I have gathered together a few favorite films to keep me distracted during recovery for the next few days, starting with 2009’s Fish Story. This excellent Japanese Sci-Fi tale covers multiple decades and generations, showing how a punk rock song saved the world through a series of circumstances that don’t at first glance appear to be related. Luc Besson’s Angel-A is also in the collection, a French film about an angel who has fallen to Earth to save the heart and soul of a petty criminal. And then there is Iron Sky, about the Nazi’s who fled to the Moon at the end of WWII and are now returning to invade the Earth, from the Finnish film making team that brought us Star Wreck. That last one even has an English sound track, so I won’t have to read the subtitles, hurrah! If you have missed seeing any of these amazing films you can watch them on many VOD or Streaming services, such as Netflix, and I recommend dong so soonest!
The new Lone Ranger trailer is out, and I gotta say I am now expecting two thirds of the film to take place on trains. They obviously have assembled a great team for this project, and everything I have seen so far is excellent. Now I just need to be patient enough to wait until it is actually released in July so I can attend the IMAX 3D version (at least I hope it is being released in that format).
JJ is the best thing to happen to the Trek franchise since Gene Roddenberry himself, the new cast is dead on perfect, and I didn’t really need another trailer to let me know I NEED to be in the theater for this one! On the other hand, it doesn’t hurt, and what a treat to get a few more glimpses before the curtain opens and the lights go down!
Actually, this is the Red Band trailer for the new film, This Is The End, so you probably don’t want to watch it at work. It should be hitting the big screen around June or so, and it bares a distinct resemblance to Hot Tub Time Machine, in attitude if not in execution. I suspect this one just might be a hoot.
OK, it is really more of a Man of Steel trailer, but General Zod is the only on in it. so it seemed like an appropriate title. It will be coming out on June 14th around North America, if you live elsewhere check the release dates listed on the site.
I don’t know if they switched release dates at the last minute or if I just wasn’t paying attention, but it turns out this is the week they release Oblivion, not last week as I had previously said. Whenever it hits the big screen, I intend to be there.