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8 items from 2012
Top 10: Aliens on Earth movies
23 May 2012 12:27 PM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
With Men in Black 3 hitting UK cinemas this week we thought we’d take a look back through cinematic history at some other movies featuring other-worldy beings here on planet earth and compile a Top 10 of the very best.
1) E.T. (1982)
The grand-daddy of aliens on Earth movies, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. is a classic example of the space alien movie in which a meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial and has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.
2) They Live (1988)
If E.T. is an example of a good alien-human meeting then John Carpenter’s They Live is the exact opposite as a drifter, played by wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the fact that aliens have taken over Earth.
3) The Blob (1988)
1988 was a good year for alien invasion movies, »
- Phil
The actor who printed his life on a business card
15 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Thomas F Wilson, who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future movies, has a unique way of dealing with over-curious fans
The internet is awash with an image of a card that actor Thomas F Wilson purportedly carries around with him. Sick of being asked questions about his most famous role – Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future trilogy – he simply hands it out to inquisitive fans and walks away. It's a win-win: they get to discover facts such as "Michael J Fox is nice. I'm not in close contact with him", "I made less money than you'd think" and "I don't talk about the movies much because I'm busy with standup comedy and music performances." In turn, he gets to save his breath. It's an ingenious tactic and, as a way to escape your most notorious role, much less labour intensive than the efforts of other actors. »
- Stuart Heritage
Looking back at Blue Thunder
8 May 2012 6:53 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
John Badham’s high-tech helicopter thriller Blue Thunder rode the crest of a decade obsessed with cool cars and aircraft. Ryan takes a look back…
Back in the 1980s, a company called Sega perfected what it referred to as the Full Body Experience. Less kinky than it sounds, this fusion of Crt television, videogame technology and hydraulic pistons aimed to give amusement arcade visitors a taste of what it might be like to drive a Ferrari Testarossa or motorcycle at breakneck speed or fly a fighter jet through a valley full of enemy aircraft.
For a generation of youths, these machines, with their chunky graphics and even chunkier controls, are the stuff of legend, and the mere mention of their names – Hang On, Out Run, After Burner, Space Harrier, Thunder Blade – is enough to evoke involuntary memories of Proustian proportions.
These half-remembered machines sum up the 80s era of mechanical wish fulfilment. »
Texas Frightmakers: Q&A with Producer Allen Reed
23 April 2012 5:20 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
This month we talk to Texas Frightmaker Allen Reed from Subamerican Productions, a Texas-based pair of filmmakers who have just completed The Merchant, their first feature-length film, which was shot entirely in Texas using local talent. I sat down with Reed to discuss his work as an independent Texas producer of horror films.
Mr. Dark: Can you tell us a little about who you are and what you've done?
Allen Reed: Well, let's see... We are Subamerican Productions, LLC, which basically consists of myself and director Justin Mosley. We are a very indie filmmaking duo that does not fight crime on the side. We've been making short films for 6 or 7 years, but last year we undertook our first big-boy-pants project. It's called The Merchant, a supernatural thriller/horror film set in the late 1800's and filmed in East Texas.
MD: Give us some background on The Merchant. You wrote and »
- Mr. Dark
Disney has Feature Flm Plans for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
18 April 2012 6:42 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Hey kids, brighten up your day! Disney is planning an adaptation of the beloved theme park attraction Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, joining the ranks of other park rides headed for the big screen (Pirates of the Caribbean, the Matterhorn, the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion, and the Magic Kingdom). As you might know the [...]
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- Nick Martin
The top 50 robots and AI computers in the movies
12 April 2012 3:01 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
They can be clanking or lithe, as big as a planet or as small as a puppy. Here’s our list of cinema's 50 finest robots and AI computers…
Who doesn’t love robots? Our metal friends have long been a source of inspiration, wonder and fear for filmmakers and audiences. A way to examine our own humanity, and view emotions – or lack of them – from a new perspective, artificial intelligence has been in films for almost as long as we’ve been making them. We seem drawn to them, more often that not casting them as our creations gone rogue and seeking to rise up against us, but sometimes as tragic figures wanting to be more like us. Either way, they’re fascinating, and pretty damn cool.
50. Sonny – I, Robot
Brought to artificial life by the brilliant Alan Tudyk, Sonny is the robot at the heart of the Will Smith blockbuster, »
Ilm's 'Black Friday': the 'Return Of The Jedi' footage you'll never see
5 April 2012 11:29 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
During our latest podcast, in which we chat to George Lucas's official Star Wars chronicler Jon Rinzler about 2013's 'The Making Of Return Of The Jedi' book release (among many other things), the subject of 'Black Friday at Ilm' came up - and I can't say I had ever heard anything about this before.
Return Of The Jedi represented the absolute apex of achievement in photochemical visual effects technology - even for years after its release. Early CGI outings in 1982 such as Disney's Tron, and Ilm's own 'Genesis Effect' footage in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan were to lead on to interesting CGI curiosities such as The Last Starfighter (1984) and Flight Of The Navigator (1986); but the digital revolution that was to clear its throat in James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) and then roar to an astounded world in Jurassic Park (1993)...all that was years away. »
Looking back at D.A.R.Y.L.
30 March 2012 6:55 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
A military cyborg boy goes on the run in the 80s family sci-fi, D.A.R.Y.L. Ryan takes a look back at a decent movie with a misleading poster...
Ah, D.A.R.Y.L. One of the less commonly discussed family movies of the 80s, but one firmly lodged in my mind, largely because of its poster and subsequent videotape cover. Depicting a small boy at the helm of an Sr-71 Blackbird (inarguably the coolest aircraft ever designed), it immediately captured my youthful imagination.
Imagine my disappointment, then, when I discovered that D.A.R.Y.L. is not an all-action adventure about a kid hurtling about in a stolen aircraft, but a fairly low-key drama about a cyborg child slowly integrating into normal family life. The aircraft theft only occurs in the final reel, and is mere minutes long - if you thought the aerial action in Firefox came along disappointingly late in the show, as I did, »
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