I’ve been dying to get a first glimpse of Gravity ever since the movie was in development and there were all kinds of crazy rumors swirling around it, like it would essentially be a single tracking shot in the vein of that famous scene (original doesn’t appear to be on YT) from his excellent Children [...]
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This is interesting: “Disney has announced that starting Summer of 2015 we will get a new Star Wars film every year until the end of time … or they stop making money, whichever happens first. The plan would be to start with JJ Abrams’ Episode VII and then altnerate between the new trilogy and these [...]
Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, and starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Diego Luna, and William Fichtner. In theaters August 9th. My only thought for this movie is if Blomkamp can again use science fiction as a vehicle to explore more pertinent issues like class-divide and wealth as he did with ‘District 9′ [...]
Huh, so they’re making a third Riddick movie, aptly named ‘Riddick‘? Vin Diesel is back and though this clip is a scant 23-seconds, it seems like the vibe of this movie is closer to the first one and not quite as epic, sci-fi opera as the second. I’ll be interested to see how the character [...]
‘Luke’s Change’, by Graham Putnam, is a perfect parody of Loose Change, one of the most infamous 9/11 conspiracy videos. The attack on the Death Star is such a perfect stand-in for the World Trade Center it’s amazing no one has done this parody before or that it’s taken so long for it to happen. Enjoy. [...]
Kevin Kelly provides some details, but it’s a sci-fi, first person shooter and an MMO. Bungie and Activision have made a huge investment in back-end server technology in order to get a key piece of this puzzle right: Destiny is an always-on, persistent sandbox world, filled with other players. You can ignore these other players, [...]
Wired’s Spencer Ackerman breaks down the failed military tactics of Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire during the Battle of Hoth from ‘Empire Strikes Back’. From a military perspective, Hoth should have been a total debacle for the Rebel Alliance. Overconfident that they can evade Imperial surveillance, they hole up on unforgiving frigid terrain at [...]
Kind of. Terry Jones is directing a film called Absolutely Anything, which is a tale of an asshole aliens who give an earthling the power of God just to see what happens. It’s a CGI/live-action hybrid with John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam voicing the aliens — Eric Idle hasn’t signed on yet, but [...]
Shane Carruth’s followup to Primer is set to be seen next week at Sundance Film Festival and a full-length trailer has been released. That’s great in-and-of itself, but the better news here is that Carruth is going to distribute the film himself. According to AICN: Carruth isn’t waiting around for a big distributor or even [...]
I honestly can’t tell if I’m completely indifferent to this Tom Cruise sci-fi vehicle from director Joseph Kosinski, or if I’m mildly intrigued. It’s safe to say I’ll probably wait until Netflix because there’s nothing here that makes me want to see this in a theater — not even Morgan Freeman cashing a paycheck yet [...]
