Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Check out this slide show

Check out this slide show of Mike Russell's "history of Aeon Flux" strip that ran in the Boston Globe last Sunday. There are infer- ences about the general worthiness of the Charlize Theron-Karyn Kusama movie that Paramount is releasing on 12.2, although there's an explanation at the end of the Globe slide show that "all snark aside, the author has absolutely no idea how the live-action movie turned out." (He doesn't? Kids from Tibet and Afghanistan with their ears to the rails have an "idea" about this.) There will also be a one-page, slightly expanded "CulturePulp cut" of this comic available tonight at midnight on Russell's CulturePulp.com site.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 28, 2005 at 3:10 PM

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