Yes I think that using “sweet” is the perfect superlative to describe anything with Emma Stone. If you’re in the mood form something charming, uplifting and heartfelt, Dreamworks’ newest film, The Help looks to have you covered. Just the right change of pace for all the comic films coming down the pike this Summer. Enjoy! Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a small Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.…
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Sweet Trailer…’Stake Land’
In the success of most post-apocalyptic films like Mad Max, The Road, The Book of Eli and AMC’s The Walking Dead, Stake Land (no, not Skateland) looks to fit in nicely with its own bleak outlook on the future..this time with Vampires. Not as stylized as Day Breakers per se (and hopefully much better too), but for those of you tired of the overly glamorized Vampire films, this paints a gritty picture that I find oddly captivating. Have a look… A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to…
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FourScore Match-Up #9: “Synths and Sustainability”
Today we’re going to take a look at the films that have forgone the traditional orchestral score and instead paved new ground with something almost completely electronic. No you won’t find Ladyhawke here (which was so bad it was good…no it was just bad) but we’ll take a look at the epic worlds created by a few key stokes on a Casio/Yamaha or something synthetically similar. It’s not just what sounds great on an electronic keyboard, but also what holds up over time. So who will take the title as king of the digital domain? Is it the EDM duo seemingly born in “The Grid”, the master of all orchestral replicants, or…
