Alright, so we know what you’re thinking: Another cookie-cutter Iraq war movie. Explosions, guns, tension, half-baked and loosely interwoven love story, helicopters crashing, Matt Damon. But, hold the phone! We are quite happy (and pleasantly surprised!) to report that director Paul Greengrass’ latest offering, Green Zone, (inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s novel Imperial Life in the Emerald City) only has but half of these thriller-action clichés. And, much more substance beneath its Hollywood veneer. continue…

Jonah Hex is a movie adaptation of the graphic novel by DC comics by the same name. On paper it seems to have a lot of ingredients to a fun summer action blockbuster. I know a few people who are even excited to check it out. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s a hard rock western tale of revenge with lots of explosions and a seasoned cast. What could go wrong?
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Josh Cooley out of California does a lot of drawing. He does it for his job as a story artist but clearly also for pleasure too. Up on his blog he has a few fun series going on. One of my favorite is his Inapropriate Golden Books – a play on the Little Golden Books published for children, but with a mash-up of inappropriately non-kid-friendly movie material mixed in for good measure. Unfortunately his blog does not have a good categorization or sorting feature which means that you’ll have to hunt a bit for the Inappropriate Golden book pieces in particular, but the good thing is that the rest of the stuff you’ll be sifting through is also worth a look. It’s a shame he doesn’t update more often.

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Check out this Tumblr blog; Movies in Frames. It aims to distill movies to four-frame summaries. The results can actually be pretty effective commentary on the movie, not needing any supplementary text. As they put it; “One movie – four frames. That’s it.”

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