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| Sunday Oct 29, 2006 | I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning... to Movies by 7layerburrito |
| Friday May 26, 2006 | I'm sure everyone out there knows about
"Star Wars Episode 1.1:
The Phantom Edit":
a re-edit of George Lucas'
heartbreakily
crappy
1999 "Star Wars" trilogy prequel. This labor of love by an (at the time)
anoymous fan removes much of the hated Jar Jar, redubs the aliens
with better (and
less
racist) dialog and,
overall, did what Lucas' millions of dollars could not: make it watchable.
More importantly,
"The Phantom
Edit" was the first so-called fan edit
to make it beyond the tight knit circle of blackmarket dub vendors
at sci-fi conventions.
A more recent, and in hindsight inevitable, re-edit is
"Matrix Dezionized" which
combines the episodes 2 and 3 of the "Matrix" trilogy
in order to
eliminate some fan-hated scenes (most notably the post-apocalyptic
rave) including nearly every mention Zion, and some (but not nearly
enough) of the incoherent, three-bong-hit philosophy of the Warchoski
brothers.
Other, more obscure fanedits, such as
"Star Trek VII: Kirkless Generations",
"27 days later",
"Jailbird"
(an edit of "Con Air")
and, oddly enough,
"13 Going On 30: Extra Flirty"
follow the same pattern:
disliked scenes are removed, dialog is changed (where possible) and
action is tightened.
Perhaps the most obscure, and least watchable, is
"Hannibalized",
a amateur re-edit of Ridley Scott's slasher flick "Hannibal". Claiming
to have "more Hannibal and less Starling", this edit removed all the
scenes that made softened Hannibal Lecter's character, many of the
character building scenes involving Clarice Starling, and re-included
some of Scott's deleted scenes, such as the infamous
steering
wheel licking scene.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 19, 2006 | Rejected Family Learning Channel Cartoon will make you feel as if you are easily amused or at least handle rejection well. to Movies by fool |
| Friday Sep 23, 2005 |
Obsessed fans of late-night humor cornucopia MST3K have
collected
images
of the original posters of the
crappy movies Joel, Mike and the 'bots made fun of. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 9, 2005 | The MPAA would like you to be
outraged,
OUTRAGED
at pirated DVDs, but we just find them
amusing. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 25, 2005 | Today's weather,
as reported by David Lynch. Seriously. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 25, 2005 | If you like the creepy Chris Cunningham videos, you'll love Dominic Hailstone, Lynn Fox, and many other directors over at Colonel Blimp. Check out some of the visuals created for Bjork and this short film called "The Eel". to Movies by 7layerburrito |
| Friday Apr 22, 2005 | More space babes! This time, images taken from films of
women wearing
space suits. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 21, 2005 | The perfect gift for your favorite Godfather fan:
the severed
horse head pillow. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 8, 2005 | Don'tcha hate it when fun, high production-value scifi films have their U.S. release delayed for years while the Trade Federation argue domestic gross points? Rumor has it Saint Peter looks the other way if you bittorrent now, spread positive word-of-mouth about the good stuff, then buy the DVD when it hits US stores. Japan offers the gorgeous Casshern (homepage, trailer, purchase region-free DVD), plus the live-action version of Go Nagai's Cutie Honey, directed by Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame (official site, purchase region-free DVD), and finally the stunning CGI Appleseed (homepage, trailer, purchase region-free DVD). France gives us the live-action/CGI hybrid Immortel (Ad Vitam), written and directed by Enki Bilal and starring Linda Hardy as Jill Bioskop, the insanely hot blue-haired space chick from Bilal's comics La Foire aux immortels and La Femme piège (homepage, trailers, purchase region 2 DVD). Finally, Turkey makes her first-ever respectable scifi flick, G.O.R.A. - A Space Movie (homepage, trailer, mixed reviews, purchase region 2 DVD). And keep an eye out for Hinokio, Japan's upcoming robotic spin on "Pinocchio." to Movies by cricket |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2005 | What product does the film "Pulp Fiction" bring to
mind? That's right:
third-party
Lego minifigs.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Query letters
are letters sent to agents or studios containing
brief
pitches for movie scripts. Ideally, they are short
and follow certain formal rules. In reality, however,
they are
hilarious.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2005 | If you want to know exactly in what movies (and in what
manner) your favorite actresses have died (and whether
they were naked at the time),
the obsessive
and creepy Cinemorgue is just the site for you.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2005 | Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jesus of Nazareth. The Greatest Action Story Ever Told to Movies by faisal |
| Friday Jan 7, 2005 | We
all know
that Han
shot first. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 2004 |
The interesting, and completely obscure, history of
Mexican/Yugoslav
cross-cultural pollination. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 25, 2004 | The commercial and critical success of BMW Films spawned a raft of imitation projects from their competitors, most notable of which is Mercedes-Benz who hired Michael Mann and Benicio Del Toro to film a 'trailer' for the nonexistent film 'Lucky Star' (for inexplicable reasons, the movie files and web presence of Lucky Star have been removed since early 2003, but copies can still be found via google) Encouraged by the enthusiastic response and buzz from the online community, Mercedes continued to bankroll indie-film projects and recently released the haunting and whimsical short film The Porter, starring British actor Max Beesley and Hungarian beauty Anna Maria Cseh. to Movies by pjammer |
| Sunday Nov 14, 2004 | A picture is worth 1000 words. A movie is worth a hell of a lot more than that. to Movies by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday Sep 23, 2004 | CRAZIEST, by Liz Dubelman,
is a funny and haunting
story of games, life, god and the mythical
triple-triple.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 20, 2004 | A great resource of dubious legality,
Classic Movie Scripts houses
dozens of examples of just that, including
Citizen
Kane,
Dr.
Strangelove and many others.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 | Everybody loves Raiders of the Lost Ark, but how many people loved it enough to set themselves on fire? to Movies by yoyology |
| Thursday Jul 8, 2004 | Black people hate me, and
they hate
my glasses. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 31, 2004 | Those wary of the nearly-three hour runtime of Troy can still enjoy a recap of its highlights: Troy in 15 Minutes.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 18, 2004 |
If you don't want to spend a year and a half of your life building a replica of the
Ghostbusters' Proton Pack,
then you can
buy one that
someone else has already made (jumpsuit included).
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 14, 2004 | If you've not only wondered in which movies Gilbert
Gottfried's (or Lorne
Greene's, or John
Malkovich's, or Tom
Waits', or Cher's, or
Jennifer Leigh Johnson's,
or Katie Holmes', or
Sigourney Weaver's,
or Sheryl Lee's, or even
poor Gary Oldman's)
characters died, but also HOW they died, then DeMan's Actors/Actresses
Cinemorgue is for you. to Movies by fatherdan |
| Friday Mar 26, 2004 | First
the controversy
then the
inevitable t-shirt. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 2004 |
The Two Towers in
just ten minutes.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 24, 2004 | Sometimes you just know that a movie is going to suck. So why not write
a review about it before it's even released?
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 12, 2004 | Unlike the overwrought Spielberg/Kubrik robot-themed opus, indie filmmaker Greg Pak's delightfully clever Robot Stories weaves sentimentality without shmaltz, offering compelling drama of birth, love, loss and death through four vignettes. to Movies by pjammer |
| Monday Feb 9, 2004 | "Those idiots! They got it all wrong!"
Whether you care about
guns,
physics,
or just
general fuckups,
there's a
movie nitpicking
site out there for you.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 25, 2003 | In 1973, Disney made a movie called VD Attack Plan. It uses a war metaphor. What really sets it apart is that, in a very forward move for a Disney movie and as a VD awareness movie, it mentions transmission through homosexual intercourse as well as heterosexual intercourse.
to Movies by isosceles |
| Tuesday Oct 7, 2003 | Remember that hearse from that other movie? to Movies by yoyology |
| Monday Oct 6, 2003 | Remember the car from that movie? to Movies by fringehead |
| Wednesday Sep 17, 2003 | With Halloween only a month and a half away, now's the perfect
time to start work on your Ripley (of
ALIENS fame)
costume, complete with
home-made
M41-A pulse rifle
(or you could simply
buy one that
shoots paintballs).
And, if you have $1500 to spare, dress up a friend or loved one as
an
alien
for the complete experience. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 26, 2003 | For fans of the movie
The Ring
(or its Japanese predecessor
Ringu),
comes this little nugget of insanity: a
Flash montage of
Ringu fan art.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 1, 2003 | The Kafka-esque self-recursion of Copyshop executes a feat reminiscent of Michel Gondry's music videos. However, what makes the spectacle more inspiring is that it was accomplished by using a photocopier instead of computer graphics. to Movies by fool |
| Tuesday Jul 1, 2003 | The Matrix in ASCIIvision. to Movies by isosceles |
| Monday Jun 2, 2003 | Film websites often seem obsessed with avoiding "spoilers", facts about the plot that may ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it yet. Moviepoopers doesn't have this problem. to Movies by yoyology |
| Wednesday May 21, 2003 | Sequels, prequels, spinoffs, remakes, adaptations. Can't Hollywood come up with anything original any more? to Movies by yoyology |
| Wednesday May 14, 2003 | Is Abe Vigoda alive or is he dead? Find out. to Movies by isosceles |
| Thursday May 8, 2003 | SuperHappyFun may be a dream
come true for the eclectic film buff. Have you ever wanted to see Skidoo,
Otto Preminger's attempt at an LSD picture, starring Jackie Gleason?
Frighteningly, I've actually seen it in a theater, but that's not the
point. (Sadly, I can't find a decent review on the web - try to find a
copy of Bad Movies We Love by Edward Margulies and Stephen Rebello, or
issue 6 of Shock
Cinema). Most fans of Aki Kaurismaki
have seen his film Leningrad Cowboys Go America. In fact, if you live
outside of Finland, it may be the only film of his you've seen
(although his latest was actually up for an oscar this year
- color me astounded). Few, however, have probably seen the sequel Leningrad Cowboys
Meet Moses. I know I haven't, although I've wanted to. Somewhere in
between we find William Klein's Mister Freedom
and the legendarily bad comic strip adaptation,
Dondi
(Yet another film with no decent web review). Sadly, if you don't know
what you're looking for, the site is a nightmare to navigate. Thank
[insert diety here] for the search box. Still, for some of the oddities
here, it's worth the work.
to Movies by dha |
| Friday May 2, 2003 | Next time you think about connecting actors to Kevin Bacon, think again, because there's at least 1000 actors more fit for the job. to Movies by fotbon |
| Friday Mar 14, 2003 | Contemporary
movie posters can be
stylish,
beautiful,
or even
disturbing
but rarely are these mass-produced broadsheets considered works of art.
However, during the late 80's and early 90's, "movie distribution" in Ghana
meant "a truck with a VCR, a TV and a portable generator", and the
promotional posters these entrepreneurs used were
beautiful
hand-painted canvases.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 12, 2003 | Get off your hodad butt, put on your pendleton and
relive the heydey of
surfing movies
with this giant
collection of
surf movie posters.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 19, 2003 | Finding the Academy Awards too stale? Try the Alternative Movie Awards. to Movies by onigame |
| Tuesday Jan 28, 2003 | Your favorite
ride
is about to be released as a
movie.
Is it just me, or does this usually work the
other
way
around?
Sometimes, even both at the
same
time.
to Movies by enigma |
| Saturday Jan 25, 2003 | The Lord of the Rings... starring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo, Sydney Greenstreet as Gandalf, Marlene Dietrich as Galadriel, Orson Welles as Saruman, and Peter Lorre as Gollum? to Movies by crikey |
| Sunday Jan 12, 2003 | Bullitt, the movie known for a chase where Steve McQueen speeds around San Francisco chasing down hitmen, provides an interesting look at San Francisco in 1968; You can also see how it looks in 1999 and 2002. to Movies by shadow |
| Monday Nov 18, 2002 | Belleville Rendez-vous fuses an interesting variety of styles, some bits of Tim Burton and some bits of Steamboat Willy.
to Movies by fool |
| Monday Nov 4, 2002 | Now there's an IMDB just for cartoons! to Movies by fringehead |
| Sunday Oct 6, 2002 | Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away has now been released in US theaters, to the tune of many rave reviews. Still, it could take a while before we see Americans dress up as the characters, draw spinoff comic books, or recreate the buildings with Lego blocks. to Movies by onigame |
| Friday Sep 20, 2002 | Das Experiment seems a lot like the Stanford Prison Experiment, except in Germany and with techno. to Movies by fool |
| Wednesday Sep 11, 2002 | "I hate Star Trek."
"Well, Star Wars sucks more."
"Yeah, right! Off the top of my head I know of 10 reasons why it's better."
"What?! No way, this fancy writer dude even said Star Trek was better."
"Ok, I was wrong: there are actually
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN reasons why Star Wars is better!"
"Shut up, Star Trek's better."
"I bet the Death Star would kick the Enterprise's ass."
"Well, I know for a fact Mr. Spock could take Darth Vader."
"Come on, at the very least, a stormtrooper would annihilate a redshirt Ensign's ass."
"Well, okay. But, we both still agree that furries suck, right?"
"Yes. Especially if they're hobbits." to Movies by crikey |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | In a transparent attempt to ape the success of its teutonic competitor and their wildly popular BMW Films, Mercedes-Benz hired Michael Mann (director of Heat) to direct the charismatic Benicio Del Toro as the luckiest man alive in Lucky Star. Lucky Star is presented as a movie trailer (though there is no actual movie to speak of) and was first shown in theaters in London along with conventional trailers.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Sunday Aug 11, 2002 | Contrary to what you'd probably think, Hand on a Hard Body doesn't have anything to do with sexual hijinks. It chronicles one of many contests in which the last participant standing and touching a vehicle gets to take it home. Those eager to try their hand at standing for 81-some-odd-hours should beware the professional competition. to Movies by fool |
| Tuesday Aug 6, 2002 | DJ Q-Bert, former member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz (heck, these guys are so good, they made their own mixer) created a concept album by the name of Wave Twisters back in 98, which, among other things, maintained a story line throughout the entire LP. This fantastic record then spawned a unique multimedia project: Wave Twisters, the movie. Reason enough for me to finally buy a DVD player, despite the warnings about watching it too often. to Movies by wheezer |
| Tuesday Jun 18, 2002 | I've noticed that movie studios often put up Web pages for their movies. After the movie has graduated from theatre to video and eventually faded from public consciousness, the Web pages are still up. Maybe the Webmasters forgot. Maybe they want to preserve the moment. to Movies by isosceles |
| Wednesday Jun 5, 2002 | Lance Henriksen: craggy,
gravel-voiced character actor known for eerie,
offbeat roles and...pottery? to Movies by fatherdan |
| Monday May 20, 2002 | Now H.P. Lovecraft's
"The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
has spawned not only a
comic-book
representation
but also a comic-inspired
animated movie.
Maybe you'll see it at the
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
to Movies by voidptr |
| Tuesday May 14, 2002 |
So, if the Spider-Man movie has you drooling like a fanboy about new film adaptations of your favorite Marvel superheroes, you should know that there may be a new big-budget Fantastic Four movie around the bend in the next few years. However, few realize that an older low-budget Fantastic Four movie was made about a decade ago by Roger Corman, but was shelved and still remains officially unreleased. Thankfully, this hidden masterpiece has at least one fan site, a number of reviews, as well as a few purchasable copies floating out there to keep its memory alive.
to Movies by crikey |
| Monday May 6, 2002 | Not only are there female fans of Star Wars, there is even at least one female fan of the Three Stooges. to Movies by tregoweth |
| Monday Apr 29, 2002 | So what Star Wars character would you bang? to Movies by isosceles |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | Forget making pictures of yourself with a lightsaber. Instead make movies of yourself with a lightsaber.
to Movies by brainwave |
| Wednesday Feb 20, 2002 | Y Tu Mama Tambien might just be the best title for a movie in recent memory. It looks like it's got some of the folks from Amores Perros to boot.
to Movies by fool |
| Monday Jan 28, 2002 | It wasn't long ago that you had to read industry publications to see the movie industry's "For Your Consideration" ads touting their movies for certain awards.
Now
that
campaigning
for
awards
has
moved
online,
anyone can pretend they're members of the Academy.
to Movies by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jan 26, 2002 | Roger Ebert has had a fantastic idea: film buffs should record their own commentary tracks
for DVDs. He starts things off
by providing us an abbreviated commentary for
the Criterion Collection DVD of Hitchcock's Notorious. to Movies by crikey |
| Friday Jan 25, 2002 | Today, we can enjoy great anime, but have you ever wondered when who started this style? to Movies by leptirica |
| Friday Jan 18, 2002 | The first rule about Fight Club is, "You do not talk about Fight Club." The second rule about Fight Club is, "You do not talk about Fight Club." to Movies by rich |
| Wednesday Jan 16, 2002 | A full decade before Disney made Snow White,
Lotte Reininger
made the full-length animated film
The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
This movie wasn't
cel animated, but
rather done with
silhouette animation.
Similar to
Balinese shadow puppets,
silhouette animation was
most
popular in the early part of this century, but has sadly fallen out of
favor as cel (and computer) animation have become cheaper to produce.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 9, 2002 | When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was shot dead on December 2, 1999, it was a tragedy that resonated throughout the world. But as time wears on, that tragedy has developed into a mystery for many observers, who see police misconduct and a cover-up where others see an open-and-shut case. This week at the esteemed Slamdance Film Festival, Nothing So Strange follows the efforts of an organized group of these skeptics. to Movies by wheezer |
| Tuesday Jan 8, 2002 | Who the hell is Glenn Shadix, you
say? You just don't know
that you know who Glenn Shadix
is. You probably know him best as Otho Baloofer, Father Ripper, or the Mayor
of Halloweentown, but do you know he was part of bringing Pete
and Ray to the
silver screen? to Movies by fatherdan |
| Thursday Dec 13, 2001 | Film archivist Rick Prelinger has amassed a huge collection of "ephemeral films" -- commercial, educational, and industrial films that were created for a specific use and not really meant to be saved or revisited. Which means that, now, they're hilarious. You may have seen excerpts from them in documentaries, or on Mystery Science Theater 3000, where they sometimes ran before the "feature presentation." Thanks to the Internet Archive, hundreds of these gems are now available online. to Movies by tregoweth |
| Saturday Nov 17, 2001 | As of today, all three trailers for the breathlessly awaited Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones are available for download. Unfortunately Breathing requires that you register to receive electronic junk mail, Mystery requires that you purchase the Phantom Menace DVD ($30), and the large version of Forbidden Love requires that you purchase the full version of QuickTime Pro ($30). Fans who feel that their affection for the series is being exploited to rip them off are simply circumventing the official system and downloading the trailers from the Gnutella file sharing network (usually with free clients like Bearshare for Windows or Mactella for the Macintosh). Gnutella's legality is dubious (and downloading the unlock codes for QuickTime Pro is without question illegal), but it's quicker, easier and cheaper to use than the official Star Wars website, and it sends the Lucasfilm empire a message of... well, rebellion. to Movies by cricket |
| Friday Nov 16, 2001 | Linnea Quigley
is the horror goddess,
whipping
Jamie
Lee Curtis's trashy
ass.
Never forget Vice
Academy. to Movies by lucky |
| Saturday Nov 10, 2001 | Amelie romantically accentuates the muted, sensual aesthetic in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) and the gauche beauty of Delicatessen. The director of the three, Jeunet, has an eye for things which are unusual and unusually pretty. What is most enduring is that his work is surreally earnest.
to Movies by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 | El Espinazo del Diablo or the Devil's Backbone and Donnie Darko look like they will be among the season's better horror flicks.
to Movies by fool |
| Thursday Oct 18, 2001 | Leave it to Hollywood to take a phenomenal book about genius and mental illness and to turn it into something ill and disingunous. to Movies by fool |
| Sunday Oct 14, 2001 | GNN proudly presents Emergency Broadcast Network; makers of old skool gems like Get Up, Get Down and Rock This Base. to Movies by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 3, 2001 | Comicbook magus Alan
Moore wrote From
Hell partly as a reaction to most Jack the Ripper stories, which pay
lip-service to denouncing serial murder while transparently pornographing
it: "The lushness of the bosom, the glint of the knife, the exciting
music..." Alas, to judge by the trailer, the upcoming
From Hell movie is everything
the novel was written to oppose.
to Movies by cricket |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | These are the end times --
a
sequel to The Omega Code is out! to Movies by tregoweth |
| Saturday Sep 15, 2001 | Universal Studio's Josie And The Pussycats features brand logos in nearly every shot. The director's commentary includes a long claim that this isn't product placement, because they didn't receive a penny. Universal has big-money promotion deals with most of the companies featured in the film. The theme of the film is "deceiving and manipulating teenagers is morally wrong." ...inside joke? to Movies by cricket |
| Thursday Aug 16, 2001 | Waking Life, a movie from the people who did Slacker, looks very pretty. The last line in the trailer probably sums it up: wow.
to Movies by fool |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | Richard Burt, professor of
English, believes that
"porned up" versions of
Shakespeare
plays
provide insight into the American pop-cultural psyche.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 6, 2001 | The full title of Star Wars: Episode II has been announced. As a certain Simpsons character might say, "worst title ever!" to Movies by tregoweth |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 | Were you disappointed with the weak third movie in the ALIENS series?
Read
William Gibson's
original script for it, and imagine
what
could have been.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | You've followed the trail. You've seen the movie. Now, courtesy of WiReD, read the story that inspired A.I. to Movies by sylvar |
| Now kneel! Kneel before Zod!
to Movies by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 | If you're anticipating the August release of 'Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back' (the fifth movie in Kevin Smith's New Jersey 'Trilogy') as much as I am, you might want to head down to Red Bank (it's Exit 109), New Jersey for Trooper Clerks -- the story of happens when the sleeper hit of the 1970s meets the sleeper hit of the 1990s. Don't worry -- it promises to be better than this. to Movies by rich |
| Saturday Jun 16, 2001 | Cos, God knows, an anime studio would Never, Rip-off anyone else's work...
to Movies by mpc |
| Years after film critics and anime fans accused Disney of stealing the story from Kimba the White Lion, it looks like Disney has done it again with Atlantis. to Movies by skallas |
| Saturday Jun 9, 2001 | While we're talking about making your own Star Wars movie, be sure to check out the 100% original Duality, made by two guys on just a a couple of Macs.
to Movies by therubal |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | Think the latest Star Wars movie wasn't up to par? Make your own. to Movies by faisal |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | This fall cable subscribers everywhere will be treated to a new television series version of the Neverending Story. Presumably it will consist of totally new stories, if only because the producers would want to milk the cash-cow as long as possible. Meanwhile, fans of the original movie can content themselves with the musings of loyal fans across the globe. to Movies by lampbane |
| Friday Jun 1, 2001 | Star Wreck by Samuli Torssonen is what I would call a truly dedicated Star Trek parody. It started from bad computer animations, then moved to semi-decent 3D stuff and finally to the realm of live action and rather cool 3D stuff, with a full length DVD release expected later this year... to Movies by wwwwolf |
| Sunday May 20, 2001 | Finally! Another Elvira movie! to Movies by tregoweth |
| Friday May 11, 2001 | Like many people, I felt that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a bit lacking in the car chase department. Luckily, BMW saw this void in our culture and presents Ang Lee's latest effort. to Movies by george |
| Wednesday May 2, 2001 | Curiosity is building around
Jeanine Salla's
connections
with the film
A.I.
... and with the mysterious death of
Evan Chan. Some amateur investigators are trying to
unravel the mystery.
to Movies by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2001 | Next-level Lobstermagnet : Monkey vs Robot to Movies by wheezer |
| Saturday Mar 24, 2001 | Jeff Krulik maintains a mind-blowing archive of video material, including his work in public access television, out-of-control fandom, a museum of erotica, and of course his almost-famous collaboration with John Heyn: Heavy Metal Parking Lot and its many sequels. to Movies by fringehead |
| Friday Mar 23, 2001 | In September of 2000, William Gibson traveled from Los Angeles to Vancouver in the back of a camera-equipped limousine, discussing his life, his writing, society, and the future. The result is No Maps for These Territories, which premiered at this year's Slamdance Film Festival. The movie is a must-see for any Gibson fan, so contact your local independent theater and pressure them into screening it. to Movies by kapital |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 2001 | So Alicia finally got booted off the continent and all of the couples stayed together. But the real question is, which Contender will die first? to Movies by lampbane |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2001 | It's a little known fact that the
golden-age actress
Hedy Lamarr
and avante-garde composer
George Antheil
invented
frequency-hopping
spread spectrum radio communications.
In that same vein, did you know that
Cindy Crawford briefly attended
Northwestern University
on a chemical engineering scholarship (before abandoning
that field for a
more lucrative one)?
Not to be left out,
Mayim
Bialik (Blossom, from the
eponymous
sitcom) is doing her PhD in
neuroscience at UCLA.
And finally (for now),
Danica McKellar, who
played Winnie (the narrator's girlfriend) on
"The Wonder Years" graduated summa cum laude from
UCLA with a degree in mathematics.
She's even been published (more than most undergrads can say); her
article appeared in Britain's
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics
and General in 1998.
Incidentally, this makes her one of the few people in the world with both
a finite
Bacon number (2, through
Wally Rose) and
a finite
Erdös number
(4 through Chayes, Roman Kotecky, and David Preiss,
or Chayes, Robin Pemantle, and Svante Janson).
She also offers an online
math advice
column!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 | What happens when
well-meaning rebels
blow up a
large, metal battle station
in low orbit around a
habitable planet?
EWOK HOLOCAUST to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 18, 2001 | Someone once said that asking a
Newspaper
Man to review movies
was like asking
Tiny Tim to review
Beethoven. That said, whether
you agree or disagree with his take on certain movies,
Roger Ebert, the portly,
Non Dead founding host of
At the Movies
writes reviews that usually give me a chuckle.
Check out his acerbic best by
Searching for his
Zero and
one-half star ratings. to Movies by skyhook |
| Tuesday Jan 16, 2001 | CleanFlicks claims to give you "just the good stuff." I would argue that they do just the opposite. to Movies by george |
| Friday Jan 12, 2001 | Let's be grateful that the Vacuum Tube Midget and Mr. Big Transistor Head didn't make the final cut of Tron and that the cut scenes from Dune can be found on the extended version.
to Movies by skallas |
| Saturday Jan 6, 2001 | If you prefer the dark and pessimistic portrayal of Post-WWII America found in the film genre called film noir compared to the blissful optimism of most mainstream films of the time, you'll definitely want to check out the film Al Gore can't bring himself to watch: Narrow Margin. to Movies by rich |
| Wednesday Dec 27, 2000 | It's not just old TV shows
that are being turned into movies (often bad ones), but
comics and cartoons. You can keep track of this at C2F. Sadly, the latest word on
the adaptation of Alan
Moore's The
Watchmen is not positive. to Movies by dha |
| Thursday Dec 21, 2000 | Oh, darn, what was that phone number? I remember it was
555-something... to Movies by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 14, 2000 | Put Michelle Yeoh and
Chow Yun-Fat together with director
Ang Lee and you get Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the best movie of 2000.
Reviews: USA Today, NY Times, Time Asia, Salon, People, NY Mag, EW, NY Post, NY Press, a radio interview on NPR, and my own on epionions. Can someone please introduce me to Zhang Ziyi? to Movies by gen |
| Thursday Dec 7, 2000 | The life of the Hollywood production assistant - the glory, the free swag,
the stars,
the cow herding.
to Movies by birgitte |
| Sunday Dec 3, 2000 | Humperdinck or Humperdink? I can't find a definitive resource on the spelling of the character's name, but I did find the script... to Movies by djinn |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | "Quite simply, if you haven't seen this, your life is incomplete." This
quote about The
Curious Dr. Humpp really applies to the whole of the Something Weird video catalog. Something
for everyone (except possibly one's parents): Blaxsploitation trailers,
drive-in theater
intermission films and so much more! Oh, and, of course, pornography.
Frighteningly, they have started releasing DVDs. to Movies by dha |
| Tuesday Oct 17, 2000 | Surprise surprise, the fluid breathing mouse in the sci-fi masterpiece The Abyss was real, not Hollywood trickery. to Movies by skallas |
| Saturday Oct 14, 2000 | What do you get if you mix American Pie and the Phantom Menace? American Jedi. to Movies by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 11, 2000 | A great HTML version of the original program handed out in UK theaters for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its chock full of stunning photos and well written commentary.
to Movies by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 10, 2000 | ifilm.com is a great site for broadband users to view short movies. It can even handle speeds up to 1 megabit per second. Two recent offerings like Freeware, which is a great high-tech CGI short film, and Covert Operatives, which is a great low-tech stop-motion short film, are definitely not to be missed. to Movies by skallas |
| Saturday Oct 7, 2000 | A humorous and detailed look at the missing scenes from the Star Wars trilogy. The obsessive Phantom Menace fan can spend half an hour reading 11 pages of what could have been. Personally I think they should have kept this R2 design and especially this version of Yoda. to Movies by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | Antebios is an original and exciting computer generated sci-fi movie that was surprisingly made on Windows NT 4.0. to Movies by skallas |
| Saturday Sep 30, 2000 | While we're all waiting for Star Wars Episode II - I've managed to find five storyboards for this film. to Movies by kade |
| Friday Sep 29, 2000 | "Animal Farm", written
by
George Orwell
in 1945, is widely considered one of the best political satires
of the 20th century. Did you know, however, that the
1955 animated film based on this book was
edited
(to remove the scene associated with
the line "No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from
pig
to
man, and from man to pig, and from
pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.")
by the virulently anti-communist CIA?
Indeed, the CIA
owned the film rights to this novel,
bought from his widow for the
"price" of
meeting Clark Gable.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 7, 2000 | Movie reviews...from Sanrio character Chococat. Sure, why not... to Movies by tregoweth |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Heard about DivX lately? DivX is a codec that allows for DVD quality video and audio, to be compressed with minor loss to very small sizes, small enough to fit on a CD. Naturally, video pirates are using this technology with DeCSS to release a slew of pirated movies
to Movies by kade |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | Scifi Channel has released two promising trailers for the their upcoming miniseries of Frank Herbert's staggeringly imaginative Dune. Those disappointed by the studio-gutted 1984 David Lynch film might be surprised to learn that Alexandro Jodorowski organized some amazing pre-production before his '70s attempt was scuttled, including Harkonnen visualizations by H.R. Giger (the famous "Giger Chair" was designed to be a "Harkonnen Chair"), costumes by Moebius (Bladerunner, The Abyss, Tron, The Fifth Element), effects by Dan O'Bannon (who later wrote Alien), ships by Chris Foss, music by Pink Floyd and even an appearance by Salvador Dali as Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV! to Movies by cricket |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | The short film 405 is simply billed as, "2 guys, 6 computers, and 3 months of rendering time" and worth the watch. If short films aren't your thing, try sitting through the almost 1 hour parody of The Matrix. to Movies by skallas |
| Finally, movie reviews that I can relate to. to Movies by kade |
| Sunday Aug 13, 2000 | Many of us will remember the old French film The Red Balloon, some of us might have even seen |
