The viral marketing for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus continues apace, today with this video advertising the new ‘David 8’ robot, as designed by the ‘Weyland Corporation’ (the company that sends out the crews in Prometheus and the Alien films) and as embodied by actor Michael Fassbender. Enjoy, or be creeped out, or both.
We all know a few people like this, yes? A lot of them work at Williams-Sonoma, for some reason.
Posted on April 17th, 2012 at 3:18pm.
Some good new promotional teasers are appearing for the forthcoming season of Steven Spielberg’s Falling Skies on TNT. Check out this new one above. Hopefully the new show will actually be as good as the promos. Falling Skies has its two-hour, season 2 premiere on Sunday, June 17th.
And the alien invasions just keep coming. Check out the new sci-fi short film Chameleon that’s making the rounds, and also a teaser for the indie film Ombis. (Hat tip to io9 for those shorts.) And if that’s not enough for you, check out this set video of Toronto being transformed into Tokyo for Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming Pacific Rim; plus, you can catch this new video on the creature design for Peter Berg’s Battleship, or watch Ridley Scott, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace conduct an interesting, 36-minute discussion of Prometheus at a Paris press conference on April 11th.
Posted on April 16th, 2012 at 3:02pm.
Why is it so easy to put up Avengers clips? The movie seems to be built around pithy, glib, basically enjoyable moments like this one. Take a look.
Posted on April 16th, 2012 at 2:57pm.
Glad to see these gentlemen have our backs. The Avengers opens in 3D and IMAX on May 4th.
Posted on April 13th, 2012 at 2:28pm.
By Joe Bendel. Serial killers love killing teenagers. That is about the only convention upheld in a new horror mash-up that gleefully defies all the laws of nature and constraints of logic. Nothing will be allowed to suppress the body count in Joseph Kahn’s amazingly frenetic and kinetic Detention (trailer here), which opens this Friday in New York.
Man, where do you start with this? Possibly with arrogant cheerleader Taylor Fisher, who used to rule Grizzly Lake High, until she was murdered by a serial killer apparently inspired by Cinderhella, the horror-movie-within-the-horror-movie franchise character. Her place at the top of the status totem pole is filled by Ione Willis, who has been slumming with Clapton Davis, the childhood guy-friend misfit-mascot Riley Jones carries a massive torch for. She is having a bad high school career. Socially shunned and hobbling about on a walking cast, she was contemplating suicide until Cinderhella started stalking her. Unfortunately, everyone dismisses her claims as a pathetic plea for attention.
That is about the first five minutes of Detention. From there, Kahn steps on the gas, spinning out into outrageous territory. Teenagers will be hacked up, Jones will be humiliated several times over, the space-time continuum will be jeopardized, and audiences will witness a truly wicked send-up of The Breakfast Club.
Kahn is like a postmodern hipster Mel Brooks, launching an incredible barrage of jokes at the audience, which are rather clever, more often than not. Indeed, it is truly impressive how consistently he maintains the sheer breakneck pace of the madness. Viewers will leave Detention with their heads spinning like Regan MacNeil, but in a good way. Khan really has an unusual flair for visuals and a keen sense of pop culture. There is one extended scene marking the passage of time at Grizzly Lake through emblematic songs of years past that approaches outright brilliance.
Frankly, his ensemble cast deserves kudos just for keeping up the amped-up lunacy. They are all quite game, including Spencer Locke as Willis, which turns out to be a rather more complicated part than we might expect. Even Dane Cook is quite funny as Principal Verge, perhaps even redeeming himself for the mess that is Answers to Nothing. However, it is some of the supporting players who really bring the mojo, like rapper Dumboundead as Toshiba the exchange student and Walter Perez as Elliot Fink, a character beyond explanation in this limited space.
Detention is like Scream on a heart-bursting dose of speed. Just watching it careen by is a riotous trip. Largely self-financed by Kahn, Detention is quite an enterprising and idiosyncratic accomplishment. Enthusiastically recommended for horror fans not susceptible to seizures, it opens this Friday (4/13) in New York at the AMC Empire and in San Francisco at the AMC Metreon.
LFM GRADE: A
Posted on April 11th, 2012 at 9:09am.
Marvel’s highly anticipated The Avengers has its world premiere in Hollywood tonight, and more clips are now coming out from the film. In the scene above, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) confronts Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in Stark’s swanky New York City apartment over an invading alien horde Loki will be leading against Earth.
It’s amazing how many such hordes are attacking Earth these days – you’d think they’d have something better to do. Like help Lamar Odom resurrect his career.
Also: if you haven’t already read it, feel free to check out our LFM interview with Marvel’s Stan Lee from this year’s Slamdance Film Festival.
Posted on April 11th, 2012 at 9:08am.