Category Archives: Films

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What a great find. Fine British film that seems pretty unknown but should be considered a classic and studied. It feels like a sci-fi/disaster version of The Wire.

I’ll let a few words from a biographer and director Val Guest himself describe this the best way it could be:

“At a time when the vast majority of science fiction films were populated by aliens, blobs and bug-eyed monsters, Val Guest brought his trademarks of intelligence, seriousness and realism to the genre…Perhaps inspired by his background as a journalist, Guest chose to shoot his fantasy films in a gritty documentary style…’That’s the only way to make the unbelievable believable…You have to do these science fiction things like you would any other drama…I tried to present them like strange but very real events at which a camera just happened to be present.'”

Amen.

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Saw M. Night Shamalong-a-ding-dong’s “The Happening” yesterday. Good times. Very funny, several laugh-out-loud moments. During and after watching it I was convinced that the movie was ultimately a joke because of they myriad instances of bad directing, bad acting and bad dialogue that were so hilarious. Unfortunately I think that some of those may have actually been unintended. I don’t care though because this was a very funny movie and if you liked Slither or Cabin Fever you’ll like this. Damn funny stuff.

I still think that M. Night is going to come out at some point and admit that the whole thing was a joke and he can’t believe so many people took it so seriously. We’ll see.

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Science Fiction

This sci-fi flick, Sunshine, looks like it could have some nice eye-sugar:
Sunshine

Western

The latest from the Cohen brothers:
No Country for Old Men

Science Nonfiction

In the Shadow of the Moon