In light of the release of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland tomorrow, I’ve posted this 1903 rendition;the first in cinema history. How far we’ve come.
New portraits from when art imitates life featuring the RZA for their film thatsgonnabesuperdope. Hopefully this marks the return of classic Kung-Fu cinema.
If you are in Pariscall me and I’ll take you to the fashion department store Le Printemps on Boulevard Haussmann. Le Printemps is celebrating the release of the new Tim Burton’s movie with their Alice in Wonderland windows till March 14th. Free rein was given to a group of top international designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress as Chloé, Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen, Maison Martin Margiella… As a tribute to the legendary Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Ladurée (The best macarons bakery in Paris) and Printemps has installed a tearoom with long community tables to make your own tea party!
Synopsis: Feelings of déjà vu, suspicion, and dread punctuate this psychological thriller from SEVERANCE (an AWESOME movie) director Christopher Smith. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT’s Melissa George stars as Jess, a woman on a yacht with a group of friends. When a storm comes up, they are forced to leave the yacht and move to a cruise ship, but there appears to be no one on board. Soon enough, Jess’s worry is revealed to be founded when someone begins killing her friends. [WATCH TRAILER]
Most thrillers these days start out with lofty premise, and quickly fizzle out by the third act due to lack of idea and predictable plots devices. TRIANGLE, ingenuously does the opposite, give you a cliché premise (douche bags on a sail boat) that seems like the usual slasher film where unsuspecting yuppies will be murdered one by one by yielding psycho path ( I would have been content with that.) But instead of following standard operating procedure of blood and guts, this movie brainy, twisty thriller that keeps you wondering what the hell’s going on while still managing to keep you engrossed. Without giving too much away, this movie is GREAT! This is poossibly the best horror movie I seen all year.
Animation from a Studio, APARATO, by way of Uruguay that was produced at the tune of $300 bucks. A shinning example of money well spent. To put in perspective AVATAR cost about $500,000,000 to make, Slumdog Millionaire was budgeted at $15,000,000, and Pan’s Labyrinth cost about $14,500,000.
Wow! I was blown away how NOT good this movie is. It’s defies all belief, as it seemingly had everything going right for it, but ultimately ends up turning into a turd sandwich. Great Cast and brilliant director (Guy Richie), but sadly it never get its shit together. Its only redeeming factors is when Sherlock Holmes beats the shit out of people in a cool, stylized super slow-mo (similar to the fight scenes in SNATCH), which is pretty awesome, but for some reason they stop doing it after the 2nd fight scene, to he films detriment. The Plot is a shit. I couldn’t really follow the story, because it’s so convolutued and too cleverly stupid. Shut up already, and beat up more people in slow motion. I generally like Robert Downey Jr. but he plays Sherlock Holmes like an unlikeable James Bond. Instead of being charming and incorrigible, Sherlock Holmes is more or less a cunty asshole you want to choke out (think: Kanye West).
The story comes together in the end, but by then I found I didn’t care too much. The Sherlock Holmes B story , the love affair with the femme fatal is pretty cliché ,but give a need distraction from how shitty and weak the central story is. It’s a lot better than his chemistry between Watson and Holmes, which unconvincing and poor. The villain is also totally un-engaging, and his stupid scheme for a power grab and world domination is quite unbelievably cartoonish to the point of being just plain retarded. Guy Ritchie should stick to what he knows, and make Snatch 2.
THE GOOD: A few cool fight scenes were Robert Downey Jr. beats the shit out thugs in slow motions.
THE BAD: Everything else. This move is NOT good! They even shamelessly set the movie up for an un-warranted sequel. Why?
VERDICT: AVOID…just youtube the fight scenes. This movie is NOT worth renting.
Tony Jaa is back in the third installment of the Ong Bak Series to kick ass and take names, which is set to debut sometimes this spring in 2010. I wish they would bring back the character , Dirty Balls, from the original, but seems to be no such luck from the trailer.
TONY JAA’S ONG BAK 3 TEASER PROMISES MORE ELBOWS TO THE HEAD THAN ANY HEAD CAN STAND!
The original District B13, operated under a simple premise of dope fight scenes and stunts. District 13: Ultimatum follows the same tradition of bone breaking martial arts and death defying stunts which seemingly going to make for an awesome action movie. But for some unknown reason the movie just gives up on being an action movie, and start to be a cartoonish fight-the-power after school special where a multi-cultural gang of killer, thugs and rapist unite to save all of France from some evil French Haliburton with kung fu and back flips (for real, no exaggeration). For some bizarre reason none of the cops in the films are fast enough to pull their gun which makes for an abundant of implausible fight scenes one after another that would make Jackie Chan roll his eyes.
The Upside: Some decent action and stunts.
The Downside: The movie starts out good, but eventually goes “full retard. You never go full retard. Everybody knows that. Rent the original as the Ultimatum loses all the charm of the original, District D13.
This song is rumored to be a leak from the Tron Soundtrack. I kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting… for this track to pick up tempo(the beat finally drops 5 minutes into the song) on this 12-min track, all in all, this shit is pretty amazing!
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