One thing that can be said about Wes Anderson is that he certainly has a distinct style. With each new film he plunges deeper into his vision, unrelenting. He has become a darling of hipsters and college quasi-hippies while increasingly frustrating and dividing critics as his films grow more and more engrossed by his colorful, stylized whimsy. While I personally enjoy each of his works, I can understand the attacks of his critics. Christy Lemire of the AP said of The Darjeeling Limited ‘the latest self-satisfied exercise in style over substance from writer-director Wes Anderson, will amuse his cult followers — as well as Anderson himself and his pals, of course — but probably nobody else,’ while Kyle Smith of The New York Post’s Kyle Smith complained that ‘at a stage in [Wes] Anderson’s career when he should be moving on, he is instead circling back.’ Well now Anderson finally has done something different, while doing everything the same. He has taken his signature touch and applied it to a stop-motion telling of Rhoald Dahls’ children tale, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It is a perfect marriage. Read more…
February 21st, 2010
Kevin
Zombieland would benefit greatly if there was some Frank Zappa on the soundtrack, just sayin’.
In this Americanized
Shaun of the Dead, we have four main characters; Woody Harrelson plays the gun-toating badass Tallahassee, Jessie Eisenberg plays Columbus, his dweeby sidekick and our hero, Emma Stone is the hottie and that girl from
Little Miss Sunshine is her sister. They inhabit an America that has been infested with zombies. I don’t need to describe the zombies, they are the same as most zombies, not the new-age super-fast ones that jump out of nowhere for kicks and flash across the screen, more in the classic mold. Anyways most humans are dead and these folks are merely trying to survive.
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(In no particular order and totally non-definitive.)
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo Del Toro understands that the purpose of fantasy has always been an escape mechanism. Set in Franco’s post-civil war Spain, Pan’s Labyrinth follows a young girl, Ofelia, as she shifts between a mystifying dream world and an oppressively cruel real life living under her despotic and cruel army officer step dad. Pan’s Labyrinth is a thoughtful examination into the duality between our fantasies and the harsher realities of life and how the two can intermingle and bleed into one another. Pan’s Labyrinth is sublime, beautiful, and easily the best fantasy film of the decade.
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