Posts Tagged “movies”
Man of Steel teaser trailers
by Matt Wharton on July 22, 2012
Not one but two teaser trailers for Man of Steel have been released, essentially the same trailer with different voice-overs. From the look of the trailers the movie feels more like Terence Malick’s Man of Steel than a Zack Snyder film. Nice use of The Bridge Of Khazad Dum from the score to The Fellowship of the Ring and I love the visual of him breaking through the sound barrier.
Russell Crowe as Jor-El
Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
by Matt Wharton on July 12, 2012
Amy and I decided that we should try to make a real effort to watch more films because it is something that we both love to do that we somehow fell out of the habit of doing. To think back in the days of working at the cinema I was watching around 100 films a year.
We started with a quirky comedy that my brother recommended to me called Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
Review: Chronicle
by Matt Wharton on June 12, 2012
Review: Prometheus
by Matt Wharton on June 5, 2012
Review: Ides of March
by Matt Wharton on April 3, 2012
Review: Man on a Ledge
by Matt Wharton on February 5, 2012
Review: The Grey
by Matt Wharton on January 31, 2012
Movie Reviews: 1985, 1986 and 1987
by Matt Wharton on January 28, 2012
Indulged in a bit of 80s nostalgia today when I happened to catch each of these movies on TV on different channels. Strange coincidence they were screened in the same order as they came out in cinemas.
Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
by Matt Wharton on January 25, 2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 
This reboot of The Planet of the Apes proved to be an interesting and intelligent movie about the ethics of animal research as well as an exciting SF thriller.
I think the work done to bring the apes to the screen both the CGI and the underlying performances of the actors was fantastic, very believable as apes and excellent in the way that the increased intelligence was implied.
Warner Brothers acquire the rights to Otherland
by Matt Wharton on January 21, 2012
The rights to the Otherland tetralogy by Tad Williams have been acquired by Warner Brothers. The fact that they have purchased the rights however doesn’t mean that we will see them actually adapt the books into movies and in any case I think that a television series would be a better format.
It is a science fiction story told on an epic scale as each of the four books is several hundred pages long and they follow on directly from one another. Set towards the end of this century the eponymous Otherland is a virtual world made of many different realms many of which are based upon works such as Through the Looking-Glass, The Odyssey and The Iliad, The War of the Worlds, and The Wizard of Oz.
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