery. Recently, there was talk of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen being shelved (after the fans waiting patiently for over a [...]

Well, me… for one. But after 20 years of development hell, production green-lights, production red-lights, attached directors, detached directors, big name actors, lesser known actors, script writes, script re-writes, script binnings… the cinematic version of the very amazing and ecstatically acclaimed Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons graphic novel finally hits theatres worldwide. But who, exactly, will be watching? Big-name directors such as Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass have all, in the past, decided (or had decided for them) [...]

Looks like the academy didn’t look too favourably on 13-oscar-nominated Benjamin Button’s de-aging-ness… Instead they favoured Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, it won Best Film, Best Director and six other little gold statues. Mickey Rourke didn’t get the Best Actor Oscar, despite winning Best Actor at most of the other awards shows, they gave it to the already Oscar-winning Sean Penn. Kate Winslet finally received an Oscar for which she started talking about shampoo, and to the surprise of no-one; Heath Ledger won a [...]