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Science Fiction: Expo

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Expo, directed by Joe Sill, is a real find, a beautifully composed and shot short science fiction film of a working mother, toiling on a dangerous Lunar base when she receives the worst news any parent can ever hear, that her ill child has succumbed to the inevitable. The loss is magnified by her huge [...]

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Dork Tower on Brave…

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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On the left, the young non-stereotypical young princess going against tradition, on the right, the hideous Disney Princess version. I hate the whole Disney Princess thing, always did, and worked hard to keep Molly (mostly) away from it when she was younger (we went with Sulley, Mike, Stitch – a far better choice). But this [...]

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Animation: Wolfsong

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Tonika Pantoja’s short animated film Wolfsong is very sad but also rather beautiful: a mother wolf tries to regain her dead cub, now a hunter’s trophy, to sing it to its final sleep, but the hunter follows her… Wolfsong from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

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Art For Art’s Sake: Ray Harryhausen special

Friday, May 10, 2013

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I’m shamelessly borrowing Richard’s regular Art For Art’s Sake column (which appears each weekend) for a special one-off themed around artwork pertaining to the great effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, who we lost this week. Ray’s magical effects, bringing inanimate objects into glorious moving life, from dinosaurs to wondrous creatures from ancient mythology, delighted so many [...]

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Film: the Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke

Friday, May 10, 2013

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We’re always partial to a bit of Steampunk – or in this case, being inter-war years it is more DieselPunk – and this sounds like it could be an interesting project: The Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke. Set in that stylishly elegant 20s/30s period it follows a female British agent under cover as a bad [...]

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Mo Makes Comics

Friday, May 10, 2013

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Zach Lyons has posted up an interesting short film featuring Mo from Mo Makes Comics, discussing her autobiographical journal comics and how she often uses her art to help her deal with life and her emotions: Mo Makes Comics – Temp Sound – Medium Quality Stream from Zach Lyons on Vimeo.

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Film: RIP Ray Harryhausen

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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Sad news today, we’ve lost not only one of the most imaginative creators to work in the fantastic film genres, we’ve lost a man who fired the imagination of so many of us when we were kids and left an indelible impression on our collective sense of wonder – Ray Harryhausen, friend to Sinbad, father [...]

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Film – Batman: 1943

Monday, May 6, 2013

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Loving these pics – many decades before Tim Burton reinvented the Batman as a mega blockbusting film franchise, or the more recent (and superb) cinematic Dark Knight of Christopher Nolan the Batman (and Robin!) took to the silver screen. The year was 1943 and Batman and the Boy Wonder were appearing in one of those [...]

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Film: Hybrids

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Here’s a very well done short science fiction film from Patrick Kalyn and his team – Hybrids slips between scenes of domestic contentment (a mother in a summer dress with her beautiful wee girl in a lovely garden) and a more hard-edged woman (we realise they are the same, tempered by experience) hunting aliens who [...]

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Animation: Cadaver – a bittersweet love story

Monday, April 29, 2013

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Now here is a delightfully odd, slightly macabre yet at the same time charming piece of short animation which I think will appeal to those of you who (like me) have a penchant for Addams Family style or Tim Burton-esque twists of humour with the dark or Gothic. A dead body gifted to science suddenly [...]

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