27 posts tagged “movies”
I'm not sure what Beau saw, but there are some totally awesome-looking movies coming out this year. For one, there are finally movies opening this upcoming weekend at the Cameras to see!
- Iron Man (well, it opened this past weekend, but I don't see movies opening weekend, and I haven't heard an ill word spoken for it so I might as well see it)
- Redbelt (already mentioned)
- Son of Rambow (looks cute but I might miss it)
- Speed Racer!!
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Blindness
- The Happening (looks better than its title sounds)
- Henry Poole is Here
- War, Inc. (looks like Idiocracy × Southland Tales × Why We Fight—could be a complete failure, but I am optimistic)
- Pineapple Express (see the R-rated trailer on the official site)
- The Fall (which looks like it's going to actually come to theaters!)
- Get Smart
- The Tracey Fragments (could be good)
- The Dark Knight!!
protocat: I saw Southland Tales recently!
protocat: I think I told you. :o
markpasc: woohoo!
markpasc: i'm not sure you told me you saw it. i know you wanted to see it.
protocat: Southland Tales was the best remake of Repo Man that John Waters and David Lynch could have done.
protocat: Plus the Strange Days cast.
protocat: It was a good reunion!
markpasc: omg do you know what i just saw this past week from Netflix? REPO MAN
protocat: ahahhaa I love Repo Man. That's one of my favorite films ever.
markpasc: and i was totally going to write about how it reminded me of Southland Tales
markpasc: in pretty much the same exact way you just said
- He Was a Quiet Man
- Uwe Boll's Postal
- Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
- Surfwise
- David Mamet's Redbelt! Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor! In a leading role!
- Planet B-Boy (I liked the teaser they had with just dancing a little better, so I don't know how I'll like the movie)
- Leatherheads
- Paranoid Park
- Children of Men
- Serenity (twice, during and after watching all the rest of Firefly with mom)
- The Fountain
- So Goes the Nation
- CSA: Confederate States of America
- Bubble
- The Good German
- Fido
- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (directed and co-shot by Sarah Lamm, who was on The Sound of Young America about it)
- Ocean's Thirteen
- Balls of Fury
- The Simpsons Movie
Southland Tales is the best Philip K. Dick movie this year, made only more accurate an adaptation by not actually being from any Philip K. Dick novel. It's more a pastiche of his work, and a film that revels in the same themes (and features two outright references). It's also just as messy and stoner-wise, and just as pulp as PKD's work, with the same taste in names, and a few bits of laughably bad dialogue that they pound through, thematically. One should probably expect all this of writer-director Richard Kelly, who previously wrote-directed Donnie Darko.
It's beautifully flawed, and you should probably go see it if you care, since it'll be completely gone from theaters in a couple of weeks. See also Victoria Large's review at notcoming.
If Mitchell and The King of Kong is the extreme extrovert of arcade game documentaries, Chasing Ghosts is the shy introvert that makes you feel nostalgic for a time and a place you may not have been a part of in the first place, but which feels comfortingly familiar even as you see it for the first time.
The old school Doctor Who is more in there because I watched it than because I picked it. May not be the most representative story if you want to see old Doctor Who.
P.S. OMG King of Kong is opening this weekend at the Camera 12! I'll have to finally go to the 12 to see something I guess.
