Posted in Fantasy, Movies, tagged flowcharts, Lord of the Rings, maps, XKCD.com on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Strange Maps, a rendering of the Lord of the Rings as a flowchart of the progress of the main characters. It’s too big to show here, so a sample will have to do:
Visit XKCD.com for the full diagram. They also have flow charts for Star Wars (original trilogy, of course) and Jurassic Park.
Posted in Movies, anime, science fiction, tagged anime, Blue Seed, Blue Seed Beyond, reviews, Yuzo Takada on August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(The following is a review I posted at Netflix for Blue Seed: Beyond, the sequel to the wonderful anime Blue Seed.)
The original Blue Seed is my favorite anime; it has everything I like about the form, Blue Seed Beyond, however, doesn’t live up to its predecessor. These three episodes feel more like a coda or [...]
Posted in Movies, tagged gangster movies, Jimmy Cagney, White Heat on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a link to a great post by Big Hollywood’s John Nolte on Jimmy Cagney and what’s arguably his best movie, White Heat:
“White Heat” remains as powerful and entertaining sixty-years on because the goals its creators are grounded in the modest, timeless idea of gathering together the most gifted of artists to tell the best [...]
Posted in Movies, tagged Bad Ideas, Britney Spears, cinema, Holocaust, Shoah, time-travel on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…But may:
Britney Spears to star in Holocaust time-travel movie?
What’s next? Pee-Wee Herman as Abraham Lincoln?
Posted in Movies, science fiction, tagged alien invasion, atomic horror, Movies, robots, science fiction, Target Earth on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m a life-long fan of Fifties science-fiction films, so I was surprised when Netflix suggested Target Earth: I had never seen or even heard of it. So, I put it in my queue, didn’t really expect much, and found myself very pleasantly surprised.
Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way, first: the alien robot [...]
Posted in Movies, tagged Movies on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Mental Floss, the five coolest ad-lib moments in cinema history. A couple of these I knew of, but the others are new to me.
Technorati tags: improvisation, cinema, ad-libs
Posted in Movies, tagged anime, cowboy bebop, keanu reeves, remakes on January 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Keanu Reeves is set to star in a live-action remake of anime classic Cowboy Bebop.
Is nothing sacred?
Technorati tags: Cowboy Bebop, Keanu Reeves, anime, remakes, obscenity
Posted in Books, Holidays, Miscellany, Movies, Television, science fiction, tagged Books, Christmas, dvds, History, Jackson, Lincoln, Stargate SG-1, World War II on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have to give in to my Inner Little Kid for a moment and share what I got for Christmas. This is some neat stuff:
Books
Doris Kearns-Goodwin’s A Team of Rivals. Abe Lincoln is a deeply-felt hero to me, so I’m looking forward to reading this.
Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle. Part two of his Liberation [...]
Posted in Movies, science fiction on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still is rightly considered a beloved classic, both of the science-fiction genre and of cinema in general. So, when I heard it was being remade, my first reaction was “In the name of God, why??” When I then read that Keanu Reeves was playing the role of [...]
Posted in Movies on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this item in Variety today:
In what will be his first job since the blockbuster “Iron Man,” Robert Downey Jr. is set to star in “Sherlock Holmes,” the drama that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros.
Eh, I’m not so sure about that. I thought Downey was perfect in the role of Tony Stark [...]
