Alt Text: Six Robot Movies ? Without the Robots
We can all agree that robots are indispensable. Without them, we’d have to assemble our own cars, vacuum our own floors, and adopt actual living dogs as pets.
We can all agree that robots are indispensable. Without them, we’d have to assemble our own cars, vacuum our own floors, and adopt actual living dogs as pets.
If you never got addicted to Battlestar Galactica, here’s your chance: Wired is giving away a complete Blu-ray box set of the rebooted sci-fi show and its prequel Blood & Chrome .
To mark the release of Robot & Frank on DVD, we’re giving away a copy of the film along with a programmable robot!
Critics consistently make hay out of pointing out the flaws in movies – but very rarely do the flicks themselves talk about how much they sucked.
And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great ( Zero Dark Thirty ), some weird ( Holy Motors ), some are for your parents ( Lincoln ), and some are just plain sadistic ( Les Misérables ). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies— The Master , Argo , Magic Mike , Looper —there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 enjoyed a blockbuster opening last weekend, but none of the sparkly vampire flicks in the series made the cut when we asked Wired readers to name their favorite movies based on books.
“So bad it’s good.†That’s how people are describing Miami Connection , an unreleased 35-mm action film from 1987 that I recently purchased on eBay for $50, and which is now getting critical raves and a bona fide theatrical release.