Movies

Mars Express is a smart and stylish addition to the sci-fi noir canon (www.theverge.com)

Mars Express is a futuristic detective story about the autonomy of synthetic beings — which is to say, it’s the latest in a long line of sci-fi influenced by Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner. But while its premise may be familiar, the movie makes up for it with style and energy. The debut feature from director Jérémie...

Name Me Lawand (2022) (www.imdb.com)

A documentary about a young deaf Kurdish boy and his family who move to the UK so he, and they, can learn to communicate. It quite delicately touches on so many themes from family, community, acceptance, self determination, pride, to ableism, displacement, hostile immigration policy, and other systemic barriers. I cried...

What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)

Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever...

Studio Ghibli To Be Awarded Honorary Palme D’Or At Cannes 2024 (www.empireonline.com)

Even as the beloved Japanese animation house theoretically winds down, Studio Ghibli is flying high. Hot off the heels of that Oscar win for The Boy And The Heron, the accolades just keep coming – the studio is being recognised at the Cannes Film Festival next month, set to receive an honorary Palme d’or at the 77th...

Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)

**Opponents say SOPA-like proposal would block plenty of legitimate websites.**Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin yesterday said his group plans a major push to impose a site-blocking law in the US. The MPA will "work with members of Congress" to require Internet service providers to block piracy websites, he said...

The dying art of 35mm cinema: How the Ambler Theater is keeping ‘one of the closest things we have to magic’ alive (whyy.org)

...In the upper bowels of the Ambler Theater, Jesse Crooks squats on the ground. Using a combination of muscle memory, meticulous attention to detail and on-the-fly dexterity, he carefully threads a strip of celluloid film through a projector....

The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece (www.theguardian.com)

The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives......"Produced between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation was the only film that Coppola made in that peerless decade (which he ended with Apocalypse Now) that he scripted alone, without...

Poor Things: Bella's Discovery of the World - Review (www.lascimmiapensa.com)

A breath of fresh air in terms of cinematic innovation, aesthetics, and content. Yorgos Lanthimos directs and co-writes this film with Tony McNamara, providing numerous moments of entertainment while also provoking thought. The film liberates itself entirely from societal constraints, aiming to rediscover the primal sense of...

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