Tag Archives: Time Travel

Director Rian Johnson’s time-travel actioner with Bruce Willis and JGL gets a beautiful animated trailer, with artwork and music by the director’s brothers…

If you weren’t convinced that “Looper” might be one of the year’s most exciting sci-fi films, then this stylish new trailer might change your mind…

Take a look at the shots below. That’s “Inception” and “[500] Days Of Summer” star Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Something seems a bit different about him, doesn’t it? That’s because he’s under heavy prosthetic make-up. In the time travel thriller “Looper”, Gordon-Levitt is playing the younger version of Bruce Willis. In order to more closely resemble Willis,Continue Reading

Director Rian Johnson has been making a name for himself with his smart, stylish films. All two of them. Yes, he may not have much of a body of work, but this is a case of quality over quantity. Besides, the guy’s still relatively young, so he should have a long and distinguished path aheadContinue Reading

Time-travel in literature is very well represented. But not always well-written. The last decent piece of writing that featured the sci-fi conceit that I can recall is Audrey Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife”. It was turned into a feature film and while I never got round to finish watching it, I’ve been told by fansContinue Reading

One of the things to delight in when (re)watching “Men In Black” are the multitude of cool alien designs. They really went all out there, populating crowd scenes with all sorts of weird and wacky creatures, some of which hardly even registered on screen. Now, the third film in the series is attempting to bringContinue Reading

The arthouse approach to sci-fi can work within the Hollywood studio system. “Source Code” is one such anomaly, but is it great or just a great trainwreck?…