James Bond is turning 50. The impossibly rugged British spy character, created 50 years ago by intelligence-officer-turned-novelist Ian Fleming, has been incarnated by six actors over the past half-century, and massive new box set Bond 50 assembles all 22 Bond films for the first time on Blu-ray. The massive collection, slated to hit stores Sept.
The production designer for ParaNorman talks about his obsession with Lego and how stop motion animation has changed in the last 15 years.
If I start talking about a movie called La guerre des etoiles , or about one of its main characters called “Dark Vador,†busy building a space station called “L’etoile noire†which is later on, for no apparent reason, re-branded “ L’etoile de la mort ,†does it ring a bell?
Today Google celebrates the opening of the first drive-in theater in 1933 in New Jersey with a doodle. It’s a YouTube video, which might be somewhat ironic if you believe that the advances of broadband internet and streaming video are contributing to the demise of movie theaters ..
A new online art project called Idle Screenings chops up Hollywood blockbusters like Avatar and The Dark Knight into a sea of flickering, dreamlike images.
It won’t be quite the same as seeing Michael Bay’s spectacular alien invasion on the big screen, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon should still pack a solid bot punch when it hits home theaters on DVD and Blu-ray.
True, it’s a just a teaser — there’s the two-part-length series pilot, plus another two episodes — but I have to say I enjoyed breaking in my new (and first-ever) HDTV watching Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Next Level , the preview disc from CBS Home Entertainment that is heralding the arrival later this year of the first season of ST:TNG on Blu-ray.