Alice in Burton-land

You can keep your Star Trek. This is what a re-imagining looks like.

The Guardian has some promo pics from Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland...and it looks amazing!

Check them out!

The bad news is the film isn't due out until next year :-(

Movie: Public Enemies

This isn't really a review - just a quick rec.

I just got home after seeing Public Enemies. I knew I'd enjoy it. I mean, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the same film? It's not just the eye candy aspect: both men, in general, have really good taste in the projects they pick.

And I was not disappointed. The film does a great job of pulling you into the period. Johnny is amazing as John Dillinger especially in two particular scenes toward the end. The script pays a lot more attention to his character than to Chris Bale's, but Chris' performance, too, was very good. Subtle. I'm a bit torn on the way his character was treated. I would have liked to see a bit more of the human side of him - all the movie really shows is this dedicated cop - but on the other hand, movies that focus too much on the personal tick me off. The happy medium is hard to find.

The one disappointment was that the two male leads didn't get much time on screen together. And that's only disappointing becauce I was looking for the slash potential :-) Which I think is there in the way it is in any hunter/hunted relationship, but I was hoping for just a little bit more...

But seriously - good film, definitely one to see.