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NASA’s prototype hypersonic scramjet is set for a flight test this weekend. The 12-foot scale mockup of the X-43A aircraft is expected to reach Mach 7 (approx. 5,000 mph) at an altitude of 100,000 feet. A scramjet, having few to no moving parts (unlike a conventional jet engine), is propelled by the combustion of the [...]
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Now that we’re done with two of the three most hyped trilogies of the new millenium, and the market for comic book films has been exhausted (save Spider-Man and X-men sequels), it’s time to think about what Hollywood will come up with to top The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. They’ll have [...]
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Is film a form of entertainment that shows us the world as if justice prevailed and all suffering had purpose? Or is it a spoonful of sugar to help the bitter red pill of reality go down? Your answer will determine how much satisfaction you get from the conclusion of the Matrix story, so be [...]
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Hollywood is finally rounding out that unfinished corner of the physiognomist’s elemental chart with a natural disaster film about a sudden ice age. We’ve been drowned in huge waves, twisted by the wind, pelted with asteroids, had lava spewed on us, and the earth’s core even stopped spinning, but not until The Day After Tomorrow [...]
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I just realized that my indictment of Japan’s Returner as a B-movie implies that Hollywood blockbusters (including some source materials for Returner) are the global standard for A-movies. Hollywood, as a movie-making money machine, is unmatched on this planet and it would be unfair to hold foreign features to the same production standards. Ideologically speaking [...]
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Takeshi Kitano (aka “Beat” Takeshi) is the Japanese cohost of Takeshi’s Castle (which lives in America as the hilariously dubbed MXC). He’s also a prolific director of philosophical yakuza flicks, unique in their emotional detachment to the extreme violence they depict. They often explore the stereotypical Japanese honor system of severed pinky fingers and seppuku, [...]
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The Triplets of Belleville is a new, animated French film about a kidnapped cyclist, and the adventure his grandmother has trying to find him. The trailer, like most trailers for foreign language films, shows only the most exuberantly kinetic and drama-laden non-dialogue scenes, surely tailored by a self-congratulatorily savvy team of marketers who fear a [...]
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This John Holmes biopic retells events many saw fictionalized in Boogie Nights. The poster is pretty rad. Check out Gothamist for details.
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The film version of this Dark Horse staple should hit theaters next summer and will star Ron Perlman.
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