Whilst the AFI have just unveiled their own list of the best films of 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who also have things to say about what deserves some recognition these days, thank-you very much, have released their very own picks. And they've decided that Michael Haneke's Amour is the best film you might possibly see this year, proving that this particular Film Critics Association are, like, unafraid to pick a foreign title as Best Picture. "I didn't even notice it had subtitles," said somebody in the Association who voted for it (presumably).
Now the year is almost up, the American Film Institute (or the AFI, as it's known by far more cultured folk) have divulged their picks for the best movies and TV shows to grace our presence these past 365 days, a list which choses to recognise Django Unchained and Les Miserables, though we haven't seen them yet, and Girls, because that's what's cool now. “AFI Awards celebrates America’s storytellers as collaborators," said AFI president Bob Gazzales. “We are honored to bring together artists as a community, without competition, to acknowledge the gifts they have given the world in 2012.”
Being a man of old-world sensibilities and traditional standing, Terry Gilliam has evoked to send his pal Johnny Depp - who whisked his friend's dream project out from under his feet, despite the fact that he's been trying to make it for over a decade - a letter regarding his plans to mount a Don Quixote film at Disney. 'Cause, like, hey, Johnny, weren't you supposed to be making that movie together?
As a fan of both Les Miserables and its song "The Confrontation", there's nothing I'd want to see less than two Australians having a go at murdering the thing within confines of a New York pub on a drunken Saturday night. Well, unless those two Australians happen to be Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, of course, who play Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert respectively in Tom Hooper's upcoming adaptation of the famous musical.
Either this is an image of Martin Freeman having accidentally stumbled into the executive's lounge over at Warner Bros. after they decided to split the The Hobbit into three movies, or it's an early glimpse of Bilbo Baggins in the second entry of Peter Jackson's latest trilogy: The Desolation of Smaug. By the looks of things, it's the latter, but only because Martin Freeman is dressed like a character from Middle-Earth.
Since Gabe Newell is a pretty big deal amidst this whole "let's play video games because everyone agrees they're great now" thing going on these days, his thoughts about the future of the medium are particularly noteworthy. And now Newell - who's a bigshot over at Valve - has mentioned that you'll be able to buy a living room-friendly PC package next year.
In what appears to be the dumbest thing you and I have ever heard, the Nintendo Wii U eShop in Europe currently only allows its customers to buy 18+ restricted content between the hours of 11pm and 3am, presumably because anybody underaged wishing to buy games with blood and violence and swearing absolutely wouldn't be prepared to stay up past 11pm to do so.
Now that having your character killed off doesn't necessarily mean the end of you pretending to be him in future film installments, the creative types working over on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have apparently called back Martin Sheen with such things in mind. The actor - who played forever-doomed-to-be-murdered-in-the-first-entry-to-a-Spider-Man-franchise character Uncle Ben in the Andrew Garfield-centered flick earlier this year - is returning for another whirl.
For those movie-goers who loved the brutal violence, 80s aesthetics, and bordering pretentiousness of Ryan Gosling/Nicolas Winding Refn's first team-up, Drive, you're next fix will most likely come in the form of Only God Forgives, the latest picture from this pair who are now considered the epitome of cool. A revenge movie about an exiled American running a boxing club in Thailand, the movie looks to be embracing the "brutal violence" part of the Gosling/Refn relationship, given what we've seen of our protagonist's face thus far in various promotional shots.
Yesterday a bunch of people were given the opportunity to watch a 9-minute prologue for the upcoming Star Trek sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, as directed by lens flare master J.J. Abrams. Despite the fact that Abrams asked everybody who attended not to give away too many details, somebody with great memory capacity has posted a fairly detailed synopsis online for everyone to enjoy. Check it out below:
