February 2nd, 2012
7 minute film by Aaron Sims
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.
February 1st, 2012
[Wikipedia:] Upside Down is an upcoming science fiction-romance film written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, the film is about a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth. Upside Down has finished filming and is now in post-production. Release is set for sometime in 2012
Upside Down – Trailer from HIPST?-FR?NK on Vimeo.
September 16th, 2010
Douglas Trumbull is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He was involved in the special effects of Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He also directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.
In his site, Douglas Trumbull has started covering the creation of the various effects sequences used in Blade Runner. In the first of a three part series, he focuses on creating the opening sequence referred to as the “Hades Landscape”.
October 23rd, 2008
Franklyn poster
Franklyn is an upcoming British film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow. Is expected to be released on january 30 in UK, but has already been reviewed at Variety.
Franklyn follows four intertwining stories, three of which takes place in contemporary London and the fourth takes place in Meanwhile City, a parallel fantasy environment. In Meanwhile City, atheist vigilante Jonathan Preest (Phillippe) fights against the various religious presences. Ultimately, his path crosses with three others (Eva Green, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill) from London.
Sadly, although the mix between these two movies sounds too good, it seems that the film doesn’t meet expectations.
A clever idea that could have worked as a novella, the urban-fantasy-cum-sci-fier “Franklyn” doesn’t cut it by the bigscreen rulebook. Shuttling between present-day London and a totalitarian, retro-futuristic city, this first feature by Brit writer-director Gerald McMorrow leaves viewers dangling for so long that most will have checked out emotionally before the big revelation an hour in. Visually striking head-scratcher — somewhere between “Blade Runner” and “V for Vendetta” in its noirish bits — looks to have more of a future as an ambitious but failed cult item than as a contempo earner.
Ryan Phillippe as Jonathan Preest, spends 80% of time in a mask
Well, sometimes I have enjoyed films with bad reviews. For what I see, visually could be nice but let’s wait.
You car read the entire review on Franklyn over at Variety.