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Saturday, Dec 27
Five Reasons To Stay Alive Until 2010 At Least [The Year That's Coming]
Maybe it's just my cynical eye, but with the exception of the Wachowskis and Speed Racer (and, arguably, Chris Nolan and Dark Knight), 2008 seemed pretty light on big name directors trying to dazzle us. Thankfully, 2009 offers at least two movies to fill that void. James Cameron's 3D Avatar...
Friday, Dec 26
Best And Worst Science Fiction Movies Of 2008 [Io9 2008 Year In Review]
8. Speed Racer. Pretty much everyone hates this movie except us — Entertainment Weekly listed it twice on its year's worst lists, even as the mag praised the bland Benjamin Button. But we really did love this film, for its crazy, surreal CG vistas and fun follow-your-heart storyline. Racer wa...
Friday, May 9
The Original Speed Racer [Mangobot]
The characters in the original Speed Racer are not atypical of Japanese anime. In fact, you see the repetition of these same types of characters to this day—the adventurous, disobedient young male hero, the feminine-yet-sassy girlfriend, the wise but slightly goofy father, and the unb...
Thursday, May 8
Speed Racer is Rewardingly Weird, State-of-the-Art CGI Slapstick [Speed Racer Review]
The hype about Speed Racer has been fairly negative, and I can only guess that's because people still have a bad taste in their mouths from The Matrix Revolutions, the most recent film directed by Speed Racer helmers the Wachowskis. In addition, I think there's been a lot of skepticism abou...
Thursday, May 1
Doctor Who Rumors That Are Too Weird To Be True [Morning Spoilers]
Speed Racer: Here's a featurette that IGN Movies posted, showcasing Matthew Fox's Racer X character from Speed Racer, including a few snippets of footage we haven't seen before. It looks as demented as everything else I've seen from the film. [IGN Movies] X-Files 2: Iron Man:
Tuesday, Apr 29
The Awful Wreckage Of Speed Racer Spinoffs [Speed Racer]
Speed Racer: The Next Generation (2008). A new animated series airing on NickToons and then coming out almost immediately on DVD, this series looks like it'll consist of three 30-minute episodes squished into 90-minute TV movies. Like Speed Racer Lives, this is all about the son of the ori...
