D-War

I hope this is as awesome as the poster makes it look.

The Veidt Method

… designed to produce bright and cabable young men and women who will be fit to inherit the challenged, promising, and often difficult world that awaits in our future …

Where The Wild Things Are

Is It Can Be Decembertime Now?

They had me at zeppelins over Oxford.

Which Three Would You Pick?

Dream-team or nightmare?

First there was Tintin and Captain Haddock and then there was Thomson and Thompson. Now it’s Spielberg and Jackson.
The directors of ET and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are teaming up to bring the adventures of Tintin, Belgium’s famous globe-trotting reporter, to the big screen.
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Spielberg and Jackson are said to have selected three adventures from the comic book series, but it is not yet known which ones they are. Screenplays have also yet to be written.

Surely they have to do The Secret of the Unicorn and Destination Moon? And I’ve always had a soft spot for Tintin in Tibet. But which would you choose?

My kind of film

Nature reports on the Tribeca Film Festival. They liked Black Sheep. Well, sort of:

Scientific realism 0. Nothing in peer-reviewed literature yet about mutant vampire were-sheep.

Entertainment 10. Did I mention the mutant vampire were-sheep?

Also reviewed: Eye of the Dolphin, Vitus, and Nobel Son (“…the plot is clotted with malice, manipulation, brutal violence and themes of cannibalism and scatology”. But it does star Alan Rickman).

Colin Pillinger Must Have Known!

OK, why did nobody tell me that the Transformers trailer features Beagle 2?

Annals of wrongitude, pt 652

Fans of Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh will know there’s a movie of it coming; they may not know (spoiler, I guess, though you’ll know it fairly soon after the movie starts anyhow) that the screenplay eliminates a major character entirely. Screenwriter Rawson Marshal Thurber says:

I suppose the most glaring change is the removal, whole cloth, of Arthur Lecomte from the story. In the novel, there’s this sort of a four-pointed love rhombus — for lack of a better term — between Art, Arthur, Phlox and Cleveland. I felt strongly that in order for the film to function properly, it needed a more efficient and more cinematic engine — in short, a love triangle. So I eliminated Arthur from the narrative and folded in important elements of his character into Cleveland’s and moved from there. I think the result really gives the story the momentum needed in the medium.

Review of the screenplay here: “Fair enough, but is it really Mysteries of Pittsburgh any longer?“. There’s also a protest site, you know. Just sayin’.

Kevin Smith About Talk Superman

Funny!

What film could bring Martin Sheen and Kirsten Bell together at last?

Flatland: The Movie.