New at Commentarium

New articles at Commentarium: La Hora Fría Lost Made Them Do It: Five Musical Lost Videos Green Zone Alice in Wonderland: Two Perspectives And coming up tonight: Survival of the Dead We’re not managing to update every day, but so far we’re both very pleased with the articles, and have …

Commentarium!

We are very pleased to announce that Commentarium.net, our new film & television website, is up and running. It’s going to be a great deal of fun – for more details about what kind of website we’re envisioning, you can read the first post, or you could skip straight ahead …

Grrrrraaaaaargh

You know, this “Avatar is racist/Avatar is Dances with Wolves, but with aliens” shit is getting on my nerves so badly that it’s distracting me from finishing Phenomenon 32. Can no-one actually have a closer look at something and think before they speak? Basic logic and observation will show that …

A Short Message About What You Should Do

Go see Avatar, for God’s sake. It’s excellent. It’s beautiful, thoughtful, complex, intelligent, touching, and a lot of other adjectives. It’s probably going to piss off a lot of stupid people, so ignore what they tell you and go see it.

Agora

Alejandro Amenábar + one of the most important and tragic stories in human history = this movie. I’ve always wanted to make a good movie about Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria. Looks like Amenábar got there first. If the movie is as good as the trailer, and I suspect …

Tell me what you love… (Part Three: Films)

This is almost impossible to do. I have seen a lot of films (there were times when I’d watch two new movies a day), and I have loved many of them. This is even worse than with books. Which is why I will cheat and make the list longer than …

Terry Gilliam, we love you!

I just saw the trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, one of my most-anticipated films ever, and it’s stunning. This film is going to be awesome, in the literal sense of the word. Want. See.

Is Capitalism A Sin?

This just went out over Michael Moore’s mailing list. If you consider yourself a Christian, read it: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning …a note from Michael Moore Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Friends, I’d like to have a word with those of you who call …

G.I. Joe

Saw G.I. Joe today. Ah, poor Stephen Sommers. The Mummy Returns was one of the best adventure films ever made, and now this… this… thing. So many fine actors doing their best to out-bad one another. So much money wasted created action sequences that are messy as something directed by …