Micheal Keaton doesn't do enough movies so I'm pretty excited to see him in something dark and strange. This is edited together to seem like the movie is one continuous shot and the camera work is fantastic and fluid in this trailer.

Saddily this alternative and much funnier ending was not used.

A documentary which tells the story of visual effects house Rhythm and Hues and their financial struggles while producing the special effects for two effects heavy academy award nominated movies.  Just before they won the award for their work for Life of PI they had to file for bankruptcy and lay off most of their staff.  This film shows how Hollywood has made it nearly impossible for visual effects companies to survive and the nomadic lifestyle and uncertainty that VFX employees face.  It is a sad affair that the studios need to correct especially since they lean on and rely on these companies since a large portion of the summer blockbusters are effects driven.  It isn't uncommon now for a feature to have 80% or greater of the film contain effects shots.

Here is an accurate and sad look at modern movie posters and how in the era of big budget blockbusters the studios, which spend the same amount of money promoting and advertising movies as they spend on the movies themselves (hundreds of millions of dollars in some cases).  Yet, they completely forget about the posters, often using throw together photoshop work and simple generic formulas that look like they chose the lowest bidder and create the poster, which besides the trailer and commercials, is their primary advertising piece.

The first trailer from director Darren Aronofsky newest film and the first time he has had the money to make a big blockbuster of his career.  As one of my favorite film makers I am really looking forward to this and who knows what surprises Aronofsky has up his sleave for this ancient Biblical tale.  If nothing else it will be stunning visually given that all his movie are with factional budgets in comparison.

Watermark is a trailer for a documentary due in early 2014 that is the latest collaboration of photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal.



Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer that shoots large format photographs of sweeping views of large industrial landscapes such as scrape heaps, quarries, industrial refuse, mine tailings, and other grand vistas where environment, humans, and economy converge.  He travels the world and has made many trip to China and India in the last two decades to document the rise of these economic powers and the alteration of the landscape is subject in the documentary Manufactured Landscapes (2006).



Here are a few examples of Burtynsky's works from throughout his career from verious locations around the globe.

I loved The Host, a korean made movie about mutant monsters that emerge out of the polluted river now has a sequel and while I wasn't expecting or hoping for a sequel it looks like the special effects will at least be as good as the first movie.

The first movie was fun and funny, an overall great, entertaining film and now the sequel is off on the right foot with these spyshots of Jim Carrey coming into the series.



If you haven't seen the first film check out the trailer below.

He looks fantastic, totally identical to one of the greatest presidents.  This will be another memorable performance by Daniel Day-Lewis

Just over a week until this is out.  Can't wait.  It will be so amazing!

Ever shot I see for this film looks absolutely fantastic

This is fucking crazy but entertaining none the less.

The newest promotional clip for Prometheus.  Looking forward to this movie so much.

Knowing nothing about this film besides a preview I saw months ago that just basically showed Ryan Gosling sitting around in a 1970s muscle car, I watched it last night and it was one of the best, and coolest films I have seen in a long time.  The one thing that helped elivate and set this film apart from most others is the pulsing 1980s tinged electro soundtrack; sometimes krautrock, sometimes industrial, always cool.  Really great with the stylized, oversaturated orange and green Los Angeles of today.  The song below is played over the opening credits and is one of a few tracks that feature vocals.

Nightcall (feat. Lovefoxxx) by Kavinsky

While looking for the soundtrack and who was featured throughout the film I found that origanally the director Nicolas Winding Refn wanted Johnny Jewel of Glass Candy to score.  The producers didn't trust a 20 year old to score the film so they hired Cliff Martinez who was the perfect backup plan.  Three years in the making, Symmetry, the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, and Desire's more abstract sides shows possibly what Jewel had in mind if he would have been able to write the score.  Symmetry isn't his score for Drive but comes from the same place and has the same influences as Martinez's score.  An alternate audio history I suppose.
  


If you like Drive I suggest you watch Refn's last film Bronson, which tells the true life story of Britains most notorious inmate.  It features a batshit, insane performance by Tom Hardy who will become a household name this summer after squaring off against Christian Bale as Bane in Christopher Nolan's final Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.

This looks a hell of a lot better then what they ended up going with for the last set of Spider-man movies. Looks pretty close to how he should look.

Once again Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are colaborating with director David Fincher on his newest movie, an adapation of the Swedish crime noir The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  The duo previously worked with Fincher on The Social Network which they won a best original score Oscar.  The soundtrack for this movie contains 3 hours of music and will be available in Mp3, deluxe CD, and a deluxe 6 LP vinyl box.  If you click on the album cover below it will take you to Null Corporation Records site where you can download a free 6 track album sampler.  Sounds like it will be a very haunting and dark set.


Here is a stream of the first track of the album, a cover of the Led Zeppelin classic Immigrant Song featuring Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs taking over vocal duties.

Immigrant Song - Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross by Fluke Hawkins

Impressive choregraphy in one long take.