© 2010, Warner Bros. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page Directed By: Christopher Nolan Not everyone is going to like Inception. Not everyone likes, say, Fight Club, or Inglourious Basterds. Mainly because they went in expecting one thing and came out with something entirely different. And this is Inception in a nutshell. Slick, engaging, tense, yet maybe nothing at all like you expected. The screenplay by director Christopher Nolan, apparently decades in the making and originally a horror story, is constructed as his own personal maze in which to lose viewers. The meat of the film, the heist or ‘Inception’, incorporates several plots working concurrently towards a single narrative.…

© 2010, Warner Bros. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page Directed By: Christopher Nolan Not everyone is going to like Inception. Not everyone likes, say, Fight Club, or Inglourious Basterds. Mainly because they went in expecting one thing and came out with something entirely different. And this is Inception in a nutshell. Slick, engaging, tense, yet maybe nothing at all like you expected. The screenplay by director Christopher Nolan, apparently decades in the making and originally a horror story, is constructed as his own personal maze in which to lose viewers. The meat of the film, the heist or ‘Inception’, incorporates several plots working concurrently towards a single narrative.…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 20 Jun ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1837-1919, News. Tagged cravat, frock coat, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, lounge suit, Robert Downey Jr, stiff collar, Victorian. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Not sure if these new posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes are Photoshopped portraits or paintings, but either way they give further insight into the costume style adopted by the movie, which is proving unusual to say the least. See them HERE. Ritchie has been adamant for a while now that Holmes would not wear a deerstalker cap or MacFarlane coat, so no surprises there. Watson however is a bit…

© 2010 Ben McCarthy. All rights reserved. Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska Directed by: Tim Burton When it was first announced that Tim Burton planned to direct the latest adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, most moviegoers were rejoicing as it seemed to be a match made in heaven. Burton’s gothic outlook would likely be used to great effect, knowing too that he would inevitably bring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter into the mix. Indeed what we expected with Burton’s version is what we’ve got. Though this is actually the main problem. The story focuses on 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) who is faced with…

© 2010 Chris Laverty. All rights reserved. 21 Jul ’10 Filed under News. Tagged Anthony Le, Comic Con, Don Cheadle, fan costume, Geektyrant, Iron Man 2, Kristin M. Burke, Marvel, Mary Zophres, Paramount Pictures, Robert Downey Jr, Wired.com. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Making that significant leap from dressing up Fridays to full-blown fan built replica, Anthony Le’s War Machine suit is a sight to behold. Wired and Geektyrant have lots more photographs of this incredible costume, so do head over there in just a minute. Anthony Le built his War Machine (based on Don Cheadle’s outfit in Iron Man 2) from high-impact urethane held…

© 2010 Chris Laverty. All rights reserved. 21 Jul ’10 Filed under News. Tagged Anthony Le, Comic Con, Don Cheadle, fan costume, Geektyrant, Iron Man 2, Kristin M. Burke, Marvel, Mary Zophres, Paramount Pictures, Robert Downey Jr, Wired.com. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Making that significant leap from dressing up Fridays to full-blown fan built replica, Anthony Le’s War Machine suit is a sight to behold. Wired and Geektyrant have lots more photographs of this incredible costume, so do head over there in just a minute. Anthony Le built his War Machine (based on Don Cheadle’s outfit in Iron Man 2) from high-impact urethane held…

© 2009, Clothes on Film For what is certainly the best remembered costume in Saturday Night Fever (1977), John Travolta as Tony Manero wears a brilliant white 3-piece suit to dazzle the disco dance floor. His look defined an era: smart, yet somehow scruffy; classy yet somehow cheap. To keep costs down the film’s director John Badham insisted costume designer Patrizia von Brandenstein procure all outfits off the peg and not make them from scratch. Furthermore this added to realism as Tony could never have afforded bespoke. Interestingly despite the pristine first appearance of Tony’s suit it never really looks clean. Just like the disco scene itself his costume is…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 20 Jun ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1837-1919, News. Tagged cravat, frock coat, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, lounge suit, Robert Downey Jr, stiff collar, Victorian. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Not sure if these new posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes are Photoshopped portraits or paintings, but either way they give further insight into the costume style adopted by the movie, which is proving unusual to say the least. See them HERE. Ritchie has been adamant for a while now that Holmes would not wear a deerstalker cap or MacFarlane coat, so no surprises there. Watson however is a bit…

© 2010 Ben McCarthy. All rights reserved. Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska Directed by: Tim Burton When it was first announced that Tim Burton planned to direct the latest adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, most moviegoers were rejoicing as it seemed to be a match made in heaven. Burton’s gothic outlook would likely be used to great effect, knowing too that he would inevitably bring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter into the mix. Indeed what we expected with Burton’s version is what we’ve got. Though this is actually the main problem. The story focuses on 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) who is faced with…

© 2010 Chris Laverty. All rights reserved. 14 Dec ’10 Filed under News. Tagged 18th century, Barbossa, Blackbeard, buckle shoes, Disney, Geoffrey Rush, greatcoat, Jack Sparrow, Jerry Bruckheimer, Johnny Depp, Kevin McNally, linen, On Stranger Tides, Penélope Cruz, Penny Rose, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rob Marshall, sleeves, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, three corner hat. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Here it is then, the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Join Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as he hunts for the legendary Fountain of Youth, clashing with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) and formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane). There…