Mirrormask will be released tomorrow ! The movie designed by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, in collaboration with the Jim Henson Company is credited to be both stunning, original and cheap (developped for only $4 millions with off-the-shelf software). From the early images and trailers, it does look stunning. This is THE movie any fan of Dave McKean’s visual work…
I watched Sin City last night and its ‘film noir’ atmosphere followed me for the rest of the week-end. For those who spent the last month under a stone, "Sin City" is a direct translation to screen of Frank Miller’s graphic novels. I am not saying ‘comics’ as well because the original work is far from the empty pages of…
I just watched What Dreams May Come (1998) … and boy did I need to watch this movie again. I had forgotten how intense and poetic the text and the imagery are in this movie. The text is of a rare quality in a movie of that scale, which makes it that much more enjoyable. It is the kind of…
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow will quickly take a place of choice in the Museum of Digital Special Effects, next to Jurassic Park, Twister and The Mask. I tried to stay away from reading anything about that movie to not spoil my first impression when I finally watched it. Of course the story is flat, the characters dull…
I liked watching “hellboy” . I liked it a lot. Maybe it is because of the incredible creative freedom provided by computer graphics special effects, or maybe it is because like Peter Jackson or Brian Singer, Gillermino DelToro cares about his subject – “hellboy” shows there is a hope for movie adaptations of comics or novels. Like with “X-Men” or…
The ‘journey’ is finally over. I spent an afternoon back into Middle Earth and came back with an immense feeling of relief and satisfaction… I can’t wait to go back… there and back again After the let down of the Matrix, it was comforting to see that such an epic project came out unspoiled. In spite of the missing scenes and changes to…
“Silly caucasian girl who likes to play with samurai swords…. “ It is rare these days why I get to spend some time in a movie theater. Even more rare when that time is spent keeping my jaw from hanging and telling to myself … Oh My God. Kill Bill – Vol 1. was one of those movies. A movie…