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| Friday Jul 13, 2012 | I will never think of Teletubbies the same way again. to Movies by isosceles |
| Sunday May 13, 2012 | A ghost story within a ghost story, a mockumentary within a mockumentary, a Presence within a presence. to Movies by isosceles |
| Friday Mar 30, 2012 | Will we ever see another episode of Mechawhales? Or was this first animation just a fluke? to Movies by isosceles |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2006 | I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning... to Movies by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday May 25, 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 |
| Sunday Apr 24, 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 |
| Wednesday Nov 24, 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 |
| Sunday May 30, 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 |
| Thursday May 13, 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 |
| Sunday Oct 5, 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 |
| Tuesday May 13, 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 |
| Tuesday Feb 18, 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 |
| Saturday Jan 11, 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 |
| Tuesday Sep 10, 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 |
| Monday Jun 17, 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 |
| Sunday May 19, 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 |
| Monday May 13, 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 |
| Sunday May 5, 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 |
| Sunday Apr 28, 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 |
| Sunday Jan 27, 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 |
| Friday Jan 25, 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 |
| Today, we can enjoy great anime, but have you ever wondered when who started this style? to Movies by leptirica |
| Thursday Jan 17, 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 |
| Wednesday Dec 12, 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 |
| Friday Nov 16, 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 |
| Thursday Nov 15, 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 |
| Saturday Oct 13, 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 |
| Friday Sep 14, 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 |
| Saturday Jun 30, 2001 | 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 |
| Friday Jun 15, 2001 | 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 |
| Friday Jun 8, 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 |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Think the latest Star Wars movie wasn't up to par? Make your own. to Movies by faisal |
| 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 |
| Saturday May 19, 2001 | Finally! Another Elvira movie! to Movies by tregoweth |
| Thursday May 10, 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 |
| Tuesday May 1, 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 |
| Thursday Jan 11, 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 |
| Tuesday Dec 26, 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 |
| Wednesday Dec 20, 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 |
| Saturday Dec 2, 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 |
| Sunday Oct 29, 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 |
| Monday Oct 16, 2000 | Surprise surprise, the fluid breathing mouse in the sci-fi masterpiece The Abyss was real, not Hollywood trickery. to Movies by skallas |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | What do you get if you mix American Pie and the Phantom Menace? American Jedi. to Movies by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 10, 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 |
| Monday Oct 9, 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 |
| Friday Sep 29, 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 |
| "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 |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 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 Billy's Balloon
on DVD, but
only a select few will have seen The Revenge of the Red Balloon.
to Movies by enigma |
| Saturday Aug 12, 2000 | Stargeeks is a hilarious and well-produced short film about two Star Wars fanatics on their way to the premier of Phantom Menace. Its worth watching just for the militant trekkie bad guys and the matching Han Solo outfits. to Movies by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 3, 2000 | Only one more year till the Final Fantasy movie comes out. Until then, this is as good as it gets. Look out, Pixar. to Movies by kade |
| Saturday Jul 29, 2000 | David Fincher's Fight Club is the first movie that does more than equal the novel it's based on, supplanting it entirely. Not a single idea is lost in the translation, and we are treated to new wrinkles (homosexual subtext) and juicy visual metaphors (insomniac flashes of Tyler as the only warm color against a sea of cool). And hey, have you noticed Act I is reminiscent of Harold & Maude, Act II of The Chocolate War? And both films star Bud Cort? Which I'm sure is coincidence. I mean, even if I'm too afraid to watch another Cort film rumored to have disquieting similarities to Fight Club's Act III, that wouldn't, you know, reveal a flaw in my comforting self-delusions, right? [nervous laughter] When I asked Tyler about it he made a disparaging remark about my cleverness and artfully changed the subject by punching me in the face. to Movies by cricket |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | The prolific, airheaded, actress Melanie Griffith offers us a rare (ahem) glimpse into her personal world with her very own website. While she seems to have no intention of answering her many critics on the site, she does take the tabloids to task. Anyway, it's kind of sweet, but the design suggests a mind that isn't entirely at ease. Oh yeah, don't forget the recipes. to Movies by borges |
| Friday Jul 21, 2000 | The reviews are in: X-Men is the first well-done superhero movie! Countingdown.com provides some remarkably long downloadable clips of some of the best scenes in the film. You can also see all three trailers and behind-the-scenes clips at the official site. to Movies by cricket |
| Friday Jul 14, 2000 | One of the most beautifully drawn animated movies in years,
The Thief And
The Cobbler, was a labor of love by
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit animator
Richard
Williams.
Way over schedule, the film was yanked away by Warner Brothers
(actually, by their
bond
company) and
butchered
to make it "more mainstream."
The worst offense -- worse than the cut footage or the utterly forgettable
songs -- is the jarring, painfully unfunny voiceover added to the
(silent) character of the thief by
aging ham,
Jonathan Winters.
There may be hope, though. Recently, Williams said that there are plans for a release of his original (albeit incomplete) version on DVD. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| I recently watched the Shaft marathon on TNT. Can ya dig it? If not, check out Pimp Fiction which might be the authorative web source for information on pimping, a scientific study on pimping, or this handy jive translator. Also, find out why conspiracy theorists claim James Cameron rejected Richard Roundtree for the lead in Titanic.
to Movies by rich |
| Saturday Jul 8, 2000 | Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Sliver, Jade, Flashdance... For years Joe Eszterhas has proven the naysayers wrong - you can be the least imaginative screenwriter in Hollywood and also the highest-paid, provided you use the secret formula that all women (all women worth mentioning, anyway) are hot, young, frequently evil and even more frequently naked. (Favorite moment from Basic Instinct, for which Eszterhas was paid $3 million: Sharon Stone's character writes a novel under a pen name to hide her identity, then thoughtfully includes her photo on the back cover.) Burn Hollywood Burn proves Eszterhas can write humor every bit as well as thrillers; the I was an hour in before I realized it was intended to be a comedy. (Also, not enough screen time for the hot young evil naked chick!) to Movies by cricket |
| Friday Jun 9, 2000 | Those of us who grew up in the 80s can't help but notice the visual similarity between upcoming movie Titan A.E. and the laserdisk game Space Ace. It's not your imagination - the prolific Don Bluth was the chief artist of Space Ace as well as director/animator of Titan A.E. Well-respected in animation circles, Bluth holds production credits on dozens of high-powered animation projects including An American Tale and Land Before Time. to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2000 | For all you Lord of the Rings pre-production junkies, the New Zealand news site Scoop has a number of leaked shots, including general hobbit homes, Bag End itself, and the town of Bree. to Movies by elder |
| Sunday May 21, 2000 | Were lightsabres inspired by Far Out Space Nuts? Were Imperial Walkers invented by Ralph McQuarrie while George Lucas was still in high school? Star Wars Origins reveals the little-known forerunners for images and ideas in Star Wars. The most interesting feature may be the chart comparing Joseph Campbell's universal myth with both Star Wars and The Matrix, which suggests a Judeo-Christian bias that flawed Campbell's otherwise brilliant reverse-engineering of mythic structure. to Movies by cricket |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | A nice side-effect of the sudden explosion in short films on the Internet is access to imaginative, watchable science fiction. Christian Volckman's Maaz and Meher Gourjian's Plug are both lyrically reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's moody masterpiece Brazil. Gillian Ashurst's Venus Blue gives us an excuse to watch a stunning blond woman in requisite "space babe" outfit as she spreads the contagion of true happiness. Check out Sci-fi.com's well-done short film section for more treats, including Mark Osborne's brilliant claymation More. to Movies by cricket |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 | The minds at Planet Terror make their entry into the animated fanfic arena with a Matrix/South Park crossover. to Movies by joshua |
| Wednesday May 10, 2000 | The best animé movie or series I've seen in about 3 years
has to be Serial Experiments: Lain. to Movies by peterb |
| When I need to know about a movie, the
IMDB is actually the
second place I look. First is the superb
Movie Review Query Engine.
With it, you can discover that nearly everyone in
the world except Roger Ebert
loved Gladiator. Personally, I
thought it was a pretty lousy movie. to Movies by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 23, 2000 | Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Wall Street Economist Ed Yardeni, and WWF Wrestler Perry Saturn all want to be film critics? to Movies by mpc |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | Dashiell Hammett
is for all intents and purposes the inventor
of the modern hard-boiled detective story. His
prose is sparse, hard, and perfectly terse. Although he was most
well known for The Maltese Falcon, he thought
his best novel was his study of the rough and tumble
world of Baltimore politics, The Glass Key. It
was an epiphany when I discovered that the best
gangster flick ever made, Miller's Crossing, is in
fact "unofficially" based on The Glass Key.
There was also a great 1942 movie version of The Glass Key,
starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Note: Maltin
was wrong. Yojimbo was inspired by a different Hammett novel,
Red Harvest.
to Movies by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 | I recall many people, when I was a child, maligning and pillorying Vanessa Redgrave. Three are, however, other perspectives. The true story is a lot more interesting, and says a lot about how ignorant pigfuckers can effectively spread libel and distort the truth.
to Movies by peterb |
| Friday Apr 7, 2000 | The first Lord of the Rings trailer, in a saveable, rewatchable format. Whee! to Movies by stimpy |
| Monday Apr 3, 2000 | As a certified
(and possibly certifiable, but that's a different story) film
editor, I have some experience with what can go wrong in
post-production. I would not, however, be prepared for most of these horror
stories. to Movies by dha |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Russ Meyer! That fucker! Here's a guy who had stupidly large-breasted beautiful women falling at his feet, begging him to put them in his lousy films. I am so insanely jealous. to Movies by peterb |
| Friday Mar 24, 2000 | Screw the Oscars. This is my kind of movie awards. to Movies by boneyard |
| Thursday Mar 23, 2000 | Hey, fuck Jean-Luc Godard, director of movies that are ponderous, pretentious, and (worst of all) French. Give me the collected works of nonexistent director Alan Smithee any day. to Movies by peterb |
| Wednesday Mar 22, 2000 | Like the rest of you, I hate having to explain what a jump
cut is when discussing Godard.
It is much better to point people with such questions to a glossary
of film terms.
to Movies by dha |
| Friday Mar 17, 2000 | I was at the Hi Mom Film Festival in Chapel Hill and I saw this excellent short film with has unusually good fight scenes, probably because it was produced and directed by a professional stunt man. Also, it has pizza, which may or may not relate to the director's former stint as Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So, if you have the bandwidth, go watch Better Never Than Late. Oh, and ShortBuzz probably has other good independent shorts too, but I haven't gotten the chance to look through them yet. to Movies by keith |
| Friday Feb 25, 2000 | The Golden Raspberry Foundation has produced a film poll I can finally feel for.
to Movies by mpc |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | The whole or splattered tomato icons, the "tomatometer", plus the media predictions and consensus make Rotten Tomatoes something of an indispensable site to any film fan. It's a hub for critics from all over to have witty buzzwords and full reviews posted, for both recent film and videos. There's entertainment news too, though for excessive thoroughness, trailer links, ratings updates, and "food news" Zentertainment is equally indispensable. to Movies by mrradon |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 | Don't get me started. I will say this though, why wasn't American Movie nominated? to Movies by birgitte |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Depending on your point-of-view, Dogme95 is one of the most
exciting or most pretentious new movements in world cinema. Based on strict adherence to
a "Vow of Chastity" which limit story and technical aspects of the film,
the four Danes who founded
Dogme95 in 1995 wish to counter many modern tendencies in film. It's not yet been officially
recognized as a Dogme95 film, but Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy
is generally considered the first American foray into Dogme movies. (However, this won't be
the last, as a recent interview -- which was very possibly faked -- indicates that even
Steven Spielberg might make be making a Dogme95 movie sometime soon). to Movies by crikey |
| Wednesday Feb 2, 2000 | For people without enough time to watch cartoons, there's Reduced Anime.
to Movies by stimpy |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 | Everything you wanted to know about the Coen brothers and their movies here. They've even got scripts! to Movies by stimpy |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | So you liked Sling Blade and you enjoyed Swingers. Now you have to see Swing Blade!
What if you liked Tie-Fighters and that Unsinkable Ship? Then you need to seeTie-Tanic!
to Movies by enigma |
| Atom Films showcases short animation
and film, including those by such greats as
Aardman
Animation and
Bill Plympton.
(Requires free
registration)
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 9, 2000 | With four Star Wars films in existence, not to mention the Special Editions, it may be hard to determine which one is the worst. Fortunately, 50 Reasons "Jedi" Sucks has done much of the necessary critical analysis. to Movies by jacquez |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | If you're wondering what movie to rent tonight,
Losman's list of Disturbing and
Vile movies is a good (or bad) place to start, depending on how
strong your stomach is.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | For an
alces alces like me, next summer will be
heaven! to Movies by moose |
| Ever since I got my DVD player a month ago, I can't resist checking both DVD price search and Incredible DVD on a daily basis. Both sites are bevies of coupons, special deals, and discounts for online stores which have DVDs for sale. Especially great is DVD Price Search's ability to find which online seller has the cheapest price for the DVD you're interested in,
though, frankly, I think Incredible DVD has a better
selection of coupons. to Movies by crikey |
| Monday Dec 27, 1999 | After all the
Star Wars hype I was amazed there wasn't a resurrection of
Hardware Wars.
"You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll kiss three bucks goodbye." to Movies by moose |
| Sunday Dec 26, 1999 | Some people just get annoyed by factual/consistency errors in movies. Others build websites that mock them. to Movies by pjammer |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 | Anyone who watches movies at home should be aware
of
How Film Is Transferred to Video, so they can
understand whether to accept pan-and-scan or go off
looking for widescreen format. (My apologies that
this link doesn't involve naked inanimate objects
in suggestive poses; perhaps degenerate readers
can apply this to adult cinema.) to Movies by tjs |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | After I've built the bombs and exterminated 99% of humanity, I plan (unlike these weirdos) to rebuild civilization around the
two greatest movies of all time. Zardoz, the only
movie to ever feature Sean Connery in a bright orange diaper
and feature Giant Floating Stone Heads dispensing birth control advice. Zardoz, alone, is prince of movies, and in my
new Utopia, the huddled masses will look up from their mud-and-wattle huts to see the giant
floating stone heads flying across the sky chanting THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL, WEATHER IN THE LOW
70'S, CONTINUING UNTIL SUNDAY. Hail Zardoz! Prince Of Movies.
And of course, to keep the masses from revolting, I will base my elite squadron of cyborg death commandos on
the designs pioneered in Infra-Man,
where blond Chinese queens from under the earth beat up on science police in tinfoil suits. Truly, it will be a glorious future!
to Movies by mpc |
| Wednesday Dec 15, 1999 | There's an odd symmetry in seeing Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman in an upcoming movie, but you may want to read the book as well.
to Movies by dnm |
| Godzilla 2000. Godzilla the way it was meant to be. Giant rubber puppet. Fire breath. Overly dramatic incomprehensible Japanese narration. Cheesy plastic toys. No Matthew Broderick. No Orson Welles. Godzilla. to Movies by faisal |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | The Bride Of Frank. It's a movie. And, uh, um, well, it's kind of horror-ish and low budget and strange and, uh, just read this if you want info as I'm not really sure how to describe it. to Movies by keith |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | If you like movies on DVD, you owe it to yourself to check out The Criterion Collection. Royal treatment for great films, exquisite remastering, and usually with plenty of extras.
to Movies by goboro |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Would you be interested in perhaps being John Malkovich? Many of our customers have found him to be a very welcoming and enjoyable vessel. to Movies by jon |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | The most influential (and imitated) cornerstone of fantasy fiction, Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings, is coming to theaters! Shot entirely on location in New Zealand, the filmmakers will produce Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King simultaneously, as though they were all one continuous motion picture production.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | Dogma is the latest movie from
Kevin Smith
(writer/director of
Clerks,
Mallrats, and
Chasing Amy).
Dogma is a religious comedy, that pokes fun at almost everything
Catholics hold dear, but is ultimately pro-faith (Smith is actually a
devout Catholic). Which is why it's ironic that you can read
hate mail
from people who have never seen the movie, probably because their
superiors told them to,
and who are they to question authority?
to Movies by laurel |
| Wednesday Oct 27, 1999 | Lesser known than
Clara
Bow - the "It girl" - is
Louise Brooks, another great
actress from the 20's and 30's. She epitomized the flapper, not
only in
appearance
but in her
defiant,
racy lifestyle as well.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 23, 1999 | The Fight Club website has
two trailers made by Fight Club director David
Fincher.
Unfortunately, 20th Century Fox refused
to air these very bizzare and funny trailers:
one
with Brad Pitt and one
with Ed Norton. For the actual trailer
the studio used, go to the unofficial site.
to Movies by earmouse |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | Film Critic is sometimes brutal, usually honest, happily terse and without distraction - and frequently the first to publish movie reviews (frequently before general public release.) to Movies by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | Incubus is a low-budget horror film from the sixities which features William Shatner and is in Esperanto, with English subtitles. It's also the entirety of the Esperanto film library. to Movies by keith |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | I had access to cable television for five days last week. Every time I surfed past one of the Christian-identitified stations, it seemed I had a 50-50 chance of running into an ad, or preview (RealVideo), or behind-the-scenes promo for The Omega Code. With that kind of media blitz from its producers at the Trinity Broadcast Network, perhaps it's not too suprising that the Revelations- and Bible Code-based sci-fi flick had a #10 weekend opening on Variety's list. (Boffo BO in Oklahoma; the flick's only on 305 screens in the Bible Belt, Midwest, and southern California.)
However, doesn't having an Omega Code website at www.microsoftstore.com qualify as yet another sign of the Apocolypse?
to Movies by penth |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | If
Heliogabolus
only whetted your appetite for insane Roman emperors with terms of power less than that of US presidents, then you may also want to go see the twentieth anniversary rerelease of the movie
Caligula. However, don't take your kids. Even their promotional web site describes it as including "shockingly realistic dramatizations of the sexual orgies and wanton cruelty in the courts of emperors Tiberius and Caligula." Twenty years ago it was very controversial. These days I'm expecting a more ho-hum response. to Movies by keith |
| While there are certain theologically-based movie sites which are easily mocked. The Movie Parables Site is actually an interesting Christian-oriented review site, which considers the balance between visuals, art and morality. Plus, he loved The Matrix, so he can't be all bad. to Movies by mpc |
| Is This Sexy? Your Guide To DTV Erotica follows the proud
tradition of Oh The Humanity in providing guides to movies that nobody else would think about. In this case, the overwrought, overacted, underplotted, Shannon-starring genre of the 'erotic' thriller. to Movies by mpc |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | I know what you think. Well, you're wrong.
The
drive-in movie theater is not dead.
There may even be one
near you. to Movies by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 |
Man On the Moon is a movie about
the life of the bizarre and astonishing
Andy Kaufman. Jim Carrey stars.
The word on the street is that he's really put a lot into getting into character and does a surprisingly good Andy Kaufman. to Movies by keith |
| Forget Harry Knowles. True film lovers turn to Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Confidential for the latest in movie news. to Movies by boneyard |
| Sunday Oct 3, 1999 | OH MY GOD LOOK OUT IT'S A DISASTER AAAA to Movies by crikey |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | Drew Barrymore wants to
remake the Jane Fonda classic
Barbarella
, but without the camp.
What?!? Barbarella without the
furry
cat-suits or the
Mathmos?
Sacrilege!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | Matinee Today is a
beautifully-designed shrine to
the art of
movie
magazines and
posters,
with an extensive tribute to movie siren
Rita
Hayworth. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| We've mentioned odd
film reviewers in the past, here's
one who rewrites
the scripts to get his point across.
to Movies by mpc |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | Wondering what to do with the that script buried in your desk drawer somewhere
beneath your Sallie Mae loan papers and free
aol disks?
Well,
if you aren't worried about indie cred
send it here.
It will cost you, but then look at how much
money
some scripts are going for. If this is the future of Hollywood, it doesn't look good people.
to Movies by birgitte |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | On the border between pathetic fandom and strange humor lies the
Dune Guy Fanpage.
The humor (or is it satire?) comes from the author's apparant confusion of
Klye MacLachlan
and Matthew Perry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Kevin Smith, writer and director of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy,
has a
large web-site,
filled with great information about his past and
upcoming movies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 | Postapocalyptic Elvis inspired swordfest: now with award winning cinematography! to Movies by akk |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Wanna know why I'm so successful at the Hollywood Stock Exchange? It's because I religiously read the Upcoming Movies web site. to Movies by peterb |
| Who let this guy out of therapy to let him overanalyze classic films such as Vertigo and Fellini's 8 1/2? to Movies by peterb |
| Special effects junkie Tim Fox has spent a lot of time trying to make Star Wars and Star Trek like special effects. He's got a tutorial on how to take pictures of yourself using a lightsaber. to Movies by faisal |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Need good reviews of bad movies? Well, go
Stomp Tokyo. to Movies by keith |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | Just because you're blind, that doesn't mean that you can't be
A Movie Critic. to Movies by keith |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | The archive of the infamous net.movies antireviews. Be sure to read the fabulous alternative plot for Return of the Jedi. to Movies by peterb |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | Yahoo! Movies
is a little like
Moviefone (the hell formerly known as
777-FILM) except that it doesn't suck.
Of course, if you're in Pittsburgh, PA, the easiest
thing to use of all is
This Week at Pittsburgh Cinemas.
to Movies by tjs |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | For those who just can't get enough of
Star Wars,
there's always Mos Eisley, host of the Star Wars Encyclopedia, full of intriguing and bizarre names like "Jagged Antilles" and "Gopple".
to Movies by jacquez |
| Monday Jul 19, 1999 | The Warner
Bros. Cartoon Companion explains the obscure historical references
and hidden in-jokes in the classic Warner Bros. cartoons of yore. Finally,
you can learn the origins of the
Tregoweth Brown Building
or the phrase "You bwoke my widdle _____.!" to Movies by tregoweth |
| Friday Jul 16, 1999 | Go see Phantom Pulp Menace Fiction, a part of the wonderfully juvenile material at The Food Court.
to Movies by peterb |
| If Weird Al wasn't already weird enough, ...now he has a Yahoo'esque site to promote himself. This site includes games, merchandise and other weird Al stuff. to Movies by jack |
| Friday Jul 2, 1999 | You definitely have to read the best review of South Park, the movie, thus far. to Movies by peterb |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | Do you want to avoid having the surprise endings of over 100 movies ruined for you? Then, for heaven's safe, don't click here. to Movies by boneyard |
| Sunday Jun 20, 1999 | Thay make what would best be described as B-minus
movies. They're responsible for
Tromeo and Juliet,
Surf Nazis Must Die,
and
The Toxic Avenger.
They are Troma.
to Movies by keith |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | So, I'll be missing YAPC because I'm working on Frameline's 23rd International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. But everybody in Pitttsburgh will at least get to see the Festival Trailer. Like the festival t-shirts, the trailer comes in small (1.2 mb), medium (3.0 mb) , large (13 mb) , and my favorite: Castro clone (3.1 mb). to Movies by penth |
| I'm not sure if it was because of the the sick comedy, the blistering offensiveness, or the sophomoric laughs, but something in my life definitely changed when I discovered B-Fatt and Lazy's Movie Reviews about a year ago. Siskel and Ebert they ain't. Handle with care.
to Movies by succa |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Star Wars freaks have never been known for their stability. But I think the
Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade collects some of the
screwiest together in one place, so the rest of us can avoid them like the plague. to Movies by jacquez |
| Sunday May 30, 1999 | So, this studio executive asks Dan Rosen whether he has any ideas for a film starring the Olsen Twins™. Well, says Dan, how about a remake of M? Too bad his festival hit The Curve (f/k/a Dead Man's Curve) went direct to video.
to Movies by penth |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | If you, like many, felt that The Phantom Menace was ruined by a certain bubbly animated character named Jar Jar Binks, you might want to join the Jar Jar Must Die Society. to Movies by succa |
| Monday May 24, 1999 | You've thrilled to his words of wisdom on such diverse topics as booze
and dump trucks which double as Machines O' Doom. Now check out The Tom Servo Fan Club and
enjoy building your very own Robot Friend. There is a less
neatly-designed site
which however offers a contact for getting hard-to-find parts.
to Movies by sck |
| The Childcare Action Project Analysis Reports
are a collection of Christian movie reviews of current cinema, kind of . Apart from the queer compartmentalism that
normally dominates 'Christian' pop culture, the CAP reports are distinguished by
a well-meaning, if weird
Analysis Methodology,
which among other things, explains how The Basketball
Diaries will turn your children into homicidal zombies.
to Movies by mpc |
| Sunday May 23, 1999 | The
website for those of you who aren't like
this guy. to Movies by crikey |
| All these new films aren't a patch on what Hollywood used to produce, right? Your granny could do better, no doubt. Send her to Plot-o-matic to confirm your fears. to Movies by ned |
| Wednesday May 19, 1999 | There have been several news stories recently
discussing pirated movies on the internet. Somehow
I don't think they meant
this. to Movies by magus |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | Are you a fan of bad science fiction, cheesy alien flicks? For B-film news you can use actually use, go to B Monster, the authoritative guide to cult cinema. to Movies by pjammer |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 | While there's been some controversy surrounding DiCaprio's new film, The Beach, that hasn't deterred hundreds of Thai students from expressing undying love for him. to Movies by rsf |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | Back in '94 some film students disappeared in rural Maryland while filming a documentary on the local folklore, but some of what they shot was recovered and made into a movie called The Blair Witch Project, potentially the most significant movie footage to be reconstructed since Forgotten Silver. to Movies by nyarl |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | Script-o-Rama could very well be the most comprehensive index to online movie scripts (which are usually typed out word-for-word from stop-and-play VCR recordings by wacko fans). to Movies by pjammer |
| Those of us who fell in love Disney's tale of a cub who would be king can now find Quicktime clips of their favorite moments from movie at the Lion King Quicktime Movie Archive.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Apr 27, 1999 | From the "no surprise to anyone" department comes the
light sabre homepage
which includes obsessive speculation on the different
shapes,
colors and
fighting
strategies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 24, 1999 | The name is Bond. James Bond. to Movies by pjammer |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | Following up on my earlier item about anamorphic widescreen versus pan-and-scan,
here's an excellent
tutorial that uses Shockwave Flash to demonstrate the interaction between
a film's source media and your viewing device. to Movies by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Those of us who have already grown up but still watch anime in our 20's may remember a delightful Blade-Runner-esque dystopian science-fiction movie that sent a cyborg woman into a superbly animated ultraviolent world. Like anything that appeals to pupal geeks, Ghost in the Shell has spawned a shitload of fansites, including a weapon-by-weapon review/analysis at Weapons of Ghost in the Shell. to Movies by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Digital movie projectors are on their way. All that remains to be
determined is which technology will triumph: the
CRT-based ILA made
by JVC-Hughes, or Texas Instrument's
MEMS-based projector.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Has Ben Affleck's transition from indie-film auetur
to Hollywood commodity changed him?
Naaaaah.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 | Some people take "Mad Max" way
too seriously. to Movies by peterb |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | Anamorphic widescreen, letterbox, pan-and-scan, 1.66:1, 1.33:1 1.78:1. Confused? So was
I, until I read the article How Film is Transferred
To Video. A must for anyone considering a DVD player. Also, visit the
Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page (which will soon be moving to
www.widescreen.org.
to Movies by peterb |
| It's ironic that, while Roberto Begnini
has received nothing but acclaim for his
film
Life
is Beautiful,
Jerry
Lewis's
The
Day the Clown Cried has never been released
and is generally considered to be one of the nadirs
of American cinema. Filmed in
1972, and featuring an uncannily similar plotline
to Life is Beautiful
with lead actors that have uncannily similar
comedic
styles, one wonders how much longer
it'll be before the film's released and we get to
see if it's actually any good. to Movies by crikey |
| Sunday Mar 21, 1999 | Oscar,
schmoscar -- see who won this year's
Razzies. to Movies by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Mar 16, 1999 | More proof that if you are obsessive you can justify any damn fool theory. See,
James Cameron's Titanic was really an homage to Kubrick's The Shining. Also,
I am Marie of Roumania. to Movies by peterb |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | Bizarre (to say the least) fringe film-maker Joe Christ now publishes his
his newsletter on the web.
No mention is made, unfortunately, of the allegations that he
cut off his own
penis to make the film "Sex, Blood & Mutilation."
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Mar 7, 1999 | Ok, I know it's supposed to promote an upcoming movie, but what the hell is the Matrix? to Movies by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 3, 1999 | A major influence to artists such as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, Czechoslovakian Jan Svankmajer crafts surreal works blending cinema, animation, puppetry, and a twisted imagination. His films can be difficult to track down in America, but are well worth searching for -- his rendition of Alice in Wonderland easily beats any NBC crap, and Faust will leave you with a mortal fear of marionettes.
to Movies by nyarl |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 1999 | BADMOVIES.ORG
is crammed with informative reviews of pathetic films,
but the real treasure here is the huge supply of
sound, image and video clips. to Movies by obvious |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | Screen It! reviews movies for parents, letting them know about anything objectionable they might find and detailing any gratuitous violence, drug use, nudity, or scary music. Me, I use it to figure out which movies have the good bits. to Movies by nyarl |
| Saturday Jan 23, 1999 | I was always dissapointed as a kid that my favorite Japanese movie monster
Gamera never fought Godzilla. But now, there's
strange fan fictionto
come to my rescue. Remember, "Godzilla vs. Gamera" is a trademark of Matt Lutes. I'm
sure neither Daiei Corp., Toho Corp., or Sony have a problem with that. to Movies by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 13, 1999 | In a bold, unexpected turn of events sci-fi fans just refuse to let something old and goofy die, resurrecting the Banzai Institute. to Movies by nyarl |
| Saturday Jan 2, 1999 | Catch up on the latest gossip from
the porn industry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 1, 1999 | The fat guy and
the other one.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 17, 1998 | Screw Star Wars. THIS is a trailer.
to Movies by jason |
| Saturday Nov 14, 1998 | Star Wars Episode I Poster to Movies by faisal |
| Sunday Nov 8, 1998 | David Foster Wallace blames Terminator 2 for inaugurating a new genre of big-budget film: Special Effects Porn. to Movies by joshua |
| Friday Oct 30, 1998 | The Movie Review Query Engine
is one of the most useful sites on the web
for finding out just how good (or bad)
Godzilla (1998) is.
to Movies by tjs |
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