Beautiful New Thor Movie Images!

The Thor movie will be released only next year, but at least we have these beautiful images to give us a hint of what awaits us. Not enough, but at least it's some eye candy....

Source: IGN.com

The Inception Movie Comics

The Inception movie was released last Friday in the US, and as far as the trailer goes, the story seems quite interesting, and the looks are similar to that of Matrix, with amazing special effects.

The Yahoo! Movies site posted a comics, which introduces some of the elements of the movie. You can read it here: INCEPTION: THE COBOL JOB

The artwork is very good, done by Long Vo, Joe Ng and Crystal Reid of Udon, in the best "Western Manga" style.

The Inception movie has Leonardo Di Caprio as a lead, and is directed by Christopher Nolan (Batman: The Dark Knight), also starring Ken Watanabe (Cirque Du Freak), Ellen Page (X Men III), and Michael Caine.
This is the trailer for the movie. For more information, visit the links at the bottom of the post.



The Inception Movie Official Site

The Illusionist: The Magician’s Revenge

The Illusionist is one of the best movies of the last decade. It is an impressive thriller set in the late 19th century, which has flawless photography, lavish scenarios and wardrobe, making you feel as if you were inside the movie, living the action.

Sherlock Holmes: Dark & Dirty

The latest Sherlock Holmes movie is very entertaining. Though it was released on Dec. 25, 2009, in the US, it was released where I live only last weekend, so please ignore the delay...

Robert Downey Jr. embodies a dusty, decadent, devil-may-care Sherlock Holmes, which is perfect for this action-packed movie. Jude Law makes a very modern Watson, with nothing of the lackey-ish attitude usually attributed to the character. He's a fine and even counterpart for Downey's Holmes, often exchanging funny repartees with him, and a fierce fighter.

Besides the main pair, there's the seductress Irene Adler played by Rachel MacAdams, a clever resourceful thief, who outsmarted even Sherlock himself several times. And there's the villain, the ambitious Lord Blackwood, who wants to rule the world through the Free Masons.

To me, this is the first decent Guy Ritchie movie (Ritchie fans don't get offended!), and it has some smart fight sequences, special effects and a beautiful and properly dark photography. Late 19th century London is shown as decadent, dirty, messy and dangerous, which fits the plot very well. I bet this movie will have a sequence, which is already hinted at in it, when they mention the archrival Moriarty.

If you haven't already seen it, do it!




PS: Sherlock Holmes was the creation of Scottish writer and physician, Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote many books, not only novels, and was curiously eccentric. He was a Spiritualist, member of several paranormal research societies, and was involved in the ugly scam of the Cottingley "fairy pictures" of 1917, which doesn't make his beliefs less intriguing.

Just as it happened with several famous characters of the Victorian period literature, such as Alice and Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes started out as a dark character, who was a drug addict, at a time when the use of drugs was almost as common as that of smoking. (Check the interesting article by Mike Jay about it in the Darklore magazine.) Below a selection of sites where you can find more information about Doyle, Spiritualism and Sherlock Holmes.

Official site: sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/

More information:
www.sherlockholmesonline.org/
http://www.woodlandway.org/
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/articles/doyle/war.htm

1st Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Trailer!

Yesterday the 1st teaser for the penultimate Harry Potter movie was released, and here is the video. It looks great already! And to think we are still a year away... :( Enjoy!

PS: The other video was taken out, so here is a link that *still* works: teaser

Highlight: Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland

Tim Burton is producing yet another masterpiece, this time a dark psychedelic version of Alice In Wonderland. The Guardian has published a gallery with the first pictures from the movie. Here is a selection of them:

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. According to the Guardian: "...Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, resembling a dayglo-version of Adam Ant in his heyday, with a bit of Ronald McDonald thrown in for good measure, looks enough to have most small children running screaming from the room in terror" Hehe... Indeed. :b

Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen. Spooky!

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland... What did you expect? Summerland??

Read more news about the production here.