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‘Battle for Terra’ delights in 3-D
The dialogue is full of clichés — “Lock and load, people. It’s crunch time” — but the environmentalist message is heartfelt. Some battle sequences look like a pastel-colored video game, but Battle is ambitious.
The opening images introduce the planet of Terra, where the peaceful inhabitants live gravity-defying lives filled with art and music. Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) flies around with best pal Senn (Justin Long).
When Terra is invaded by humans, and Mala’s father (Dennis Quaid) is abducted, she goes into fierce mode. She lures Jim (Luke Wilson), a pilot and soldier from the Earthforce Army, into a crash, then rescues him, and learns that the belligerent humans are the last of their species after Earth’s natural resources were depleted.
Continue ReadingLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century #1
From: Top Shelf
Writer: Alan Moore
Art: Kevin O’Neill
What if, underneath it all, Alan Moore’s just trying to tell us that he really likes jazz? That’s one of the questions that occurred to me during the reading of Century: 1910, the latest installment of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This notion presents itself as the story is suffused with characters from The Threepenny Opera (itself written to be performed by a jazz combo), which in its tunes contains lyrical allusions to favorite themes of Moore (like a black pirate ship, among others). Then again, and possibly more frightening, maybe this book is what it looks like when Alan Moore is just having . . . a good time?
When we last saw this League, it was in the pages of the Black Dossier. I enjoyed that book, but at the time that I reviewed it, I wondered if the presentation had more to do with Moore and O’Neill pleasing themselves (what with the Fanny/Tijuana Bible insert and the 3D section) over the delivery of a story. This time out, they eschew those extras and drive forward with the first of three new 72-page installments in the Century “arc”. Granted, there is one funny recurring gimmick (befitting the influences of Threepenny and The Beggar’s Opera, characters are wont to burst into song), but it’s not as obtrusive as the previous inserts or that volume’s apparent preoccupation with depicting lots of sex (must have been Lost Girls hangover).
Continue ReadingNikki Reed in Reported Twilight Affair with Robert Pattinson
Nikki Reed was a small part of Twilight the movie, yet seems to have heavily impressed Twilight mega hunk Robert Pattinson. Twilight is built on the chemistry between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, with Nikki Reed lending support as Rosalie Hale,
Edward Cullen’s adopted vampire sister. Now, as filming for New Moon starts, Nikki Reed is now right in the middle of the Twilight gossip scene, with reports that she and Robert Pattinson are together.
Reports from gossip websites have spread that Reed and Pattinson have been secretly dating on and off the Twilight: New Moon set. Lainey Gossip reported that Reed and Pattinson were together through much of last weekend, and hung out together after the Juno Awards.
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