Oct 22 2009 The Weekend in Moving Pictures
Looking for a way to break up your weekend of binge drinking away your sadness? See one of these new releases:
Saw VI
Director: Kevin Greutert
Starring: Saw, some people Saw will make chop of their foot or some garbage
Good if you want to see: Jesus, another fucking Saw movie?
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Paul Dano
Good if you want to see: a kid become a vampire, thanks to John C. Reilly the Vampire; some sort of freak show? I don't know, I'm just basing this off the commercials. It's not like I'm going to read the book or something.
Amelia
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Good if you want to see: Hilary Swank play a somewhat masculine woman, which history tells us is a popular way to view Hilary Swank; a lady flying a plane!? Crazy!
Astro Boy
Director: David Bowers
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell
Good if you want to see: a man create a robot boy for himself, but not in a creepy way.
Ong Bak 2 (limited)
Director: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Starring: Tony Jaa, his many victims
Good if you want to see: Tony Jaa fucking destroy some people with all these awesome moves (if you've seen Ong Bak, you know how legitimately awesome that is).
Antichrist (limited)
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Good if you want to see: just watch the trailer. If you're into that, go for it.
Aug 25 2009 'Astro Boy' Poster: Science Can Build a Robot Boy, But It Can't Force Him To Care
Cinematical has debuted the final Astro Boy poster, depicting the scene in which Astro Boy leaves his friends to either be smashed by a massive robot or burned alive in an explosion of intense white energy as he sets off on his quest to find cooler, robot friends. I hope that isn't a spoiler.
Aug 11 2009 'Astro Boy' Trailer: What a Great or Despicable Character
Sometimes you can gauge how great a movie character is by how much you wish you could somehow actually be them. Characters like Indiana Jones and Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters were some of my favorites as a kid--men who, despite their obvious flaws, I always wished I could somehow become--and they've remained favorites of mine today.
Watching this trailer Astro Boy, I was surprised to find some of those same feelings of wishing I could be a character popping up when I'd see the eponymous android zipping through the sky. Only, now they were different. Now that I'm getting older, starting to fear aging, my wish comes not out of respect or admiration for the character but out of jealousy that this little asshole is perpetually youthful and super powerful. Because fuck you, Astro Boy. Who are you to be so awesome? In fact, my second wish, if I can't be him, would be to destroy him, so that I wouldn't ever have to see him flying around being awesome and young until the day I die.
So I guess maybe he's not so much a great character as an enviable character who needs to either be destroyed or become me somehow.
I don't know where I was going with that, so anyway, here's the trailer:
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Mar 24 2009 'Astro Boy' Trailer: We Should Never Give a Child Such Immense Power
It's '60s anime meets CGI; it's A.I meets Japan; it's Edward Scissorhands meets Superboy; it's Weird Science meets My Two Dads; it's whatever you want it to be (of those options)! The Astro Boy teaser trailer:
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Mar 23 2009 New 'Astro Boy' Promo Art: IS THIS HIS ASTRO SOUL?
I know next to nothing about the Astro Boy character, but if the time ever comes that we decide we've entrusted too much power in the body of a child, and we have to take him out, let's all shoot at that glowing mass in his chest. Everything I know about weak points tells me that's his weak point. Let's just hope it never comes to that.
Nov 20 2008 'Astroboy' Teaser Trailer: He Wears a Shirt Now?
Since when does Astro Boy wear a shirt? As a purist and an android pedophile, I demand answers. Furthermore, why does he have the same laugh as an over-excited Mario? All this trailer tells me is that it will be an awesome video game:
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Feb 28 2008 Charlie (of Chocolate Factory Fame) to Voice Astro Boy
Imagi International has announced that Freddie Highmore--the kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Finding Neverland--will provide the voice for Astro Boy in the CGI adaptation of the manga. I guess the character will have an English accent now, instead of the Charlie Chan-style Engrish accent I was hoping for.
Freddie Highmore Signed for Imagi Studios' ASTRO BOY [Imagi]
Nov 12 2007 'Astro Boy' Concept Art
With this concept art for the Astro Boy, I'm not sure if I'm more annoyed they're deciding to make concept art at all (are the 50 years worth of manga not enough?) or that they're making such pathetic little changes. More metal stuff on the arm gun? F***ing brilliant. If anything, make him less naked, or at least do something that would distinguish him from a cyborg Big Boy.
AstroBoy Concept Art and Director Interview [FirstShowing]
Oct 3 2007 'Astroboy' Poster is Kind of Awesome
There's absolutely nothing funny about this awesome teaser poster for the big-screen adaptation of the Astroboy anime. Unless you pretend that's poo shooting of him! Ewwww, gross!
Astroboy Poster [Latino Review]
