Duncan Jones’ 2009 sci-fi drama Moon kind of crept up on audiences, but they quickly fell in love with its intimacy, it’s ambition, and its inventiveness. Made for a mere $5MM, its setting and effects gave the impression of a much larger-budgeted film, and Jones’ direction combined with a career-defining…
Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for Moon happens Saturday! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Saturday the 12th. Thanks!
The poll results are in – thank you to the 81 voters who took part. The next MOTM will be Moon, which destroyed the competition by taking in 27.2% of the votes. Here’s what goes down from here: * The first thing you need to know is that November 12th…
Tom Hardy has been acting in high-profile films since the early 2000s (Black Hawk Dawn, Star Trek: Nemesis), but it wasn’t until 2008 when he made a name for himself, first in Guy Ritchie’s “comeback” film RockNRolla, and subsequently in the film of the day, Bronson. The sixth film from…
The poll results are in – thank you to the 71 voters who took part. The next MOTM will be Bronson (how perfectly coincidental, hot on the heels of the superhot Drive). Here’s what needs to go down from here: * The first thing you need to know is that…
Are you ready to get your Nouvelle Vague on? We take a gander at Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à parte for the MOTM this time out. For those unfamiliar with it, the plot synopsis from IMDb: “A triangle: Franz, Arthur, and Odile. Franz, a young man with Alain Delon…
Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for Bande a part happens Saturday! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Saturday the 24th. Thanks!
The poll results are in – thank you to the 80 voters (tying the record high) who took part. The next MOTM will be Bande à parte. Here’s what needs to go down from here: * The first thing you need to know is that September 24th is the big…
Renny Harlin’s 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight was, for better or worse, mostly left behind by audiences. With a $65 million budget and close to $100 million in worldwide receipts, it undoubtedly made money, but its $33 million gross in the United States stamped the film as a failure…
Reminder: The LAMBcast/MOTM blog-a-thon extravaganza for The Long Kiss Goodnight happens tomorrow! Send your links for posts/reviews to [email protected] by 6:00 AM Pacific on Saturday the 20th. Also – if you have any suggestions for movies that you want to get on the poll for future MOTMs, get them in…
