I’m no trekkie, but this looks like it could be huge.

All power to JJ for having the skills to pull off what has the potential to be ‘franchise reboot’ of the year.

*proper version here*

The recently revived solace in cinema has the skinny on an early review of The Road.

Knowing the book, I can’t  imagine a situation where I’d want to put myself through the agony of spending two hours going through it all again.

It sounds like one of those films you have to be in a really specific mood to go see, but is an ultimately rewarding experience if you manage it.

Ridley Scott is making a new Sci-fi Movie, based on Joe Haldeman’s Forever War.

“It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The Odyssey’ by way of ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.”

It’s been a while since we’ve had a heavy hitting 70’s style epic.

Could be interesting.

more here

Still on the fence, but warming up slightly after reading this.

If the thought of Johnny Depp and Christain Bale in a Michael Mann directed 30’s era gangster pic doesn’t get you even a little excited, you might well be reading the wrong blog. For everyone else here is an interview with producer Kevin Misher to whet your appetite.

A depression-era crime caper could be just the tonic to our present day economic difficulties, however they work themselves out by July next year.

If they don’t make them like that any more, it is because Paul Newman was an exemplar of that most unfashionable of things: manliness. He was masculine in an old-fashioned, untutored, un-ironic way, whether playing good guys or outlaws. And it is with manly reticence and calm that he has now taken his leave.

 From Peter Bradshaw in the GU.

I still remember the initial excitement I felt first reading about the Red-One last year. Seems that original promise has, if anything, been exceeded by the product itself.(how often does that happen?)

There’s a fascinating background piece about the company and it’s founder over at Wired, articulating just how disruptive the introduction of a cheap, high spec digital camera could be on the staid world of traditional film making. But, as John Gruber points out, I think it’s the consumer level “Scarlet” which has me excited.

Reminds me of the revolution in music-making that occurred with the introduction of pro-quality/consumer priced hardware and software.

Anyone want to be part of the cinematic equivalent to House music?

A game-changer in the making.

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A super-positive first review for the new coen brother’s movie.

Man I’m looking forward to this.

(previously)

Stanley Fish on Kim Novak’s enduring, and often misunderstood, appeal;

MacMurray plays a cop assigned to ingratiate himself with her in the hope that she will lead him to her gangster boyfriend. But, as TCM host Robert Osborne observed, one look at Novak and he’s lost. When he’s not watching her, the camera is, for the plot consists largely of a surveillance operation; a team of detectives spends endless hours looking at Novak through binoculars, as do we. It is voyeurism from a distance, and emphasizes her status as a glittering something beheld from afar.

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It’s starts out pretty rubbish, but the quality gets better about 40 seconds in. Till the real trailer arrives, this will have to do.

Don’t screw this up guys (or manny will never forgive you)