MEAN and MASSIVE

I love the group that’s around Jim Jarmusch, or maybe it’s around Tom waits, or maybe this group has no definite center, but it exists, and those guys do things, and those things are cool, and nonchalant, and smart. John Lurie’s series Fishing with John is one of those rare produced pieces that has it [...]

Makoto Shinkai, the anime writer and director (A Placed Promised in Our Early Days), has revealed some images and details about his next animation movie. The protagonist is a girl on a journey, and the movie (like his other films) deals with the theme of loss. The guys that work on the animation are more [...]

The second trailer of Love and Other Drugs is so much better than the first one. It gives us the real drama and the conflicts that are at the basis of the Love and other drugs movie. At the end of the trailer the editor pushed again to the “happy sides” of the movie, not [...]

We’ve seen this couple (Jake Gyllenhall, Anne Hathaway) in better movies (Brockback Mountain, that was maybe not such a good movie, but had for sure more depth than Love and Other Drugs). here they play the same old boy-doesn’t-want-to-fall-in-love-until-girl-plays-it-hard-to-get game. Not too interesting, jokes are not funny, sometimes even insulting, females must takes their specious [...]

CREAM/EGG (Short Film) from Ian Gamester on Vimeo. Cream/egg is exactly why I love Vimeo so much. HD, quality short films, great browsing options. This short film was a bit hard for me to follow, because of the accent (British of some sort), but the fact it’s a comedy made it much easier, and indeed [...]

The Other Guys is something to wait for. It’s not yet in the cinema near me, not even in a cinema that’s slightly far away, so in the mean time I’ve done some online research. You know, for some leaking goodies, screeners or whatever. Haven’t found anything too interesting yet, but the trailer looks good, [...]

I had two big concerns while I was on my way to the cinema. First, do I really want to watch Steve Carell now? And second – do I really want to watch another pathetic Hollywood remake of a brilliant French film? But, there’s always the chance that Steve Carell will be more funny and [...]

There is a kind of excitement that goes through the body when the lights go down and you know you’re going to spend 100 minutes more or less with Angelina Jolie. You don’t expect much from the plot or the cinematic experience, and that’s good, but you know you’ll follow that story and feel satisfied, [...]

If there’s only one reason to keep watching tv it’s gotta be BBC2. If there’s a reason to move to the UK it’s BBC2. They’ve done it again, another brilliant TV series that keeps me both happy and troubled. Tom Hollander gave an interview to the Guardian this week, talking about his role in the [...]