High school students of today can breathe a sigh of relief: rather than bother reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic literary portrait of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby, they can simply head to the multiplex to have all of its themes and meanings pounded into their skulls for two hours courtesy of Baz Luhrmann. On the surface, which happens to be the only layer his adaptation concerns itself with, Luhrmann has taken everything about Fitzgerald’s novel and distilled it down to its most fundamental truths, and transposed those truths onto film in the most recklessly over-the-top ways possible. Here, disdain for excess is conveyed with the utmost of excesses and…
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G-S-T Review…Aftershock
Good news for Americans traveling abroad: you no longer have anything to fear from suspicious, secretly vicious locals. Now you just have to watch out for cataclysmic natural disasters and falling debris, which conveniently bring out the bloodthirsty maniac and paranoid xenophobe in everybody. Basically, if traveling to another country seemed dangerous before, it’s even moreso now, but that’s only because Aftershock has no idea what kind of movie it wants to be, or even how to be it. Is it about Americans being menaced in a foreign land, or is it about how much mankind lives at the whim of shifting tectonic plates? Either way, it’s not particularly good, so it…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance Screening Passes To 'EPIC' In AUSTIN, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Thanks for your interest in 20th Century Fox’s EPIC. ———————————————————————————————————————— Go,See,Talk is partnering with 20th Century Fox to give 100 Austin area film fans FREE passes (good for you +3 guests) to an “Advance Screening” of Blue Sky Studio’s EPIC starring Amanda Seyfried, Beyoncé Knowles, Josh Hutcherson and Christoph Waltz. This screening will take place in AUSTIN, TX on Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 AM. Winners will be notified no later than Wednesday, May 15th. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Send an email to contest@goseetalk.com with EPIC_AUSTIN as the subject we’ll send you a PRINTABLE ticket to your email address…but it’s first-come, first-served so act fast!! Be one of the first 100 people to respond and you’ll get to see EPIC before all your friends.…
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Sweet Trailer…Edgar Wright's 'The World's End'
This year, barring some minor misfires, has been an outstanding year for films and it looks like things are only going to get better from here on in. Of the staggering amount of awesomeness coming down the pike in 2013 we’ve highlighted the films we’re most excited about and this Summer, between the comic book and sci-fi madness, we’ll finally get to see the final leg of Edgar Wright‘s so-called “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy. We posted some still shots last year but the first trailer for Wright’s uproarious looking comedy The World’s End has just been released so have a look below… It’s a full on alien invasion threatening the planet and…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance Screening Passes To 'EPIC' In DALLAS, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Thanks for your interest in 20th Century Fox’s EPIC. ———————————————————————————————————————— Go,See,Talk is partnering with 20th Century Fox to give 100 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +3 guests) to an “Advance Screening” of Blue Sky Studio’s EPIC starring Amanda Seyfried, Beyoncé Knowles, Josh Hutcherson and Christoph Waltz. This screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 AM. Winners will be notified no later than Wednesday, May 15th. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Send an email to contest@goseetalk.com with EPIC_DALLAS as the subject we’ll send you a PRINTABLE ticket to your email address…but it’s first-come, first-served so act fast!! Be one of the first 100 people to respond and you’ll get…
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Sweet Trailer…'Ender's Game'
There’s a lot to like about the first trailer for Ender’s Game, Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s beloved, iconic, and utterly important science fiction novel; it’s big, it’s grand, and it looks to appropriately capture the gravity of the narrative’s scope. Maybe the most awe-inspiring note here isn’t in the footage itself, but from the story surrounding the project. It’s hard to believe that after years of being told that Card’s book- which focuses on gifted children being trained by the military to combat an alien menace- is unfilmable, audiences of both fans and the uninitiated alike are finally going to get to see his vision on the big…
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Smoke, Mirrors, and the Mandarin In Iron Man 3
(Note: If you have not yet seen Iron Man 3, you probably should avoid reading this. Spoilers, big ones, lie just a few paragraphs down. On top of that, there’s some sensitive subject matter discussed here that’s tied to the film but stems from the upsetting topic of terrorism, which I imagine might make for difficult reading for some. Be advised.) Alongside discussions of its quality, its place in comic book cinema, and how it relates back to its source material, there’s going to be- or there ought to be- a healthy conversation about where Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 fits in our post-9/11 cultural dialogue. There’s something inherently daring about…
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“What’s New on Blu?” – Week of 05/06/13
Whether you rent or buy movies, Blu-ray offers the ultimate in sight and sound. Streaming is convenient, but if you plan on watching the movie more than once, you need Blu. So, What’s New On Blu? you ask. Well, good, bad or indifferent, Go,See,Talk offers up a trio of titles that are being released each week. Check out what’s hitting the shelves this Tuesday… ——————————————————————————————————————————— A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Based on a book in Lee Child’s crime series. Blu-ray Release Date (U.S.): Tuesday, May 7, 2013. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of…
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G-S-T Review…Iron Man 3
While we film fans, die hard comic aficionados and non, can thank Jon Favreau (and Robert Downey Jr.) for bringing Iron Man to life in an entirely fulfilling and believable way. That said, there were more than a few problems with its formulaic sequel. So, sometimes, it’s necessary to bring some fresh legs into the game to help the series go out with a win. For those of you not sure who Shane Black is, check out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Monster Squad, The Last Boy Scout and of course Lethal Weapon…we’ll wait. There’s a common set of themes running though all his movies and without sounding like it’s…
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[IFFBoston Review]…Some Girl(s)
If you’re only cursorily familiar with the work of Neil LaBute, you may find Some Girl(s) a bit surprising. Of course, he can only claim credit for Some Girl(s) on the page; here it’s Daisy Von Scherler Mayer, not LaBute, serving as the production’s architect, working off of his screenplay and adapting his stage play for the camera. But Some Girl(s) thoroughly feels like a LaBute film, and cuts through middling fare like Lakeview Terrace and Nurse Betty, not to mention utter fiascoes like The Wicker Man, taking us all the way back to 1997’s In the Company of Men, 1998’s Your Friends & Neighbors, and 2003’s The Shape of…
