In “Jack Burton” we catch up with Jack (Kurt Russell) at his cabin by the lake. The lumbering, slobbering Wild-Man, last seen emerging from Jack’s rig, is somewhat pacified now and is his pet. Jack himself is up to his old tricks: hauling ass, gambling and pumping himself up on the CB. He’s also having…
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“Alien Three”
By no means is this an original idea. It taps the “Alien” well that we already know more than once. But what it does do is suppose a second sequel that includes Hicks, Newt and the android Bishop. David Fincher’s “Alien 3” killed the former two in the prologue of that film and unplugged Bishop…
“They’re Living”
Nada lives! After a spray of bullets from that helicopter in the final seconds of John Carpenter’s “They Live,” our wounded blue-collar hero is dragged to an unlikely place by an unexpected ally, zapped by the physics of light to the aliens’ home world by some of the very blue-skinned B.E.M.s that subliminally control Mother…
Busan Cinema Center (2012)
To the question whether it’s still open for business now that Busan’s international film festival (BIFF) has wrapped – absolutely. In front of me, I hold two brochures. The first is an upcoming schedule of film screenings and live performances both theatrical and musical, the second lays out the complex itself. How many square meters?…
Pixel Project
I’m not a painter, at least not on this day. Or since! An early assignment we had in Intro to Studio Practice at NSCAD was to select a high contrast image and block it off in squares. Using gouache, a quick-drying spirit-breaking watercolor, we would approximate the image using tonalities. Squinting at the final work…
Darth by the Sea
Crushing the Rebellion is a dark enterprise but just as much exhausting I suspect. Incompetent generals, poor throne-room lighting and regular humiliation at the hands of heroes with names like “Luke” and “Han.” Come on. Even a Sith Lord needs to take five. On this occasion, it’s via Maritime serenity along the Nova Scotian coastline….
Dystopia
A selection of photos from a 2015 NSCAD project on dystopic cinema. The photographs were inspired by the films I chose and were not meant to recreate specific scenes.
Colin Moore 