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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Coyote vs. ACME

Director – Dave Green – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 101m

*****

After years of personal catastrophe because of the numerous defective ACME products he’s used trying to catch the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote finally decides to take the ACME Corporation to court – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 28th with previews Friday, August 21st

Cartoon character Wile E. Coyote (voice: look, he’s a silent character who never speaks, just occasionally holds up signs with words on) sets about his latest plan to trap the Roadrunner (voice: Tucker Hawkey). This time he can’t fail. Because. Jet-powered boots. Made by ACME. Yet, he inevitably, hilariously, fails. Because. Made by ACME.

He has had it with ACME. 

So, armed with a box containing the evidence, he visits low rent law firm Avery, Jones & Maltese (named after director Tex Avery in whose Bad Luck Blackie (1949) pianos fall from the sky, and director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese who created the Roadrunner cartoons) who advertise their expertise in successfully suing ACME for damage and stress caused by their defective products. Typical defective item: plaintiff receives maybe $300. This is chicken feed to the huge ACME Corporation, so they always pay up.… Read the rest

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Memory:
The Origins Of Alien

Director – Alexandre O. Philippe – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 95m

**** 1/2

A detailed examination of the ideas and personalities behind Dan O’Bannon, H.R.Giger and Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 SF shocker Alien – in cinemas on Friday, August 30th 2019, and then on VoD the following Monday, September 2nd 2019

When Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) first came out, no one knew about its most notorious scene. These days it’s been so referenced in films, television and popular culture that everyone, it seems, does so. If you’ve never actually seen Alien, watch it before seeing this documentary or reading this review.

You’d be forgiven, as this new documentary starts, for thinking you’d wandered into a different film. Spiders on sun-drenched stone surfaces. Footage of Greek temples. But then, visuals clearly inspired by Alien show three Furies waking up on the floor of a spaceship interior and advancing towards camera. The voice-over invokes the myth of Clytemnestra and the Furies, although… [Read more…]

Memory: The Origins Of Alien is out in the UK on Friday, August 30th 2019, and then on VoD the following Monday, September 2nd 2019.

Review originally published in DMovies.org.

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