Showing posts with label The Wachowskis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Wachowskis. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

They want us up in their gray space pushing their WTF buttons


THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

2021
Directed by Lana Wachowski
Written by David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, and Lana Wachowski

Spoilers: severe

Monday, February 9, 2015

The object is remarkable for an enormous persistent anticyclonic storm, swirling about the low-pressure zone at its center


JUPITER ASCENDING

Good or bad, I knew it would be weird.  What I couldn't have known was that the Wachowskis' weird could be so boring.

2015
Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski
With Mila Kunis (Jupiter Jones), Channing Tatum (Caine Wise), Eddie Redmayne (Balem Abrasax), Tuppence Middleton (Kalique Abrasax), and Douglas Booth (Titus Abrasax)

Spoiler alert: mild

Sunday, February 8, 2015

You can't handle the true-true


CLOUD ATLAS

History is making us better, and it's only a pity we have to live through it: Cloud Atlas gives us a vision of something worth looking forward to.

2012
Written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer (based on the novel by David Mitchell)
With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Doona Bae, Jim Sturgess, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Keith David, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Xun Zhou, Susan Sarandon, David Gyasi, and Hugo Weaving (and I shall transcribe their characters' names unnecessarily only over my dead body)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Cold milk




SPEED RACER

Basically, Speed Racer is everything David Cronenberg didn't get to in Crash.

2008
Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski (based on the cartoon by Tatuso Yoshida)
With Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer), Matthew Fox (Racer X), Christina Ricci (Trixie Shimura), Rain (Teijo Togakhan), John Goodman (Pops Racer), Susan Sarandon (Mom Racer), Paulie Litt (Spritle Racer), Scott Porter (Rex Racer), Willy and Kenzie (Chim Chim), Kick Gurry (Sparky), Benno Furmann (Inspector Detector), and Roger Allam (E.P. Arnold Royalton)

Spoiler alert: moderate