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Stop stealing stuff dammit…. UPDATED – “concept art mix up”

Saturday, April 21, 2012

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From SFX on Thursday: “We were sent the above poster today, for a new indie Brit flick called Monster Project that has just gone into production, from writer/director John Shackleton (Panic Button). Described as a “cross-genre” film, Monster Project follows six teenagers who undergo a harrowing transformation into monsters, imbued with various abilities and ailments, and are forced [...]

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Spielberg on inspiration

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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One of the most successful film directors and storytellers of our time, Steven Spielberg, ponders the moment that decided what he would do with his life. It doesn’t touch directly on some of our genre favourites of his, but his thoughts on where inspiration comes from and where a dream might push us is quite [...]

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My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo’s lovely but bittersweet My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill (translated into English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon), has been made into a 75-minute animated film, reports Animationsfilme. The story concerns a young boy, Jean, just starting school and in a family with a busy father, absent mother and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Erik De Graaf cartoons Soldaat van Oranje

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Just recently the respected Dutch comics publisher Oog en Blik presented its new prestige project, Filmfanfare, which consists of a collection of short comics by Dutch cartoonists, based on classic Dutch films.  An earlier, similar publication with one-page versions of classic Dutch and Flemish books (Mooi Is Dat, published by De Vliegende Hollander) proved that [...]

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Monsters on the Beach

Monday, April 16, 2012

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CBR’s fine Robot 6 flags up some cracking news: not only is the brilliant Guillermo Del Toro working on a massive monster movie, Pacific Rim (Del Toro! Monsters!), he has BPRD regular Guy Davis is his concept artist for the film. I’ve been a huge fan of Del Toro going right back to his unusual [...]

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Load

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Load is another great wee short animated film from the students in the Animation Workshop in Denmark, created by David R. Christensen, Lasse H.N. Smith, Blake Overgaard, Jeppe Døcker, Kristoffer W. Mikkelsen, Malte Burup Jelshøj and Mark Kjærgaard, it deals with a man drowning and lost in overwork and responsibilities losing sight of actually living [...]

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Hugo nominations & BSFA Winners

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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The shortlist nominees for the prestigious science fiction and fantasy Hugo Awards have been announced, taking in novels, short stories, film, television and comics tales from the SF&F genre. Let’s have a look at the main longform prose contenders, which includes China Miéville’s fascinating Embassytown and Mira Grant’s excellent Deadline: Best Novel Among Others by [...]

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The Moro Studios remembered

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Until the 6th of May, the Sala El Águila exhibition hall in Madrid, Spain, is putting on an exhibition about the legendary Moro studios.  Dubbed The Announcement of Modernity, the show illustrates the groundbraking genius of Jose Luis Moro who from the 1940′s until the 1970′s, together with his brother Santiago, pioneered modern animation in Spain, [...]

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Lego Captain America splatterfest

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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This Lego Captain America animation that our own James pointed me towards is filled to the brim with lashings of the old ultra-violence and downright splatter. And like most splatter it is very funny in that OTT grand guignol kind of way:

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DreamGiver

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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DreamGiver by Tyler Carter is a gorgeous short animation, as the titular dream giving elf cracks open dreamstuff eggs in a room full of slumbering children. All is well as one has ballerinas in her dreams, another an astronaut, but then one of the children moves in his sleep knocking over the pile of as [...]

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Win The Revenant DVDs

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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Award-winning horror-action flick with a sense of humour (okay, a sick sense of humour, but that’s how we like it!) writer-director Kerry Prior’s The Revenant is out on DVD and Blu Ray on April 2nd. When soldier Bart is killed in Iraq only to wake up and find himself a Revenant, returned from the dead [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man panel at Wonder Con

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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SeanXLong has video up from the Amazing Spider-Man movie panel at the 2012 Wonder Con:

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How to Build a Time Machine

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Indy film-maker Jay Cheel and his crew are raising funds via Ignite for their new project, science fiction meets documentary flick How To Build a Time Machine. I must admit to having a soft spot for time travel stories and this sounds like a different spin on that sub genre, a supposed ‘real’ incident of [...]

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British Animation Awards

Monday, March 19, 2012

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Every two years the BAA – British Animation Awards – comes around; we’ve already mentioned the 2012 nominees on here before but I’m afraid I missed the actual ceremony announcing the winners at the end of last week. One of the nice things I have liked about the previous BAA shortlists has been the fact [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Another week and it is time for Alex Fitch to update us on some of the latest comics and film related shows he’s involved with; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more information and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Tim Sale – painting Batman and other Heroes, Resonance FM at [...]

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