After wetting our appetites with a tantalizing teaser trailer as well as an enigmatic three-minute clip featuring Guy Pearce, 20th Century-Fox finally delivers some cinematic red meat with a jaw-dropping full-length trailer for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated pseudo-prequel to his influential sci-horror classic, Alien. Check it out here:
Blind Spot Pictures has released the first four minutes of the science fiction comedy Iron Sky on YouTube in a bid to work up early buzz — as if a comedy about the invasion of Earth by an army of Nazis from the dark side of the moon was apt to fall through the cracks. Directed by … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues unabated with the grindhouse action-crime drama classic Sex and Fury (1973), 9pm, March 11, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with … Continue reading
In 1910, Thomas Edison debuted a four-minute silent short film titled “A Trip to Mars”, kicking off a century-long, on- and off-again love affair between moviegoers and our sister planet. With the 90-day Mars Exploration Rover Mission mission now in its astounding ninth year, the increasing discussion of a manned mission to Mars as a … Continue reading
Sucker Punch isn’t just a triumph of style over substance, it also clubs logic into submission and kills subtlety in its sleep. A mash-up of what feels like every 14-year-old geek’s favorite pop culture tropes, it’s a whole lot of noise that adds up to little more than Inception for hormonal 14-year-old boys. The scant story (which … Continue reading
It’s a good day to be a geek: Marvel released another, flashier trailer for The Avengers, featuring plenty of screentime for each of Earth’s mightiest heroes and some nice action shots, including the Hulk footage that’s largely been missing from previous promos. It still keeps the identity of the alien menace secret for now. On top … Continue reading