Tag Archive | "movies"

From our continental correspondent: second Largo Winch film announced for 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

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The French comics blog BD Gest points us towards the trailer (or bande-annonce, as the French say) of the new Largo Winch movie, which is to be released on February 16th, 2011.  As was the case with the first movie (and the desastrous TV series bevore that), this film is based on the comics series [...]

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Science fiction locations

Monday, December 27, 2010

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Trazzler on Salon.com has a cool slideshow up of a selection of real world locations that have featured in science fiction films, from Tattooine to Vulcan to the Earth of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (link via IO9) (the iconic Devils Tower in Wyoming, seen in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, pic [...]

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“Don’t call me Shirely”: Leslie Nielsen, RIP

Monday, November 29, 2010

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Sad to hear of the passing of Leslie Nielsen passing away. Originally a serious actor in dramatic roles he underwent something of a mid-career change after the huge success of the comedy Airplane! and the Police Squad TV spoof series which birthed the Naked Gun movies, all still comedy gold even after endless repeat viewing. [...]

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Enter the Dragon

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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Today would have been the 70th birthday of the great Bruce Lee. I had a poster with the iconic Enter the Dragon image on it on my wall as a kid in the 70s and still have a tremendous soft spot for Bruce Lee all these years later. It’s nice to know that although he [...]

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Blisterin’ blue barnacles!

Monday, November 1, 2010

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Empire has a pic of Captain Haddock from the forthoming Jackson-Spielberg Tintin movie! (thanks to Gerry Alanguilan for the link)

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Villemolle 81 out on DVD

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Full disclosure : I am a huge fan of the French publisher Les Requins Marteaux, and expecially of the books of one of their star cartoonists, Winshluss.  I am in awe of their ability to combine the grossest and most obnoxious subject matter with an absolute obsession with artistic and production quality.  Winschluss’s Pinocchio, in [...]

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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Blade Runner is one of my all-time personal top ten favourite films; as well as being a remarkable film, based on the work of one of our most remarkable writers, it’s gone on to embed itself in popular culture as an amazingly influential piece of cinema, not least for it’s lavish visual splendour (even if [...]

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Scott Pilgrim trailer – comics style!

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Now this I like! Mr Blonde2010 reworked the film trailer for Scott Pilgrim using panels from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original comics instead of the footage -- the result is cooler than a liquid nitrogen milk shake. (thanks to Chris Marshall for the heads-up):

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Monsters on the Mexican border, comics vigilantes in York, lonesome cowboys in the West and George Lucas

Friday, July 2, 2010

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After reporting on Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist earlier this week, here’s a round-up of some of the other genre-related, geek-friendly footage I managed to cram into my annual bash at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (it wasn’t all poncing around in a beret watching black and white films about human tragedy from Hungary, you know), [...]

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Batman: City of Scars

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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City of Scars is Aaron Schoenke’s fan-made Batman film, shot for only $27, 000. As Kevin Melrose notes it may not be the most original storyline (the Joker escapes Arkham, Batman must hunt him) but it looks quite remarkable given the miniscule budget. City of Scars joins a growing trend for some very professional looking [...]

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Star Wars 1950

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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What if the Empire Strikes Back had been made in the glorious era of 1950s Sci-Fi?(via Resident Clubber’s Twitter)

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I am Iron Chef…

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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I love this short spoof trailer for Iron Chef, affectionately taking the mickey out of the Iron Man movie trailer, but with added sprinkles: Iron Chef – Iron Man Trailer Parody from Kohrs Films on Vimeo.

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Win limited edition Robin Hood posters

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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With Ridley Scott’s new Robin Hood about to open in cinemas across the UK this weekend NBC Universal have arranged for us to give away an exclusive framed movie poster, limited to only 250 worldwide. Head over to our webstore and enter your name and email address to be in with a chance of winning [...]

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Jonah Hex movie trailer

Friday, April 30, 2010

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The new trailer for the Jimmy Hayward-directed film starring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender and Michael Shannon.

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Annie Awards webcast online

Friday, April 23, 2010

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Cartoon Brew reports that the Asifa-Hollywood team have now posted up video of the whole of the Annie animation awards presentation (which took place in February) online, the first time they’ve made the entire presentation available like this for everyone to watch (so kudos to them for sharing it with everyone).Guest and presenters included the [...]

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