While Matt Damon has – on more than one occasion – suggested that he’s not interested in returning to the Bourne film series, it would appear that this week he may be turning a cheek. Reports from Twitch suggest that Damon is in talks with Universal Studios to bring the Bourne character back to the […]
AI had its narrative problems, sure. But it didn’t have a problem with the awesomeness of its practical effects, specifically the awesomeness of this fully kinetic, crippled android puppet. It’s so good that the robo-carnage is almost disturbing.
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Anyone who was a child once upon a time has probably dreamed about making their bicycles fly across the full moon like in E.T. Awesome photographer Philipp Schmidli actually did that. He recreated the iconic E.T. movie poster by snapping an awesome picture of a biker riding off a ramp against the backdrop of a giant moon.
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Bad news, Bond fans. In just over a week’s time, you’re going to have find a new spy friend on Netflix. On September 2, 17 of the spy films will disappear from the site’s streaming video library. No more Goldfinger. No more GoldenEye. No more a lot of things.
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Last night, Star Wars: Episode VII cinematographer Dan Mindel announced that the J.J. Abrams-directed movie will be shot on 35mm film, as opposed to digital video. The decision symbolizes the changing of the guard from the reign of George Lucas, and hopefully adds some much-needed vigor to the beloved franchise.
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All right everyone, time to put on your debating/outrage hats. Empire magazine reached out to some of the top vfx artists around the world and had them choose—and justify—what they believe to be the top visual effects shots of all time.
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In a move that has some groaning and others generating facepalm pictures, Warner Bros. has just announced that Ben Affleck is next in line to play Batman, replacing Christian Bale as the current Dark Knight. Others aren’t being so pessimistic, not the least of which is Warner Bros. President Greg Silverman, who says Affleck “has […]
You can yell, "Beam me up, Scotty!" all you want, the only thing that will happen is you’ll elicit a bunch of bemused stares from passersby wondering if you’ve bonked your head recently. The sad fact is human teleportation devices don’t yet exist in 2013, and even if they did, the tremendous lag would make it extraordinarily impractical. Such is the reality of science that it doesn’t always mesh with our fantastic visions of fictional futures filled with flying cars and other implausible technologies. In other words, reality sucks compared to what we’ve grown up watching on television.
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Check out this frame by frame recreation of the Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug made in Lego stopmotion. According to its creator—the Brotherhood Workshop—it was a painstaking job. I believe it. Here’s the original trailer so you can compare.
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Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
My mom loves to tell the story about the first time I ever saw Star Wars.
“He was 6 years old,” she tells anyone within earshot. “Barely able to see over the seat in front of him, grasping a popcorn in one hand, soda in the other. It was the only time I ever let him drink soda,” she lies to assuage any doubts about her parenting abilities.
“Then the words come up, the ones that disappear into space. And the John Williams music. Joshua’s mouth drops open. He then clutched the popcorn and soda and didn’t touch them for the next two hours. He was lost in another world.”
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