TO’ONA’I – Broadcast
Yep. The Rialto Channel have kindly agreed to show To’ona’i. I’m chuffed. Happy new year.
Category Archives: Film
2011 in Print
Comics A nice mix of mainstream, European and indy this year. Asterios Polyp – David Mazzuchelli Britten & Brulightly – Hannah Berry Chance in Hell – Gilbert Hernandez Doing Time – Hanawa Kazuichi Fun Home – Alison Bechdel Hellcity: The Whole Damned Thing – Macon Blair and Joe Flood [...]
2011 on Screen
These are straight from the viewing diary. Those that I remember with a smile get some link-love. Features 13 Assassins Animal Kingdom Another Year Born into Brothels Buck Chugyeogja Contagion Frozen River Get Low Leaves of Grass Please Give El secreto de sus [...]
IMF
The latest Mission: Impossible instalment is around the corner and I’m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I’m a fan of either the franchise or Tom Cruise hisself – it’s for the directors who’ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn’t count because Nobody knew)*: – M:I-2 by a post-Killer, pre-Paycheck John [...]
True That
There’s more where that came from.
Dream It
“I asked [Ayrton Senna] about dreaming,” Cronenberg said. The Brazilian replied that he “dreamed the racetrack. It’s almost like I am practising the racetrack in my dreams.” Asked the same question, [Keke] Rosberg replied abruptly: “No. Why would I dream about the racetrack? I spend too much time of my waking life on the racetracks.” [...]
Parenting with Dave #425
Last year, The Boy and I went to see the restored cut of Sergio Leone‘s Once Upon a Time in the West. He’s a child of the generation of Playstation, Wii and iPods so I half-expected him to be bored out of his skull. Aside from a couple of fidgety moments, he was in its [...]
Self-Flagellation
What is it with long flights and the bad terrible tragically awful films that I choose to watch? It’s not the carriers’ fault. Nowadays, all international carriers have screens on the back of the seats with hundreds of channels of choice at each traveller’s fingertips. So why’d I watch an eight-figure budgeted action comedy when [...]
Choose
Whenever I think of narratives that escalate as exquisitely as Aliens, I think, I should blog about that – y’know, how character decision A leads to situation B which requires character decision C but whenever I sit down to write it, I keep flashing on this, from Pulp Fiction: INT. PAWNSHOP -- DAY Butch sneaks [...]
How We Got Here
The latest abridged script‘s opening made me laugh out loud: EXT. LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES is getting ASS-FUCKED by ALIENS. VARIOUS MARINES IN HELICOPTERS (shouting) OO-RAH! LET’S GO GET THOSE ALIENS! AUDIENCE Yay, they’re getting directly into the action! Maybe this will do that good-movie thing of jumping right in and cleverly filling us in [...]
