Rumour has it that a Futurama movies, or possibly Futurama movies (plural!) may be coming, most likely in a direct-to-DVD style release similar to the Family Guy movie brought out last year. Billy West and the rest of the cast as said to be recording new material for some kind of return of the show.
The new film starring Natalie Portman “V for Vendetta” will be released at iMax simultaneously with it’s general release at cinemas this spring.
Producer Joel Silver said “we’re excited to give fans the opportunity to experience ‘V For Vendetta’ in IMAX’s spectacular format.”
I had heard great things about this movie so I expected great things to be delivered. Unfortunatly, that wasn’t the case. The movie is funny but it’s similar to Daria in that it’s funny because it’s so glum. It really makes no sense until you see it.
Ok it was a good movie and it was pretty funny. But people were comparing it to Anchorman and saying it was better which I would strongly disagree with. If you liked Anchorman, Jim Carrey and Daria though it’s probably worth you checking out.
Film critic Roger Ebert has unveiled his ten worst movies of 2005…
1. “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo”
2. “Dukes of Hazzard”
3. “Dirty Love”
4. “D.E.B.S.”
5. “Son of the Mask”
6. “Doom”
7. “Constantine”
8. “Undead”
9. “Elektra”
10. “Fantastic Four”
The obvious reason to see this movie is that it was directed by Sam Mendes who also directed American Beauty and there is a fantastic film if there ever was one. I didn’t actually realise is was when I headed off to see it though. Interesting trivia fact huh? Here’s another, we couldn’t get seats together so we just sat in the aisle ;). But enough about my sad life at the movies, I have a review to do here.
If for some reason you don’t think the fact that Sam Mendes directing the film is enough to warrent a viewing then how about Donnie Darko himself, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in the film. And he’s good. Really good. The whole Jarhead thing breaks with his Donnie Darko look but by the end of the film you can see the Donnie look re-emerging.
The film manages what very few Hollywood films can achieve, American Beauty being one of the major acceptions, in avoiding any real kind of categorisation. It’s a war film but the lead character never actually kills anyone. Indeed, once they get shipped out to the middle east he never even fires his rifle until the very end. And to boot there are plenty of commedy momments thrown in but while these are funny they don’t detract from the seriousness of the movie.
It’s clearly a war film in theory - after all, it’s about the Gulf war. But when you get past that shell it is more of a drama. Yet not a drama about becoming a marine and going off to fight (well it’s sort of about that). So genre categorisation is hard to apply in this situation. Which is always a sign of a job well done by the filmmakers.
A lot of the critics reviewing this movie did some lengthy talking about the messages behind this film. To be honest, I think they are over-analysising it a bit. I don’t think it has some kind of big political message behind it, rather it’s about the characters than the plotline. The plotline itself is a little generic, a marine who turns out to be a hot-shot shipped out to the frontline. But it’s not about that, that’s just a backdrop.
It’s not going to go down in history as a great war film but any film narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Sam Mendes gets my vote. It’s way more of a guy movie than for girls I think but most adults should enjoy it.
A choice between watching the 51st State and The X-Files movie was never going to be an easy one but I think I made the right choice. I’d seen some of it before but mainly just the start and never really knew what was going on and with my new appetite for the show it was an interesting watch.
The movie takes place after the end of series 5 where the X-Files have been burned and closed but also acts like a setup for series 6. It’s basically like an extended episode rather than a movie but doesn’t get boring like some of them do (*cough* Rugrats movie).
The plot is pretty explicit about the whole alien conspiracy, it really drags it out into the open.
Good film, perhaps not for non-fans of the show but for anyone who likes the X-Files it’s definitely worth checking out.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent out the voting ballot dealies to it’s membership base of over 5,000 as of last Thursday. They have until January 21st to cast their votes and return their forms.
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