2023 SAG Awards Recap: What Can We Expect for the Oscars?
With last night’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, we are just two weeks out from the 95th Academy Awards on March 12. Though only honoring individual and ensemble performances (in both film and television) they are perhaps the final and one of the biggest indicators of who will take home the awards for Best Actor, […]
Good News Everyone! Netflix To Premiere Anime PLUTO
The news seemed to blow up all over the net yesterday – “PLUTO” the multi-part manga that retooled Astro-Boy is coming to Netflix as an anime series and we got our first look at it – PLUTO lands in the more adult and serious category of manga along the lines of Ghost in the Shell, […]
Avatar: The Way of Water – Notes on the Sequel
James Cameron appears to be the luckiest man on earth. Maybe he found a monkey paw or a Djinn trapped in a lamp, or maybe he spent all his past lives amassing Titanic loads of Karma to be used all in one lifetime. Whatever it is, he seems to be making the best of it. […]
Amazon Renews The Peripheral for Season 2
Amazon renewed sci-fi fan favorite The Peripheral for a second season. Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and even Reddit reported on it so it must be true. The show is listed as “based on the William Gibson novel” where in truth the more appropriate label would be “inspired by the William Gibson novel”. The producer Vincenzo […]
Deadline Exclusive: Michael Giacchino To Re-Make ‘Them!’ At Warner Bros
The Deadline Exclusive: “Oscar-winning Up composer Michael Giacchino will make his big-screen directing debut with a reboot of the 1954 sci-fi man-eating monster movie “Them!” at Warner Brothers.” The headline should have read, “ALIENS “Them!” Remake at WB by Michael Giacchino!” If the reader missed the softball lob written above, “Them!” was already remade by James […]
Copenhagen Cowboy – Nicolas Winding Refn’s Latest Kaleidoscopic Netflix Series
Nicolas Winding Refn’s art is hot and vibrant, colorful, and meticulously paced. He uses actors in a very deliberate way. His films and series cannot be mistaken for anything but a Nicolas Winding Refn effort (hereafter he will be listed as NWR). Some of his projects work better than others. Occasionally as with Drive it […]
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Cartoonist Kayfabe [YouTube] Look at OTOMO: AKIRA Layouts & Keyframes
If you are a fan of art books and animation, this write-up is for you. Edgar Award Winning comicbook artist Ed Piskore of Cartoonist Kayfabe fame returned from Japan with an amazing oversized book covering the creation of the classic film AKIRA. The book: Animation AKIRA Storyboards (OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS) The video review of […]
Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well: The Short Film” Misses Oscar Shortlist
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences body announced the shortlist for ten categories for the upcoming 2023 Oscars with the films that made the cut. By the time the formal nominations come out on January 24, each category will be narrowed down to five nominees. Taylor Swift’s acclaimed project All Too Well: […]
It’s A Good Time For Sci-Fi Series
Never a fan of burying the lead, the shows discussed here are: The Peripheral (IMDB): a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own. The Expanse (IMDB): a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the solar system’s fragile state of détente. West […]
Poster Reveal: Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s next feature film is coming into focus, first with the on-set images exclusively from Total Film and now with the release of the striking and abstract first look at the IMAX pre-release poster – let’s take a good look – One thing is for sure – by the look of the color scheme, […]