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OK everyone – you be the judge:
Below is a still extracted from the most recent Cloverfield trailer – the part where the Brooklyn Bridge gets destroyed.
There seems to be buzz on a particular website (I will not reveal my sources, sorry) about the potential identification of “robot-esque” features located in this photograph. They are a little hard to make out, but I am pretty convinced that this may be our robotic friend mentioned in the previous post.
If so, this may be the first of a new way of marketing major “superhero”/ monster movies – first you attract those who are seduced by the mystery of the unknown, then once the word is out you launch a whole marketing campaign geared toward kids and the fans of that particular character. Then all of the merchandising follows.
So is it true? Does Cloverfield = Voltron? We shall all find out in due time.

Of course there are rumors flying every which way on this movie but here’s a theory to chew on:
The Cloverfield “monster” is … Voltron !!!!!!!!!
Many of you may know that there is a live action Voltron movie in the works.
Could this be it?

I just got back from seeing BladeRunner: The Final Cut with my good friend Gabriel and it was absolutely amazing. This is one of those movies that I had only had the chance to see on lousy little screens. Seeing it in the theater is truly something else, and this version is so much smoother than the original (even than the directors cut); with beautiful, longer shots. The soundtrack and audio effects by Vangelis are outstanding and the overall ‘cleanup’ of the movie is pristine: you can’t notice at all where things were fixed or enhanced, maintaining the feel and flow of the original film.
Now I can imagine what it might have been like in the theater when the movie came out for the first time.

It’s currently playing in L.A. and New York only. Lucky us…

I just got back from watching David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and I have to say it is fantastic. Viggo Mortensen manages to get across, with a minimalism that borders in pantomime, waves of fear. I can’t remember either a movie were I giggled incessantly for minutes at a time, Easter Promises has some absurdly casual and funny snippets.

I had read a few reviews before heading over to the theater where some of the main critiques referred to the violence and I have to admit it gets explicit sometimes, but it is so localized that it almost seems necessary. Just go check it out.

This isn’t quite news anymore but ex KDlab studio frontman and star child director Joseph Kosinski is in his final talks with Disney to nail down the development and direction of the new TRON movie.

A few weeks before this was made public, he had already nailed the remake of Logan’s Run…

You can only expect highly stylized, glossy, slick and visually stunning movies. We’ll see about the stories.

His work has always been truly impressive, so check it out in his site.

Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has left us today at age 89. Farewell Mr Bergman.

BBC

The Criterion Collection has recently released Chris Marker’s La Jetee and Sans Soleil, both in French and English versions, and to top it all off, Mathieu Kazzovitz’s La Heine has also been released. It was about time someone stepped up to the plate. Finally.