Entries Tagged as ‘Movies’
May 10, 2009
Objectified
Objectified is the new documentary from Gary Hustwit, the man behind last year’s font-tastic (so so sorry), Helvetica. This movie explores industrial design as a world that most of us never stop and consider, yet one that surrounds and continuously influences us. As Hustwit describes it:
Objectified is a documentary about industrial [...]
January 26, 2009
Charlie Rose + A.O. Scott + David Denby
Confession. I haven’t seen four of the five best picture nominees. So sue me. This accounts for our serious lack of movie coverage on the blog. But for those of us who are shallow and who merely want to sound like we’ve seen each of these movies, the video below provides some serious discussion about [...]
January 17, 2009
Where The Wild Things Are + Girl Skateboards
Spike Jonze has gone and given his skate company — not Ain’t It Cool or any of those other fanboy losers — the first look at the beasts from his highly, highly, highly anticipated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are.”
Girl Skateboards will be releasing the decks in a limited-edition run along with [...]
December 31, 2008
The 8 Best Things of 2008
2008 was a pretty awful year all around. Economic distress, blah blah blah. However, there were a few things worth cheering and we thought we’d recount them here in our inaugural list of the best things of 2008. You’ll note that there’s not a lot connecting the items on this list other than the fact [...]
September 20, 2008
Synecdoche New York Trailer
Yet another mind fudge from the mad Charlie Kaufman. The screenwriter behind “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” now steps behind the camera for his directorial debut with “Synecdoche, New York.” The film looks every bit as dizzying and ambitious as the play Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character attempts to mount. [...]
September 17, 2008
Voy a Explotar Trailer
If Rushmore met Badlands and those two movies happened to fuck. This would be the offspring.
September 8, 2008
The Wrestler + Mickey Rourke
Okay, I’m officially putting this on the top of my must-see list for the fall, or at the very least, the top of my movies-I-didn’t-get-around-to-seeing-but-I’m-going-to-read-about-a-lot-and-pretend-I-saw list. The blogosphere is officially buzzing about “The Wrestler” which just got picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and [...]
