Category: Film
Children Of Men
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men was one of the best films I’ve seen this year…great acting, a poignant and hopeful story, a haunting score and a pair of breathtaking set pieces, shot in a single take. Unlike movies such as Minority Report and Blade Runner, the world inhabited by Cuarón’s characters is realised with much…
On the Edge of Blade Runner
Blade Runner is twenty-five years old…Joanna Cassidy’s just finished reshooting a bunch of her scenes…is Ridley Scott planning a new cut of the movie…are we again On the Edge of Blade Runner? Can’t Wait 🙂 UPDATE: I read sometime ago that screenwriter David Peoples, wrote a ‘sidequel’ set in the same world as BladeRunner, starring…
Sunshine
Danny Boyle doin’ SF? Neat! I’ve been looking forward to seeing Sunshine (as most Brits do…!) since catching the trailer at a showing of Hot Fuzz. — The story – a mission to re-ignite a dying Sun with a ‘stellar bomb’ – draws many of its central themes, of spirituality, nature and exploration, from science-fiction…
Celica Royale
Of course, double-oh-seven cannon rolls his DBS seven times and lands straight in the Guinness Book Of Records. I did that and a 360, in one take with my Celica last November. Bond is a pussy.
Ikea Bullet Time
<yawn>Yes, that Bullet-Time</yawn>, the much overused Matrix-style photographic effect…however, this time quite tastefully applied to an online Ikea campaign. I wonder if it was inspired by the floating prices and product names of Fight Club’s satirical ‘Ikean’ apartment sequence. You can see the Ikea clip here… (Flash required).
Sith Happens
What the Star Wars movies lack in character development, plot and dialogue they certainly make up for in Design – in every category from typography, sound design, fashion and product design to architecture, character design, UIs and ship/vehicle designs. Like the other prequels, George Lucas’ Revenge Of The Sith is steeped in the designs of…