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I was googling for a link to THX1138 (the only George Lucas film I truly like) in a previous post and came upon Movie Locations. What’s interesting is that some of my favorite movies (both serious and guilty-pleasures) were filmed near where i live in Silicon Valley.

The Cyberdyne scene in Terminator 2 was filmed in [...]

Possible Matrix Revolution spoilers. Best not click that link if you do not want to know in advance that a once promising franchise has been completely, utterly and devastatingly destroyed. The suckage continues to the bitter end.

Here’s the trailer for The Passion, the controversial Mel Gibson film about the last days of Jesus done completely in Latin and Aramaic. I’m not one to judge something without actually seeing it first, but given Mel’s “quirkiness” (to put it charitably), the movie is unfortunately already suspect in my eye. See also my previous [...]

28 Days Later is a violent, scary and deeply troubling movie. It’s also smart, philosophical and entertaining. Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) does an excellent job of redefining the modern horror genre by keeping the movie’s focus on humanity’s sink into the primal morass held within the context of a very literal sinking by [...]

I haven’t had a chance to see Reloaded in the theatre and probably won’t have the opportunity for a while. The next best thing to satiate that fix is the Animatrix, a series of animated short films set in the reality of the Matrix.
There is such potential here for great storytelling and fortunately there [...]

Possible script to the new Matrix Reloaded film? Good reading either way.

If you are a fan of Fellowship of the Ring, then the extended version with the 4-Disc set is something you would definitely enjoy. The movie was completely re-edited by Peter Jackson to include the deleted scenes, which gives the movie a very different feel. It is now a butt-numbing 3-hours and 45 minutes, not [...]

The Matrix Comics : “The Matrix is not an easy film to explain. Beneath a story of unexpected complexity, it is, at its core, a film of ideas and it is those ideas that have inspired this project: a collection of stories set in the world of the Matrix.”

These are big time authors writing great [...]

Speaking of Episode II, I remember the great time I had with my workmates three years ago when we took the day off, had a great lunch, and were the first ones in line to see The Phanton Menace. I’m sure my bud D.H. has it all planned again, this time with a Dallas posse [...]

This review (via Slashdot) means that I will be officially sick on May 16th:

“I won’t waste any time in saying that Attack Of The Clones is the most remarkable Star Wars film to date.
It not only breathes new life into the series, but it brings us back to the original magic that made Star Wars
a [...]