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Thursday, Mar 12
What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
After I saw Watchmen, which was a bumpy but intriguing ride, I realized what the movie was missing that might have saved it. It needed the visual pyrotechnics of the Wachowskis, whose movies always make you feel like your eyeballs just got an upgrade. Watchmen may have been gorgeous, but it w...
Saturday, Feb 7
Yatterman Is Live-Action Anime Done Brashly And Brilliantly [Yatterman]
But I was underwhelmed at first by the opening sequence screened at Yatterman's Comic Con panel: it seemed like a lot of noise and neon and whizzes and bangs and real-life people contorting themselves into the overdramatic poses that animation can get away with, but live-action too ofte...
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...
Monday, Jun 23
A Virtual-Reality Racetrack Turns Into A Death Trap For Speed Racer Jr.
Speed Racer: The Next Generation seems to be showing new episodes again on NickToons, even though TV Guide says it's a rerun. I'm pretty sure this episode, "The Fast Track part 2," has never aired before. Strange events at the Redwood Rally startle Speed, and he begins to suspect that someon...
Thursday, May 15
Speed Racer Could Have Been Star Wars, Says John Scalzi [Speed Racer]
In an interesting column over at AMC, scifi writer and film critic John Scalzi explains why Speed Racer is doomed not so much because of its content, but because of the changing economics of film distribution. He points out that when Star Wars went into wide release in 1977, it garnered the e...
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 plot of the flick couldn't be simpler. Nice kid Speed Racer wants nothing more than to compete in the big leagues of racing. His family runs Racer Motors, a tiny independent car design company that turns out beauties like the Mach 5 (and later, the ultra-awesome Mach 6). After he wins his fi...
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...
