Posts Tagged ‘Duncan Jones’
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 42 – A Podcast of Thunder
The 42nd Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is here and this week we’re going Back to the Future!! We open by discussing the News of M. Night Shyamalan’s new Sci-fi project with Will and Jaden Smith, The Dark Knight Rises shooting in Pittsburgh, and we also offer up some thoughts on Duncan Jones’s film Source Code. Then continuing the theme it’s Time Travel Films for our Featured Topic of the Week, and what Time Travel show would be complete without a One Liner of the Week from Back to the Future? Listen in now! Time is short.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 34 – The Lord of the Podcasts
The 34th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is here and it’s epic to say the least. First up is the News in which we tackle the latest casting announcements for The Hobbit, and casting rumors for the female leads in The Dark Knight Rises. In “Vs.” we continue to earn our geek cred as it’s an epic battle for best film in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Next, we discuss our favorite Up and Coming Directors in our “Featured Topic of the Week” and lastly we have a “One Liner of the Week” from Rian Johnson’s High School Noir, Brick. It’s an episode so powerful you may have to throw it in Mt. Doom.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 26 – The Quest for Peace
The Filmdogs Podcast is back up and running for another action-packed episode. We discuss all the new Superman happenings, from Zach Synder to General Zod in the news, along with info on The Thing Prequel, delays for Mad Max 4, and just how accident prone Michael Bay’s sets are. In our Featured Topic of the Week we review David Fincher’s The Social Network, then to close out the show we have a One-Liner from Superman II. All in all this episode will make you believe a man can fly.
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Zack Snyder to Direct Superman Reboot
After the list of potential directors for the Christopher Nolan produced Superman hit the net, a lot of the film community was in an uproar. Consisting of Tony Scott, Matt Reeves, Duncan Jones, and Zack Snyder, the list was an underwhelming look at the direction the Superman franchise could take. Then to add another strange layer, Darren Aronofsky and Ben Affleck were two names thrown into the mix. Well now we can put all rumors and speculation to rest because according to Deadline, the director of Superman will be none other than… Read the rest of this entry »
Why directing Wolverine 2 isn’t a good idea for an established director.
Yawn...
When in the hands of a great director a comic book franchise can transcend it’s genre. Look no further than Christopher Nolan’s classic The Dark Knight for proof of such. Unfortunately, most of the time these properties don’t turn out the way fans hoped they would. The later X-Men films are good example of rushed productions, bad scripts, and studio interference. While Brett Ratner’s X-Men 3 was bad, the schlockiness really came to a head with the laughable X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The movie may be regarded as completely terrible by most sentient beings, but general love of the character Wolverine was enough to put butts in the seats. The film made $373,062,864 million worldwide, a sequel was greenlit, and the search for director to helm it has begun.
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Across the Pond | United Kingdom’s “Moon”
Did you hear David Bowie’s son directed a Science Fiction movie? This was the question heard around this time last year as the Duncan Jones film “Moon” began to make it’s way around the festival circuit. We don’t see many quiet Sci-fi movies like “Moon” nowadays. Explosions have replaced ideas as trash like “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen” have continually shown us. Read the rest of this entry »
The BAFTAs or Oscars with an Accent
It's the Oscar you can wear
“The Hurt Locker” took home all the big prizes at this years BAFTAs, the British version of the Oscars. Kathryn Bigelow added another notch to her belt on her quest to become the first female director to win a Academy Award by taking the Best Director prize. The film also took home Best Film and Original Screenplay while “Avatar” was snubbed in all the major categories.
Now wether or not these awards are a good indicator of the Oscars remains to be seen, but Bigelow is looking more and more like a sure thing. Especially after winning Best Director at the Directors Guild the other day. Check out her acceptance speech below. Read the rest of this entry »
