Monthly Archives: May 2010

Trailerwatch: Super 8, Eclipse, Splice, Jonah Hex, Inception, Winter’s Bone, Ondine, Nowhere Boy, Secretariat

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by Verena Kyratzes

Super 8

The teaser trailer for the much-anticipated new offering by J.J. Abrams of Cloverfield and Star Trek fame. I didn’t like either movie and can already tell you that because of that Super 8 is going to have a hard time winning me over. The fact that Steven Spielberg is producing is only a small consolation. The teaser itself looks decent and is saying as little as any teaser I’ve ever seen. One can assume that the final product will look good, preferably without Cloverfield‘s shakycam style, and will have a lot of big booms. I’ll reserve my final judgement until I’ve seen a proper trailer, or even better, until we’ve seen the movie.

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Attack of the Spambots

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It’s been quiet around here for a while, with both of us working on finishing major projects. We’ve also been getting an amazing amount of spam, but thankfully Akismet has been catching most of it.

New articles coming soon, including the long-delayed Avatar one.

The Underrated Mr. Donner

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by Jonas Kyratzes


The Omen. Superman. Ladyhawke. The Goonies. Lethal Weapon. With a list of credits like that, you’d think Richard Donner would be one of the most famous directors of all time. These films aren’t just popular or good, they are iconic to entire generations of moviegoers.

Maybe that’s part of the problem. The Omen is so famous for its central idea (so often imitated, rarely with any success) that it seems to be more of a concept than an actual movie, much less one with a director. With Lethal Weapon, the charm of the actors and their characters is so intense that it almost seems like no-one directed those movies at all. And with Superman… well, it’s Superman.

We humans do this all too easily: as soon as something has attained mythic status, we often forget that there was someone who actually created it. From the Bible to traditional oral storytelling, we tend to assume that those things were just there. But in doing so we ignore one of the most significant truths of all: that these masterpieces of art were written by one of us.

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