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Richard Wagner (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What better way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest composers of all time than with a silent film? Released in 1913 in order to coincide with his 100th birthday, this film, directed by Carl Frohlich, is considered one of the read more

Yep, it’s another new trailer for The Wolverine (or just Wolverine, or however they’re titling it now), and it certaimly brings the goods. Of course there’s footage here that you will have already seen, but there’s lots of new stuff here, too. Jean Grey,a real shot of the Sil read more

David Lynch is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting directors in Hollywood. Duran Duran is one of the great party bands from the 80s. Putting them together, getting Lynch to direct a film of their 2011 concert should at the very least lead to something entertaining, right? Well, actually, n read more

Yeah, I spend a lot of time watching and writing about smaller, indie or classic films, but there comes a time when you just have to buy some popcorn, check your brain at the door, and watch big frikkin’ robots fight big frikkin’ monsters. And since we’re still officially a year aw read more

Haven’t I seen that title somewhere else? No, it must be some other movie I’m thinking of. One is a movie that takes place on a devastated post-apocalyse Earth where a spaceship crash-lands and the few survivors have to fight their way past creatures evolved to hunt humans. The other fea read more

This one is mainly for my Nashville readers. The Belcourt Theatre has just announced the line-up for this summer’s Second Saturday Outdoor Cinema offerings. These free films will all be shown on the theater’s outdoor wall and will all begin at sunset. Oh, and of course, they will all be read more

This one is mainly for my Nashville readers. The Belcourt Theatre has just announced the line-up for this summer’s Second Saturday Outdoor Cinema offerings. These free films will all be shown on the theater’s outdoor wall and will all begin at sunset. Oh, and of course, they will all be read more

Constantin Film AG, a German film production and distribution company best known in the US for their involvement in the Resident Evil movies, has just released this trailer for its upcoming 3D animated version of Tarzan. it appears to be scheduled for an October release in Germany, But I’ve no read more

Constantin Film AG, a German film production and distribution company best known in the US for their involvement in the Resident Evil movies, has just released this trailer for its upcoming 3D animated version of Tarzan. it appears to be scheduled for an October release in Germany, But I’ve no read more

Fair warning: the trailer below is for a movie that isn’t supposed to be released until December. I’m noting this up front, because if you’re anything like me, it’s going to leave you wanting to see more, which is, of course, just what a trailer is supposed to do. Inside Llew read more

Steven Soderbergh attending the premiere of his new movie The Informant! (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m sure that by now most film/movie buffs have seen this video or read the transcript, but in case you haven’t, here is Steven Soderbergh’s recent speech given at the San Francisco I read more

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious today is one of those “closing the tabs” days where I share some of the stuff I’ve had backlogged for awhile. One of those is this very interesting video from Film School Through Commentaries which focuses on David Mamet talking about cinematic langu read more

So finally we have the first trailer for The World’s End, which is scheduled for release in August of this year. I really think all I need to say is that this is Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright’s  follow-up to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and the last film of the so-called &# read more

Steven Soderbergh attending the premiere of his new movie The Informant! (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m sure that by now most film/movie buffs have seen this video or read the transcript, but in case you haven’t, here is Steven Soderbergh’s recent speech given at the San Francisco I read more

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious today is one of those “closing the tabs” days where I share some of the stuff I’ve had backlogged for awhile. One of those is this very interesting video from Film School Through Commentaries which focuses on David Mamet talking about cinematic langu read more

Mr. Harryhausen poses with some of his creation. Reports are just coming in that Mr. Ray Harryhausen has passed away at age 92. I’ll have more to say about Mr. Haaryhausen and his movies sometime in the next few days, but for now I’ll simply say that in my mind there have been few creato read more

Mr. Harryhausen poses with some of his creation. Reports are just coming in that Mr. Ray Harryhausen has passed away at age 92. I’ll have more to say about Mr. Haaryhausen and his movies sometime in the next few days, but for now I’ll simply say that in my mind there have been few creato read more

Who needs those old Vincent Price movies when classics like this are now available? A couple of days ago I posted a news item about the loss of some 1800 titles from Netflix’s streaming service. However as was noted at the time, there is a certain ebb and flow to the service and as a helpful r read more

Sigh. After spending a large part of the afternoon writing a proper musing on this topic, it seems that due to an ill-timed automatic logout by WordPress I’ve lost about half of it. However I did at least want to share this info with you. According to this article from the Varge, as of yesterd read more

A delightful image from the Movies,. Silently site It’s probably about time for me to do another link dump post where I just give ya a whole bunch of links to articles and sites that have caught my eye lately, but I think I’ll probably save that for the weekend. There are, however, a cou read more