With properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears, the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father’s device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a beautiful but fragile veneer:
Directed by Giacomo Cimini, The Nostalgist is based on a short story from Daniel H. Wilson, who has a PhD in robotics and is a New York Times best-selling author.
“Death in Space” is a collection of 2 second scenes depicting the many ways to meet an untimely death in outer space, by Cardiff, Wales-based animator, ThomasLucas — poking fun at the careless curiosity of human nature:
Speaking of sci-fi & blasts from the past; Richard Kelly’s writing-directing debut DONNIE DARKO will be screening at an independent cinema here in Auckland to celebrate the film’s 15th anniversary, because that’s what good stories deserve!
Combining a high school coming of age story with a mindbending metaphysical thriller, Donnie Darko quickly became a cult favorite and helped make Jake Gyllenhaal a star. Now, we are celebrating the 15th anniversary of Richard Kelly’s writing-directing debut with Madman Entertainment NZ and hosting one special screening at our cinema June 10th. With a star-studded cast including Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone, Katharine Ross, Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle, Donnie Darko follows the title character, a disaffected teen who begins having ominous visions of a demonic rabbit. You won’t want to miss this funny and hauntingly original film on the big screen again!
My dad took me to see this when it had a limited run at Rialto, New Market. I had zero knowledge of it let alone expectations, and it turned out to be one of my favourite cinema experiences. I do have a lot of those. It’s funny, I remember desperately wanting to talk about it with someone when no one had even heard of it. Same thing happened with Shaun of the Dead. I am so happy DONNIE DARKO is a celebrated cult classic.
While looking for movies to watch I came across a story too random to possibly be true; Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys fame co-wrote a screenplay about zombies and turned it into a movie with his 90s boy band friends.
DEAD 7 stars Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, and Howie Dorough from The Backstreet Boys, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick from ’N Sync, Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees, and basically all of O-Town (Erik-Michael Estrada, Jacob Underwood, Trevor Penick, and Dan Miller). DEAD 7 has not surprisingly been described as a collection of tropes that recall everything from The Magnificent Seven to The Walking Dead to Inglourious Basterds:
This post-apocalyptic Western follows a group of gunslingers as they look to rid a small town of a zombie plague.
90’s boy bands v.s. the dance-move impaired seems a little unfair to me, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued enough to watch at the very least 10 minutes of it. Double points if they steered clear of making it a musical. Here is a favourite from the past:
Yeahhh, 90s music video production value; nothing like it. Take notes all you numerical directions, some quality fun’ness went down back then.
Alllright allright alright, as if Owen Wilson was contractually obligated to say “wow” or whisper in every film he is in, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey makes lots of noises in his. Noises that are not words. Noises that do not convey much information other than “Hi I am Matthew McConaughey and my mouth can make this sound.”
No, no, no. It is not some creepy sci-fi porn with Princess Leia giving Han Solo a little rub and tug. It’s a quirky low-budget Star Wars fan film from 1990, re-enacting the Death Star trench run scene from A New Hope. Directed by Itami Rose, the literally handmade Super 8 film was shot entirely using, you guessed it, nothing but hands:
Enters atmosphere with its own pumping theme music too:
On my way home and caught this on the freeway. The camera doesn’t capture it very well but the meteor was sparking a lot and had a green light to it. (Song is: Mt. Eden — Sierra Leone [Tommie Sunshine & Live City Remix])
According to NASA, the green hue that is described of the explosion indicates that the object contained magnesium, which suggests this was probably man-made space debris coming back down to Earth. Different metals glow different colours. The Griffith observatory additionally confirmed that the this blazing ball was likely a piece of descending space junk. Still, a cool capture.
On April 14th, Prince performed two intimate final concerts at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre – days before his death at age 57. The shows, part of his “Piano & a Microphone” tour, spanned Prince’s discography and incorporated a slew of covers (including David Bowie’s “Heroes” and Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You”). Great audience too. I love how they yell out their love for him between songs. A full recording of the second concert is available to stream via Soundcloud — Prince Live at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta – The FINAL SHOW:
The FINAL SET-LIST
• When Will B Paid • The Max • Black Sweat • Girl • I Would Die 4 U • Baby, I’m a Star • Ballad of Dorothy Parker • Dark • B-side Song (Indifference) • I Love U But I Don’t Trust U • Little Red Corvette • It was a non-stop onslaught of songs; • Dirty Mind • Linus and Lucy (The Peanuts theme) • back to Little Red Corvette • Nothing Compares 2 U
Encore 1 • Cream
• Black Muse
• How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore
Encore 2 • Waiting In Vain (Bob Marley)
• If I Was Ur Girlfriend
• back to Waiting In Vain
• back to If I Was Ur Girlfriend
Encore 3 • Sometimes It Snows In April
• Purple Rain (the crowd goes nuts)
• The Beautiful Ones
• back to Purple Rain
• Diamonds & Pearls
• back to Purple Rain