Tag: davidmitchell

This week's entry of New To Netflix continues with more time travel. Cinema itself is kind of a time machine, so watch as I contort this notion. Transporting us back to a time and place, or at least an idea...

Where to begin with Cloud Atlas? I admire the chutzpah of such an unusually expensive film experiment, but how far can admiration of ambition go if the result is so tedious? In his review published during the Toronto International Film...

Bold, brash, epic, and silly, Cloud Atlas is the latest of a slew of big budget sci-fi epics that's likely to find far more detractors than fans of its quirky style.Drawn from a popular book many considered to be "unfilmable," the...

Set for its first public screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Cloud Atlas is definitely phenomenal from a visual standpoint. The newly-released trailer swirls through settings that range from the 19th Century to the far future with...

When word came out that the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer had teamed up to bring David Mitchell's acclaimed novel The Cloud Atlas to the big screen the general reaction was disbelief. It was widely considered unfilmable, for one thing, too...

The upcoming big screen adaptation of David Mitchell's sprawling, time hopping novel Cloud Atlas has been much in the news over the last year thanks to its high profile cast, directing team and the unusual manner of its creation. The...

What should have been a run of the mill production start report over at The Hollywood Reporter this morning ended up being a fair bit more interesting thanks to some choice comments by Cloud Atlas producer Stefan Ardnt.Based on the...

Let it not be said that Hollywood doesn't look elsewhere for talent to utilize in its big budget movies. In this case it's South Korea and actress Bae Doona. According to news site Sports Chosun (via Soompi) the actress is...