Duncan Jones’ Moon was one of the best debut films from a young and talented director to have been released in quite a while. He got an amazing performance out of Sam Rockwell and the film looked like a mash-up of Kubrick, Aronofsky and The Twilight Zone. And while his next project, Mute (said to [...]
Duncan Jones’ Moon was one of the best films of the summer (read my bit about it here), so it’s great to see the burgeoning director have a clear vision of his next project.
Mute is Jones’ thematic and stylistic homage to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and it shows in this piece of concept art from [...]
(In this weekly column, I’ll take two films, one old and one new, and compare them in terms of theme and substance, hopefully in some interesting ways. I’ll be trying not to spoil too much of these films, but in order to dissect them properly I’ll have to venture into spoiler territory a little.)
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Despite early reports that Moon director Duncan Jones would be helming the upcoming World War II submarine picture, Escape From The Deep, today it is not the case. Keeping his hand in the science fiction jar, Jones will be taking part in the low budgeted film called Mute.
“‘Mute’ is about a woman whose disappearance causes a mystery [...]
Moon is a thing of beauty to watch unfold. It’s a simple concept executed so brilliantly that you’d be amazed to find out its director Duncan Jones’ first feature. He’s created one of the most unique films in a good while and maybe the best science fiction film of the year. Unfortunately it’s one of [...]
The summer movie season isn’t traditionally the best time to talk about how small a film’s budget is. Summer science fiction is supposed to be about guys named Kirk and Spock or robots named Megatron and Devastator. So far this summer we’ve beat up on Eric Bana with the crew of the USS Enterprise and [...]
Its double movie time for this week’s Under the Radar. The first of the two is the film entitled ‘77, the latest title that it’s been through within the past few years (previously being known as 5-25-77 or 1977 if that rings a bell). The film itself has gone through many hardships, been in and [...]
New to the scene, Duncan Jones is already getting quite the attention of many who have seen his upcoming sci-fi thriller entitled Moon. The story, for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, revolves around astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on [...]
