[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6cH_Fg3ds8] Directed by Thomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy –…
2011 will probably mark the first year where Pixar is not the lock for the best animated Oscar category seeing how Cars 2 got ripped apart (German speaking countries have to wait until 27th July to judge for themselves if those reviews are accurate). Maybe people were too harsh on Cars 2 because it is made by Pixar and looking at the trailers it seems more like a Dreamworks cashgrab instead of a sequel like Toy Story 2 and 3 – but then again Pixar has set the bar so high they are bound to get measured differently.
Thankfully 2012 will mark Pixar’s return to original stories with Brave:
The second Captain America Trailer aired: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4DlMggBPvc] I am very curious how they will market…
The highly anticipated two parter (The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again) that will take of December 2012 unveiled three images of the first part featuring Bilbo Baggins (the porn actor from Love Actually) and Gandalf (Magneto v1.0):
Terence Malick’s Tree of Life is about an American family and in between there are some shots of National Geographic.
The film has been on the radar of many Oscar-bloggers but surprisingly this is not really a typical Oscar-bait film. It is much more in the spirit of Cannes (where it won the Palme d’Or) meaning “if it doesn’t hurt it is not art”.
Thankfully I watched the movie two days before they gave the highest honour of Cannes to it so I did not know whether this movie was highly regarded or not and I guess I would have been a bit more disappointed having heard the insane praise this movie received before entering.
When Gary Oldman said that the script of The Dark Knight Rises would bring the story full circle the speculations started to rise. Generally the news about this movie keep dropping in and the more we know the stranger and unpredictable this movie starts to look (which is actually refreshing seeing as of today we can basically predict most of what’s going to happen in Amazing Spider-Man).
Now there have been reports about a certain cast member returning from Batman Begins which basically might kick The Dark Knight Rises into fifth gear (well at least for me).
Warning spoilers ahead:
