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Andrew Girdwood Articles

Continuing the Andrew Girdwood archive (Page 1583). This section features historical reporting and reviews.

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Short film: Fritz Lang – Chapelier Fou

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This animated short terms melancholy into defiance and I rather like that. It shows the struggle not just against the machine but against the folly of pointless ambition too. Created by Bjorn Feldmann in his free time and with the music of Chapelier Fou the project was done entirely in After Effects. Bjorn nods to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, short film

First look: Jamie Foxx as Electro

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One of the superbads in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be Electro. I feel some of his comic book costumes have been a little naff (not that that’s out of place with early designs) but that can’t be said for Jamie Foxx in this poster. What an incredible look! What do you think? Looking forward […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Andrew Garfield, Electro, Jamie Foxx, posters, spider-man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Jeff Bridges and a host of monsters in The Seventh Son trailer

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Legendary Pictures movie The Seventh Son is due out early 2014. It strs Jeff Brdiges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue and Djimon Hounsou. Barnes plays the seventh son of a seventh son caught in the battle between the supernatural and mankind. Bridges is Master Gregory, the last […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: posters, trailers

Wizards without Coats: Your resurrection plan

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine a fantasy campaign in which conditional resurrection was a thing.   < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext >  Look… I am sorry, but being mangled and killed by an umber hulk, just isn’t covered under his resurrection plan! Uh-oh! Bad news about your resurrection plan. Why is that insurance policies typically fail to cover the very […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

Exclusive story and Executioner’s Heart competition

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 22 Comments

George Mann authors the audio scripts for the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sherlock Holmes series. He writes the popular steampunk Newbury & Hobbes mystery series and the latest book in that is The Executioner’s Heart. Just what is Mann’s writing like? He had a challenge from Geek Native – write a Newbury & Hobbes […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, george mann, steampunk, Titan Books

Bored at work: Saucy Star Wars

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bored at work and with a big pile of Whataburgr ketchup packets at hand? Here’s the solution; build yourself your very own AT-AT Walker. It’ll be a challenge and something to photograph yourself beside later. Via Reddit.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: At-At Walkers, food, star wars

EN Publishing’s Zeitgiest AP hardcover storms Kickstarter

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

With a few days on the clock EN Publishing’s Zeitgeist AP Kickstarter project will beat its target by more than $10,000. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/zeitgeist-ap-hardcover-compilation-pathfinder-and/ [Back this Campaign] The project from Russ Morrisey (aka Morrus) and Ryan Nock looks to put together as many of the Zeitgeist: The Gears of Revolution together in a hardback. It’ll be available […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: D&D Next, Dungeon & Dragons, en publishing, fantasy, kickstarters, pathfinder, steampunk

Amazon launch Jet City Comics

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics. An original comic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s story “Meathouse Man,” illustrated by Raya […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics Tagged With: amazon, George R. R. Martin

Are these the Guardians of the Galaxy villains?

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Den of Geek are citing “solid” sources and claiming they know who will be in the film. According to them Benicio del Toro will be playing The Collector, Lee Pace will be Ronan The Accuser and Karen Gillan will play Nebula. The Collector is one of the oldest characters you can encounter in the Marvel […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: guardians of the galaxy, Karen Gillan, thanos

Will Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Universe create a DC Universe?

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’ve seen the Marvel films and know how they all live in the same “Universe.” We had the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents throughout and then the Avengers as the wrap. Will DC manage something similar? Will Superman act the starting movie that creates a world the others live in? If so then attention must turn to Guillermo […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: DC Universe, Guillermo del Toro, justice league dark, Superman, swamp thing, zatanna

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