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Animation: Exit

18. June 2013

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Exit is a very amusing short animated film from a group of six students at the One Academy in Malaysia: Mike, a grumpy, middle aged office worker descends into the gloomy, seemingly deserted underground car park at the end of the day, but when he tries to pay his ticket at the automated machine he [...]

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Film: new Hobbit trailer

12. June 2013

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There are some new pictures and a short teaser trailer up for the next part of Peter Jackson’s take on Tolkien’s The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug, and they include a glimpse of a rather familiar looking Elf…

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Animation: How to train your robot

12. June 2013

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How To Train Your Robot is a great short science fiction live-action/animation hybrid film from students organised by Platige Image and CD Projekt RED. The robotic boxer is beautifully animated and looks very realistic in the live setting, and despite only being a couple of minutes long there’s a nice little bit of humour in [...]

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Star Trek: Slow Jam

11. June 2013

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Now this put a big smile on my face – Star Trek: Slow Jam is a a Trek parody video delivered rap style, detailing Spock taking some time out for some hot Pon Farr lurve action (thanks to my colleague Lee for the link):

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Review: Star Trek – Countdown to Darkness

7. June 2013

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Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness Roberto Orci, Mike Johnson, David Messina Titan Books/IDW There is a lot to be said about the inhibiting factors of a franchise and how, if certain elements have to be included in every story, it inhibits the writer from being able to tell the story he wants to tell. Some [...]

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Animation: Chicken or the Egg?

7. June 2013

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The old question of what came first, the chicken or the egg, has been a thought-provoking poser for many years, but animators Christine Kim and Elaine Wu from Ringling College of Art and Design give a new spin on it. In their short, funny and sweet animated film we meet a pig who adores eating [...]

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Film: Gothic season at the BFI

6. June 2013

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Our friends at the BFI have let us know about a season of films coming up at the BFI Southbank (and also, we’re told, across the country) which sounds just the thing for many of our readers – Gothic: the Dark Heart of Film. There will be freshly restored archive screenings, DVD launches, new publications, [...]

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Film: posters for latest Miyazaki-san film

3. June 2013

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The wonderful Studio Ghibli has released more artwork for the latest animated film from global treasure Hayao Miyazaki, Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises), in the form of new widescreen posters. The film, which follows Tatsuo Hori, the designer of the famous (or infamous, depending in your point of view) Japanese fighter plane of World War [...]

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Short film: the Enterprise and the Empire…

28. May 2013

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This is a cracking short science fiction movie, presented as found and news footage from the looks of it, taking for its subject matter something geeks have enjoyed normally only in fan fiction (and ins some heated arguments!), Star Trek versus Star Wars. The Enterprise, apparently returning some whales to San Francisco Bay, floats over [...]

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John Barrowman at Phoenix Comicon

28. May 2013

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Fabiola Rodriguez has video of segments of Doctor Who and Torchwood star, the irrepressible John Barrowman’s appearance at the Phoenix Comicon (via Torchwood4fans twitter):

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