Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'davidfincher'
February 21, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The concept of controlling a computer and/or a video game with only your mind has been around for a long time, and lately it's been getting closer and closer to reality. Now it looks like the reality is finally here: a neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain and sends them wirelessly to a USB dongle connected to your computer......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"August 23, 2007
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Here's a rumor we hope isn't true: the JLA movie might be done entirely in motion capture CGI. Blargh! We want either completely animated characters, or real people in real suits, not some creepy hybrid of the two! We heard a long time ago that Morgan Freeman and David Fincher were developing a film adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, but......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"March 2, 2007
Director David Fincher's latest film, Zodiac, is, like a number of his other films, another crime thriller examining tortured, obsessed, and violent human beings. But this time it's based on a true story: that of the serial killer who called himself Zodiac, and who was active in the area around San Francisco in Northern California for a number of years during the late '60s and early '70s. But really the film is less about the......
Continue Reading "CinePhillyist Reviews... Zodiac"March 2, 2007
What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Puccini for Beginners - The concept: an operatic screwball romantic comedy. A New York writer and opera addict (Elizabeth Reaser) gets dumped by her lesbian lover because she can't commit, and ends up starting secret relationships with two other people - a philosophy professor named Phillip and a girl who used to be straight named Grace (Gretchen Mol). Little does she know that Phillip and Grace......
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