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[Lord Anubis]

embrace the Dark Side, Pete.

Never!  I'll never join you!

[Victorya]

I saw Attack the Block which had cool aliens in it.  It was a'ight, fun.

[Rob Pegler]

Hanna. Pretty much what you get when you take Dark Angel, cross-breed it with Leon and pour Hansel & Gretel all over it. I liked it, especially since it wasn't the action flick I was half-expecting it to be.

[Thom Brannan]

Never!  I'll never join you!

of course not. just remember to have like, a 500GB external hard drive whenever we meet at a con or something. heh.

[Rob Pegler]

Cowboys and Aliens. About 10,000 times better than I expected it to be. It's nice when you go into a flick expecting it to be entertainingly bad, and then it ambushes you by being surprisingly good.

I still say the title sucks, though.

[Thom Brannan]

Thunderball

i really enjoyed this one, too. i'm really digging the 007 movies. i don't know which ones i saw first, but i had an idea in my head that i didn't like these. Casino Royale sparked my interest again. these first five have been ass kickers. i hope i enjoy the rest of them this much. but i'm not holding my breath.

the next one is up in queue after "The Sensorites," some vintage Doctor.

[Lane Adamson]

i'm really digging the 007 movies . . . i hope i enjoy the rest of them this much.

The Roger Moore ones get a bit campy (and progressively more so), after the Connery version; then they lose most of the goofiness with Dalton and Brosnan.  Sometimes I think I'm the only one who actually liked George Lazenby.

[Rob Pegler]

You know, after all the expectations about what a great Bond Brosnan would make back in his Remington Steele days, I found him rather lacklustre when he finally took the role. It was almost like he couldn't be bothered. Most of the others delivered the cheesy one-liners with gleeful abandon, but I swear sometimes even Brosnan was cringing at the lines coming out of his mouth.

Of course, when the line refers to "pumping her for information" you can't really blame him.

[Zombie Zak]

Zombie Allegiance - hehehe; bad but stupid, but funny.

The Three Musketeers (2011) - I seem to have "forgot" reading about the airships in the original book ... fun, if you turn your brain off for a bit ...

[Lord Anubis]

Rodan.  The original with multiple flying reptiles (pronounced "reptils" throughout the film).

I'm not sure I ever saw this as a kid.  It was actually pretty sad and depressing.  Doesn't come across as a pair of monsters destroying the country, it's more like two confused animals getting slaughtered by the military.   

[krakenten]

'The Fabulous World of Jules Verne', an oldie but a goodie. Based on a minor Verne work called "Facing the Flag" and several other titles as well, it uses a strange animation technique that mimics steel engravings, with live actors. I saw it in the theater, way back when, but it holds up very well.

This may well be the greatest steam punk work of early days, phantasmagorical experience, and a lot of fun.

Czech animation is usually good, it makes a good double feature with 'Fantastic Planet' and a quietly mind bending excursion into the strange.

Too bad 'Street of Crocodiles' is so hard to find.

[Victorya]

finally saw both parts of deathly hallows, oh man, it was a gorgeous gorgeous film.  And good too!

[Rob Pegler]

it uses a strange animation technique that mimics steel engravings, with live actors.

Rotoscoping?

[Matthew]

Saw several this last week.

Castle in the Sky - Miyazaki at his best!  This is a beautiful and riviting adventure.

Tales of Earthsea - Wonderful but flawed. The combination of Miyazaki animation and Ursule LeGuin's magical was great but there were several important plot points that were never explained. The result is a movie that is emotionally affecting, but intellectually confusing.

Tintin - My school library in 6th grade used to subscribe to a magazine that reprinted Tintin and I thought it was one of the cleverest, most exciting comic strips I'd ever seen. The movie is a delight with all the main characters in evidence. Like so many recent movies, it goes over the top with a couple of the action sequences and what should be thrilling become a muddle of fast moving images.  Still, it's a great movie and very much in the tradition of the best Indiana Jones films.

[Rob Pegler]

Just tell me the dialogue includes at least one use of the phrase "blistering barnacles" and I'll be happy.