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Friday One Sheet: MUTE (And Neon Dystopia)

Cyberpunk is back, baby! The 2017 revisits to Blade Runner and Ghost in The Shell, two of the most popular cinematic representations of the subgenre (outside the Watchowski's commercially mainstream Matrix franchise) have paved the way for some new voices...

First MUTE Images Show a Neon Soaked Future

Duncan Jones' long gestating sci-fi noir, Mute, is finally in production thanks to support from Netflix. Featuring Alexander Skarsgard as a mute bartender looking for his missing partner, the film co-stars Paul Rudd and The Leftovers' Justin Theroux. The first...

Netflix Nabs Duncan Jones' MUTE

Warcraft may not have performed as expected, but that hasn't deterred director Duncan Jones from getting on with his passion project, Mute, and finding a pretty big distribution partner in Netflix.  In a recent appearance on the Empire podcast, Alexander Skarsgard...

Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn't

Recipient of the Matt Brown "Monumental Drop" Award for most deserving second-weekend plunge, Duncan Jones' Warcraft already looks like an afterthought. Rightly so: Warcraft's terrible. Absolutely terrible. It makes Krull look like Dragonslayer. Makes Dragonslayer look like Willow. Makes Willow...

Review: WARCRAFT Should Please The Fans

(Damn, I wouldn't mind playing this as a videog... oh.) Once upon a time (1992), videogame developer Westwood Studios released a science fiction game called Dune 2, in which battling armies had to balance resource management with fighting, and almost...

Ben Foster Leads The Cast Of Duncan Jones' WARCRAFT

Warcraft, the ever popular fantasy game franchise from Blizzard Entertainment (also makers of Starcraft), has been set to come to the big screen for nigh on half a decade now thanks to the folks at Legendary Pictures. Once set to...

Dear Duncan Jones, Please Put Pandas In Your WARCRAFT Movie

British director Duncan Jones has been just handed a whopper of a project. Having earned deserved acclaim for his breakout feature Moon, and somewhat positive reactions from some of our own for his follow up Source Code, Mr. Jones has just...

Todd's Thoughts On SOURCE CODE

Duncan Jones' sophomore effort Source Code hits theaters today and is the subject of my weekly column over at Showcase. What did I think? Basically solid but not exceptional and I count leading man Jake Gyllenhaal as the weak point....

SOURCE CODE Review

On the way out of the screening of the mind-bending beat-the-clock thriller "Source Code", I overheard a fellow local critic making the comparison, "It's 'Inception' meets 'The Matrix'." Funny (although he wasn't joking), but I was thinking it's "Groundhog Day"...

SXSW 2011: SOURCE CODE Review

Is Source Code an apocalyptic Groundhog Day? It's very tempting to call it that, simply because the premise of the two films are, at first blush, similar: a man must keep re-living a limited period of time in order to...

Mondo Unveils Amazing Limited Edition Art For Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE And MOON

Memo to the folks at Summit: That image up above? That's the only poster for Duncan Jones' Source Code that should be used from this point on. I mean it.The poster was created by Olly Moss as part of the...

SOURCE CODE To Open SXSW 2011

Good news for fans of Moon and director Duncan Jones. Jones' sophomore feature, Source Code, has just been announced as the opening night film of SXSW. Which makes me wish I could be there. But I can't. Sigh.The film is...

First Trailer For Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE

After turning heads around the globe with his debut feature Moon Duncan Jones is back for round two with Source Code. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a time and consciousness hopping soldier on the hunt for a bomber this will be...

Clint Mansell Scoring Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE

The man is responsible for the most recycled and reused film score of recent memory for one very simple reason: he's very, very good.Clint Mansell will likely always be most associated with the films of Darren Aronofsky - it's...

Details Emerge on MOON Director Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE

Fans of intelligent science fiction, take heart in the news that the recent wave will continue with Moon's Duncan Jones bringing Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, and Michelle Monaghan to Ottawa to shoot the upcoming Source Code.Gyllanhaal will play a soldier...

Sitges 09: MOON Review

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