A short (4-minute) film from Marvel, starring Agent Coulson. Jolly good!
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Star Wars… or at least, the one scene they managed to reproduce in between filming Paul.
A second trailer for the Ultramarines animated direct-to-DVD film.
Everything about it looks and sounds pretty terrible, but I’ve still preordered my collector’s edition (only available from the official website).
a short film (a minute or two at the most) about what a robotic policeman might look like. In Johannesburg. Outstanding production - it looks very good indeed.
Originally brought to my attention by gazeinwonder.
Films I have watched this week:
Sherlock Holmes - bloody excellent, a really fun action film with some delightful sensibilities. I was annoyed by the cliched smugger-than-you “strong female lead” who-needs-rescuing-by-the-male-hero-in-the-end-anyway, though. My favourite turn was Doctor Watson, who was the most human character ably played by Jude Law (better, I thought, than Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes, entertaining though that was).
Ninja Assassin - utter tripe, but I was quite drunk while watching it so I enjoyed it. In fact, the parts of the film where ninja assassin-ing is not taking place are the emptiest parts of the film by a London mile, and there was not nearly enough ninja assassin-ing in the film overall. Also obeys the Inverse Ninja Law unswervingly.
The Book of Eli - a pretty good film, rendered very watchable by Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington. Post-apocalyptic survivalism, nice (appropriate) scenery, and an engaging theme was, for me, marred a little by a slightly confused or at least confusing message. Is it religion, faith, or Christianity that the audience is supposed to consider as a result of this film? Doubtless I have completely missed the point.
Harry Brown
Just got back from seeing the film of the above name, which is a brutal little brit flick starring Michael Cain. Not wholly dissimilar from the earlier film Outlaw a few years ago, starring Sean Bean, with an overall similar message. I enjoyed both films quite a lot, and would recommend either.
Harry Brown: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289406/
Dan Abnett is often considered the best of the Games Workshop fiction writers; which is, sadly, not saying a great deal.
I have enjoyed everything of his that I’ve read, though, so it will be interesting to see how this goes.
And frankly, it’s about time we saw a proper feature film for Warhammer 40,000.
