Trailers are real. I’m just making up a fake storyline based on the images. Nice bridge, but where the heck is everyone? Spock is still reeling from the destruction of his race. Let’s have him take a solo journey through a firey planet and meditate. Kirk and Bones are doing something that probably breaks the
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Patrick Boivin French-Canadian Artist Patrick Boivin created home videos of his kids better than whatever our parents had ever done. He did that by infusing CG with homages to movies we love. I think this should be an open challenge by him to all other artists with kids on how to make a non-boring home
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One of the great surprises of Fantastic Fest this year was the arrival of Andy and Lana Wachowski who brought their new film Cloud Atlas to the festival. The Wachowskis have been known to be media and press shy, and it was refreshing to see them so smart and so full of enthusiasm for their
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With all of the news of child and teen bullying, I do wonder whether Tim Burton was considering racial stereotypes as he put together the stop-motion animated Frankenweenie. I was fortunate enough to attend the world premiere of Frankenweenie at Fantastic Fest, and I have to admit that I was shocked at how poorly the
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Psy is a Korean musician who recently released his sixth album, and his video Gangnam Style on YouTube has now hit 12 Million Views. I probably account for at least fifty of those views. Psy is a talented artist who was formally educated in the US in Boston at BU and the Berkelee School of Music,
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I love the Olympics. I love the opening ceremonies. I love the competition and the drama. Not so much in 2012. It started wrong with the Opening Ceremonies Danny Boyle put together a London 2012 Olympics Ceremony that was a movie with a beautiful soundtrack, a compelling set of stories, and 40,000 extras who
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If the people have spoken, they want Jeremy Lin 1.8 million likes to 1.1 million likes for Carmelo Anthony. Unfortunately this simplified measure of perceived influence is not going to solve the Knicks issues. There are a few good articles which are going through the news of the last few days including this one by
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Kinect Star Wars has been one of my most anticipated titles ever since it was announced. I remember playing the arcade version of Star Wars Trilogy wielding a light saber and slashing Boba Fett across the chest and dooming him to a painful end. Well, so this is what I this we are all expecting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_yY7cDKhOU
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I already posted about the 8-bit Google Maps, so here is the summary from some of the other good pranks from yesterday. On the whole, Google as a company completely won this year’s April fools. xkcd Randall Munroe rocked it last year with the xkcd bash shell, but this year he went with customizations based
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