Attention: CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All passes have been claimed. Go,See,Talk is partnering with IFC Films to give film fans FREE passes to a special Advance Screening of OFFICIAL SECRETS. Click the image below, and register for PRINTABLE passes!! At the theater, show the screening pass – printed out or on a phone – to the attendant for first-come, first-served seats. This screening will take place onAugust 30 at 7:05 PM As always, the ticket is not an assigned seat, just admittance to the theater. Be sure to arrive at least TWO hours before the screening if not earlier to help you secure a good seat. Thanks for your interest and…
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G-S-T Review…Ender's Game
We’re living in a time when the phrase “unfilmable novel” can no longer serve as an excuse for poor page-to-screen adaptations of quintessential stories on the receiving end of the Hollywood treatment. Over a decade ago, Peter Jackson shouldered the burden of that challenge by taking J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books and turning them into a trilogy of three hour and change films (or one ten hour film, depending on your perspective) whose joint success led to criminal cultural misuse of the word “epic”; nobody can so cavalierly write off their inept filmmaking based on a text’s inclination toward being transposed onto celluloid. It’s a blatant cop-out. Which…
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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…