Posts Tagged ‘Martin Scorsese’

Three Trailers for Movies Howard and I Will Be Reviewing

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Since trailers for two of the films Howard Waldrop and I will be reviewing for Locus Online have recently dropped, I thought a trailer roundup was in order:

Cowboys & Aliens, directed by Iron Man‘s Jon Favreau, is up next on the guitar:

In November we’ll be reviewing Hugo (AKA Hugo Cabaret, based on Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret), a steampunk children’s fantasy from Martin Scorsese:

Which begs the question: Will Hugo be up for a Hugo?

Next year comes John Carter, AKA John Carter of Mars, AKA A Princess of Mars) directed by Pixar’s Andrew Stanton from a script written by Michael Chabon:

Lists of Top Crime Films

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Ever since the 70s Crime Film Festival I’ve been a bit on a crime film kick, having watched Get Carter, Mean Streets, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Casino and Scarface. Along the way I’ve found a few Best Crime Films lists that may be worthy of your attention:

  • Here’s a list of Top 25 Crime Films I can’t really quibble too much about, though I’d probably change the order on some.
  • Here’s the IMDB Top 5o Crime Films List, which is a bit more eclectic.
  • Here’s a Top 100 List broken out by sub-genre. Unfortunately, in addition to expanding the list to include things like Westerns, it also lets some dubious crap in. (Constantine and Rendition? Really?) And Ronin is a great car chase surrounded by a pretty mediocre thriller.