A review of the Coen brothers’ forthcoming film ‘A Serious Man‘

The first reviews are sounding really positive.

I can’t wait.

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An excerpt from Dave Eggers’ novelisation of ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘.

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It sounds really true to the book, which is both a good and a bad thing.

Still not sure if I really want to put my head back there.

At least you can put a book down, have a drink, and come back to it a couple of hours later.

This came out of nowhere; a 15 minute preview of the ‘the future’ at select cinemas round the country, more info here.

I’m out of town for this unfortunately, and it’s probably a bit uber-geeky anyway…but, yeah the hype is starting to get to me  a little.

(just look at those dropships!!)

Roger Ebert defends his review of Transformers 2;

So let’s focus on those who seriously believe “Transformers” is one of the year’s best films. Are these people wrong? Yes. They are wrong.

For slightly different reasons my review of the original Transformers movie provoked the fiercest reactions of almost anything we ever posted.

Nothing like robot fans for fighting their corner.

It’s not like us to get way overexcited about a film, spoon-feed ourselves outrageous hype, only to madly dissappointed when the final release doesn’t meet our ridiculous expectations.

Having said that, the tidbits coming out about Avatar make it sound like December 19, 2009 could be the first day of the rest of my life.

“I couldn’t tell what was real and what was animated–even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn’t possibly be real,” Quittner said about the footage from Avatar that he saw. “The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.”

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Sorry for the quietness round these parts in recent days/weeks.

Real life has been real busy and there is another project taking up most of my time at the moment.

All will be revealed shortly.

In the meantime we saw Watchmen (on IMAX!!) at the weekend. I think it worked pretty well considering the context. It’s obviously made by someone who loves the comic book (perhaps too much to make it into a great film). The more you think about what is missing, the more more you wish he’d had the budget to make it as a 12 episode HBO series-and really done it justice.

That said, I can’t wait to see the extended cut and the ‘Tales of the Black Freighter‘ looks amazing and if you’re in the mood for more Moore, there’s a great interview with the charmingly obtuse scribe/magician/beard from yesterday’s Guardian that’s really worth reading.

Speak soon.