August, 2009

A hectic past fortnight, including carnage at MIFF, interviews with actors and directors and an Everest-high pile of things on my to-do-but-haven’t-and-really-should list has caused the Trailer Watch section of Cinetology to neglect two big slices from the preview pie: the new glimpses of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. [...]

This time, they’ve gone too far. All cinephiles inevitably reach that unhappy conclusion every once in a while upon the news that a beloved personal favourite is being remade by Hollywood’s ever-regenerative dream factory. This morning it hit me like a sock full of pennies when I read that Steven Spielberg is getting his mitts [...]

Period films about desperate omnivorous men chowing down on each other’s flesh have felt rather underwhelming ever since Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle gate-crashed the genre in Ravenous (1999), Antonia Bird’s spectacularly shuddersome tale of U.S. soldiers in the American-Mexican war who devour the bodies and possess the strength of their slain-and-simmered, beaten-and-boiled comrades. Van [...]