Last night I returned to a place I haven’t visited in many years — Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ colorful and stylized Mars is wonderfully brought to life in Disney’s John Carter. I saw it with my Dad, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. The film is faithful to the spirit of the Burroughs’ novels (while making […]
I just saw the movie Limitless over the weekend, having previously read the book on which it is based (The Dark Fields, by Alan Glynn). The premise of the story is that you can take a pill which greatly amplifies and enhances your memory and mental processing–instantly providing what is essentially greater than human intelligence. […]
Image via Wikipedia The formula for a big summer action blockbuster could not be simpler: Start with an absurd premise. Use the absurd premise as a pretext for generating loads of over-the-top action sequences. Flesh out those action sequences with a bunch of over-the-top special effects. With Inception, Christopher Nolan has followed the formula dutifully, […]