There will be a number of films over the next year or so, that would be of interest... these are purely my selection.

check out all the trailers at TheMovieBox.net.

Cloverfield/1-18-08

ETA: January 18th 2008
In a nutshell: It's a JJ Abrams produced monster movie shot from the perspective of a handheld video camera.

Jumper

ETA: February 15th 2008

I found this site which collects the top movies that prophecies a dystopian future. dystopia is the opposite of utopia whereby the world descends close to chaos.

http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/

some of my favourite sci-fi flicks are in the list including blade runner, minority report, the matrix, twelve monkeys, serenity, ghost in the shell, akira, gattaca, dark city etc.

Recently BMW Malaysia concluded the "BMW Shorties" competition gaining 74 entries. The initiative was perhaps a welcome injection into the local film making & creative industry.

Whilst I am at the movies.... here's a short teaser from Spider-man 3.

The first two films were both excellent (the second slightly better)... and I expect the third to be equally as good. The appearance of the black alien / venom makes it exciting.

There's been quite some hype going on about Robin Williams' next movie "Man of the Year".

Basically, the story is about a stand up comic who decides to run for the office (and wins!) of the President of the US of A. Well what the hey.

The trailer clip looks funny enough with Williams' trademark deadpan comedy. What a laugh if somebody like him truly becomes the US president. Well after Dubya, there can't be anything worse.

Anybody who reads batman and daredevil graphic novels will know the name Frank Miller. It has been a while however since Miller penned anything related to either of the DC or Marvel superhero stories.

He has produced some landmark graphic novels such as -

• The Dark Knight Returns
• Daredevil: Born Again
• Batman: Year One

The new "Superman Returns" film is currently garnering positive reviews. What is interesting is that the film is directed by former X-Men & X2 director Bryan Singer. You will note that Rotten Tomatoes have given him a similar high score for the first two X-Men films (the third X-Men film was not directed by him and wasn't favoured by the critics). Singer also made quite an impact in "The Usual Suspects". He seems to understand the myth & mystery of larger than life characters. Perhaps the other director that can do good superhero films is Sam Raimi (Spider-man 1 & 2, Darkman).