Tag Archive | "film"

Blade Runner updated

Monday, April 11, 2011

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The Blade Runner scene where Deckard uses his home TV/computer system to analyse a replicant’s photograph, updated for the modern computer age (via Live For Film):

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“It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.”

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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It can only be the Millennium Falcon – maybe not as powerful as the USS Enterprise, as unusual looking as a White Star or as dimensionally amazing as a TARDIS, but for my money it is still one of the all-time coolest spacecraft designs in science fiction. Unrealitymag has the blueprints, check them out (link [...]

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Elektra: the Hand and the Devil

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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Elektra: the Hand and the Devil is a pretty good short fan-film featuring two of Marvel’s ill-starred lovers, Elektra and Daredevil. Director Chris R Notarile and actors Kim Santiago, Adam Shorsten and Damien Colletti offer us up a short scenario where Kingpin has ordered both Bullseye and Elektra to take out ole’ Hornhead – the [...]

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Adele Blanc Sec brings her extraordinary adventures to the UK….

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Finally. After first bringing this up in January 2010, it’s very, very pleasing to finally get a UK release date for Luc Besson’s adaptation of Jacque Tardi’s brilliant graphic novel: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec. It will be at a cinema near you from April 22nd. Although if you can get to Institut Francais [...]

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A brief history of title design

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Not specifically comics or sci-fi (although there are a lot of genre entries included here, from King Kong to Superman to Soylent Green to Scott Pilgrim), but I thought a lot of you would get a kick out of this fab short video montage by Ian Albinson and friends, Art of the Title (and besides, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – New Smurfs Failer…

Friday, March 18, 2011

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OK, so this year, two prime Belgian comics will be getting a 3D animation treatment.  When it comes to the Tintin movie, all visuals are closely guarded, and only released one tiny little bit at a time.  With the Smurfs, the producers are a little more daring : after a first teaser, which hardly featured [...]

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Filmish 3 – technology and techno fear

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Filmish #3: Technology and Technophobia Edward Ross, self published Regular readers will know that I’m a bit of a cinephile and so it is no surprise that when Edward Ross started his Filmish series, combining film studies with comics, I was rather pleased to see two of my favourite things coming together. The brand new [...]

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Ad Astra

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Ad Astra is an utterly charming, bittersweet short animation from L. Ash, created from hand-made ink drawings and Photoshop; I think the result is rather lovely and moving (you should also check our her site for some lovely artwork to browse and admire too):

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A Pawful of Dollars

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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It’s the hottestt hiest movie of the year! I’m loving this brilliant short animation, A Pawful of Dollars, which had me laughing out loud, especially with its cast of cuddly toys. Enjoy!

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History of Science Fiction mindmap

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This amazing image isn’t some weird Elder God or hitherto unknown to science creature of the deepest marine abyss – it is a mindmap history of science fiction and it is an astonishing thing to dive into, ranging across myth and philosophy, from ancient written works like Gilgamesh (humanity’s oldest surviving written tale) to more [...]

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Marge Gunderson versus Charlie Sheen

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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With his increasingly erratic (and not drug fuelled at all, no sirree) behaviour, who can sort out Charlie Sheen? Only Marge Gunderson from the Coen Brother’s brilliant Fargo, that’s who, says the wonderful Kate Beaton: (some panels from Hark a Vagrant’s mashup of Charlie Sheen’s trainwreck lifestyle and Fargo’s Marge Gunderson, by and (c) Kate [...]

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Angelheaded hipsters burning: poetry, censorship and animation – Howl

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking [...]

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The Mighty Thor

Sunday, February 20, 2011

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The second trailer is out for the upcoming Thor movie and looks like fun:

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The Future has Already Been Written

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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This is a pretty intriguing – not to mention cool – mashup video by Anthony Discenza which takes three Charlton Heston science fiction films (Planet of the Apes, Solylent Green and The Omega Man) and their portrayal of dystopian futures, and then blends them, flicking between each of the three every 1/10th of a second. [...]

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A man with True Grit

Monday, February 14, 2011

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Apologies, I meant to post a link to this last week and was reminded of it by going to see the (quite brilliant) Coen Brothers movie at the weekend – a free 24 page comic of True Grit by Christian Wildgoose and Jim Campbell that you can read online or download, to go alongside both [...]

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