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Low-budget sci-fi turns into a character piece

I’m looking forward to the November premiere of Monsters, a sci-fi film that looks like it will be about the characters more than it is about the special effects. That’s the way the director talks...

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Typo-shaped movie posters

Jerod Gibson makes posters based on movies, posters that take one iconic image — say, a bar of soap — and then fill them with iconic quotes. I like. Besides Fight Club, he’s also done Clerks, The...

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Clowns are always scary. Always.

That’s not true, I like clowns. I actually think what’s scary is in the inversion of simple childhood pleasure. But clowns are an effective way to do that. Now: As one YouTube commenter says, “I don’t...

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My pitch for a great new zombie movie: Set it on a cruise ship

If you are not watching the new AMC series, “The Walking Dead,” you are cheating yourself out of some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. And it’s only two episodes in. I’ve even embedded the AMC stream of...

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Avada Kedavra

What if it had been Disney that had scooped up the Harry Potter property in its infancy?  What would have become of these dark “kids” movies (the latest of which I have not yet seen)? Perhaps something...

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The ‘Inception’ dream sequences in real-time

It’s like the movie itself had some kind of architect.

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Filmography 2010

What happens when you edit together 270 movies from 2010?  I would’ve guessed “an incredibly unwatchable mess.” Not so.  It’s fascinating, enthralling and remarkably cohesive. Now I have to track down...

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The movies of 2010

That, above, is a colour-coded chart of the box office results from every week of last year. It’s one of a dozen or so such charts (in regular and logarithmic form) posted at xach.com. Click here to...

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Short Film Friday: Dark Side of Oz

So it’s not really a short film; deal with it.   It’s something everyone says they’ve done, though I suspect very few actually have:  play Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” synced up to the original...

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A brief history of movie title design

A well-executed main title sequence is one of my real pleasures in watching a movie. Especially on the big screen. What a treat to see so many put together in a meta-sequence, set to that funky music...

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Made-for-TV zombie apocalypse movie. Called “Zombie Apocalypse”.

Ha! Although the special effects don’t quite look as convincing as they could, I think I’m definitely ready for a bit of cheese with my rotting flesh. Plus, how can you say no to a made-for-TV movie...

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Thank you, Saul Bass, for these movie titles

Fantastic work, and I love it. Borrows a little from this previous video, 100 Years of Title Design, but the borrows are essential. (From Art of the Title, via Gizmodo)

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What if ‘The Karate Kid’ had been an amateur production?

I can’t beat the synopsis on MeFi: When they were making The Karate Kid, they decided to shoot each scene’s rehearsal with budget cameras so the actors could watch themselves back afterwards. Now it’s...

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Ideas from Soylent Green: Crowd-control bulldozers

Look at that poster! At least FOUR riot-control bulldozers — with cow-catchers! — in this crazy future world. Didn’t they think we’d invent pepper spray? Man, the far-future world of Soylent Green in...

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Whiplash meets Animal

For those of you who haven’t seen Whiplash yet — why not? It’s well paced, clocking in at just over 100 minutes, beautifully directed and shot, and incredibly well acted — I think Miles Teller is going...

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