Tiny risk of spoiler here. Tiny. You have to be someone who doesn’t know how Lord of the Rings ends, doesn’t know The Hobbit and can’t guess at one important scene. Worth watching for the song at the end. No, really. Comment below.
Snowpiercer pictures, concept art and music
Snowpiercer is a forthcoming sci-fi film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige. It’ll be directed by Bong Joon-ho and it’ll be his first English language film but he did the screenplay for The Host and his cast is incredible. There’s Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Alison […]
See to believe: The magic of The Avengers effects
Industrial Light and Magic put together this reel, complete with custom stop motion, to showcase some of the Oscar worthy special effects on The Avengers. If you’ve seen the film you’ll know that this is just a whisker of all the action and drama in the full movie. Little wonder that over 200 artists, engineers […]
More Qualcomm, less GLaDOS in latest Pacific Rim trailer
The latest Pacific Rim trailer comes to us via the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, and the chip maker Qualcomm. Guillermo del Toro, the director, turned up on stage for the tech comnpany to talk shop and show off what processing power can achieve these days. We’ve also been told that although you’ll hear the actual […]
Fan-made Robotech live action trailer
There is no Robotech live action, that I’m aware of, but this juicy fan-made trailer shows you clearly what it might look like. There are certainly plenty of Robotech anime movies. Mankind uses technology claimed from a crashed alien starship to design mecha, transformable mechs, to help fight off not one – but three – […]
Short film: Catzilla
Created by the Polish studio Platige Image, who worked on The Witcher 2 intro, Catzilla is designed to showcase their technical talent while not being boring. It succeeds. How would you describe the music, though? Ready to watch another? Click this teleport link and the site will pick a video at random.
Short film: E.T.A.
A fantastic animation, winning Best Animation Award at BreakPoint 2008 as well as best New Talent at the Aarhus Filmfestival in Denmark on the same year. Modelled and animated by Søren Andersen & Michael la-Cour, directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen and with music by Rasmus Kudahl Kaae Munch, E.T.A. is about Marvin. Marvin has a […]
Short film: Tempo
Directed by Seth Worley, Tempo is a short film that shows the clever filmmaking and visual effects of redgiant.com. Scientists develop a device that can either slow down or speed up time/momentum for objects. Sort of. Discover another video by using this random teleport link.
Short film: The Sphere
By Nicholas Militello and with more information at the site The Sphere Movie this short film was made with a budget of about $13k. The team used a Canon DSLRs, a MacBook Pro and lots of experience. Militello did about 85% of the film’s VFX himself. In the not too distant future, Earth is occupied […]
John Dies at the End — piracy warning
Have you ever seen an anti-piracy message that wasn’t patronising? Try this. I love this approach. Okay; I’d love it more if I could download the movie legally in the UK but at least some geeks can find this on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and other digital hubs.