What a bummer.

“But then they proceed to vomit out a movie so thoroughly incomprehensible and complicated that it can do nothing but bore/ alienate/ lobotomize kids everywhere. I will not attempt to summarize it simply because it cannot be understood. I defy anyone to completely explain this film that isn’t either the Wachowski Brothers or [...]

The weird marketing vibe that I keep getting from the upcoming Wachowski brothers live-action imagining of Speed Racer continues to get weirder. And vibe-ier. Take a look at the Mach 5 toy seen below, recently featured at the great blog Topless Robot. (click the image for a bigger version)

I realize that I’m feeding directly into [...]

I’m going to go ahead and run afoul of a lot of movie sites – some of which are my closest blog pals like Ray and maybe Piper – and say that the new Speed Racer trailer delivered by the Wachowski brothers from Warner Bros. is something pretty spectacular. And I mean that literally; it’s [...]

I’m sure the Wachowskis are planning something cool (click the picture) and I’m eager to see actual footage in order to figure out whether this will be zany, zippy, retro cool or ridiculous and crazy awful. USA Today has seven more stills from the movie and I’m curious: why do you think that Racer [...]

There’s a whole bunch of discussion about the Wachowski brothers getting their Speed Racer project greenlit – one of which can be found in one of the always-entertaining comment strings at Hollywood Elsewhere. To me, the whole thing seems kind of obvious.
Larry and Andy Wachowski are a pair of extremely talented filmmakers with a lot [...]