movies

[Radbird]

Watched "Source Code" over the weekend and enjoyed it.

[JL21]

Boom.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/e ... -rhunt.php

Deadline Matheson is reporting that Disney has signed Edgar Wright to direct an as-yet unwritten re-imagining of The Night Stalker with Johnny Depp as the embattled reporter Kolchak. Darren McGavin brought the intrepid journalist to life in the mid-seventies series as well as the two TV films that preceded it, and Depp’s peculiar peccadilloes make him a solid fit for the character.

[TimeForGuinness]

Boom.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/e ... -rhunt.php

Deadline Matheson is reporting that Disney has signed Edgar Wright to direct an as-yet unwritten re-imagining of The Night Stalker with Johnny Depp as the embattled reporter Kolchak. Darren McGavin brought the intrepid journalist to life in the mid-seventies series as well as the two TV films that preceded it, and Depp’s peculiar peccadilloes make him a solid fit for the character.

[G. Keenan]

Has anyone seen this documentary, Marwencol? I'm thinking about signing up for Netflix streaming just so I can watch it.

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[JL21]

I haven't seen Marwencol but I've heard that it's good.

So, Take Shelter is like Field of Dreams, but with schizophrenia instead of baseball.

[G. Keenan]

I haven't seen Marwencol but I've heard that it's good.

So, Take Shelter is like Field of Dreams, but with schizophrenia instead of baseball.

Haha, that's true. I still liked it a lot though. Michael Shannon's performance is excellent.

[Tambourine Man]

There's a small version of JL on Leno right now.

[JL21]

I haven't seen Marwencol but I've heard that it's good.

So, Take Shelter is like Field of Dreams, but with schizophrenia instead of baseball.

Haha, that's true. I still liked it a lot though. Michael Shannon's performance is excellent.

Definitely a very good movie, one of the few from 2011 I'd recommend. I'm kind of shocked Shannon wasn't nominated for Best Actor.

[Richie Allen]

Fans of Universal Horror films should enjoy this one. It stars Boris Karloff and was made right after he made the original Mummy. It's British, considered by some to be the first British horror film, and was the first film Karloff made in his birthplace of England. It doesn't rival the greatest Universal classics but it's better than many of the later efforts. And it also stars the wonderfully creepy Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankentein) and was Sir Ralph Richardson's first film. The film was thought to have been lost for decades before a copy was discovered some time in the late 60s. Janus Films did a restoration and is supposedly the version on the $7.99 MGM edition (Amazon) and it looks marvelous. I'll be watching this again soon before I completely make up my mind on it but I'm thinking it's a solid **** out of ***** horror film.

[cpebbles]

I finally saw Tintin, and it sucked. Pretty much from the moment that Haddock was introduced I wanted the movie to be over. He was as irritating as I found the policemen to be, and he didn't have the courtesy to leave the screen after two or three minutes like they did. That Scottish accent that every single actor on the planet uses is like nails on a chalkboard to me, and the movie's level of cartooniness really fluctuated after his introduction.