Archive for January, 2011
Cronos
Fans of the modern vampire craze may find Cronos a little hard to swallow. There’s not an awful lot of bloodletting going on, and the action is almost not existent. Cronos you see isn’t some flight of fancy – well, it is in it’s own way – but rather an old school look at some eternal questions.
The film starts off with a voiced over introduction where we learn about an old alchemist who in 1535 invents a small device that gives him eternal life. Sadly – at least for the old alchemist – some 400 years later he’s killed by a collapsing building and the unfortunate piercing of this heart.
An old antiques dealer buys his estate seeing as there is no one left to inherit in, and accidentally finds the alchemist’s golden scarab like device that granted him the dream of (almost) eternal life and whilst fiddling with it accidentally activates it, causing the device to pierce his skin and thus giving him eternal life. Read the rest of this entry »
Heavy Rain Movie Gets Deadwood Writer
The big screen rights for the Playstation 3 game Heavy Rain were picked up back in 2006, way before the game was even close to being released. Since then the game has sold over a million copies worldwide and garnered its fair share of critical acclaim, a movie adaptation is apparently being fast-tracked. Variety reports that Warner Brothers has hired a writer to bang out a script for this gritty crime thriller, and for once that writer is actually someone with a little bit of artistic credibility. The man who will adapt the story is David Milch, creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue. The story takes place over a four day period with four different characters on the trail of a serial murderer known as the Origami Killer. The game’s title refers to the fact that he kills his victims by drowning them with rainwater. Among the protagonists is a grief-stricken father whose son is kidnapped by the killer, who must face a series of trials in order to rescue him. Will an intensly story driven game be enough to buck the trend of terrible game-to-movie adaptations? Who knows, but maybe Milch’s experience will be able to do something interesting with it.
Last Chance To See
In the 1980′s writer Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) teamed up with Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a groundbreaking expedition, travelling the world in search of the most endangered animals. Twenty years later comedian and Twitter fanatic Stephen Fry returns with Mark to see if the same species still exist. Their journey, following in Admas’ footsteps, uncover some of the weirdest, most remarkable and most endangered creatures on earth.
Mark is the essential member of the team, having made the original journey with the late Douglas Adams, and being a serious and knowledgeable environmentalist as well as a superb animal photographer. Stephen Fry on the other hand, other that being connected through being a friend of Adams’ is really only there for the pulling effect of star power, and rick to try and get more people to watch the series. Read the rest of this entry »
Soul Kitchen
Soul Kitchen is a quirky little German Drama/Comedy about Zino, a man who is passionate about food, but grounded in the reality of what his customers want. The one thing he’s not grounded in is the reality of what his girlfriend wants.
It’s a story that twists and turns, as does Zino’s luck.
When his girlfriend goes to China for a career move, she wants Zino to follow, but problems at his restaurant see him hanging back. Problems are generally easily solved, but seem to always create new ones, as does Zion’s love for his family, especially his jailbird brother.
Not a laugh out loud comedy, Soul Kitchen will warm your heart, makes you mad and chuckle along with the story as it weaves it’s merry way through Zino’s incomprehensible life. Read the rest of this entry »
2011 Academy Award Nominees
Best Picture
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone” Read the rest of this entry »
