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Review: Frankenweenie
Despite its somewhat juvenile-sounding name, this movie is a love affair with classic horror cinema. Take a horror buff along, and they'll be handed treat after treat, with references not so much sprinkled in as delivered by the truckload, completely under the radar of the theoretical younger target audience. -
Huh.
Apparently Perth has urban foxes. At least one, anyway. -
Happy birthday :)
The week has been long, the month has been longer, but there's always a brighter future around the corner.
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Random headlessness
Probably a strange and stray thought, but a cyborg body might work better with a holographic head instead of a physical one, assuming it's not going to be 100% humanoid to start with ( Read more... ) -
Things that annoy me this week
Restaurant/eatery websites, or any commercial premises website for that matter, which doesn't have any information on what time it closes other than "late ( Read more... ) -
Movie: Chronicle
A victim of its own success. The special effects are (mostly) so well done and so integrated into the environment that they completely lack drama, when they're supposed to be the focus of the movie ( Read more... ) -
G1 Sixshot animation model notes
Just going over his brief appearance in G1S4 - his armoured carrier mode appears to have six wheels, with a rear double axle (the actual toy only had four wheels). It'd actually fit his personality and function better, as well as reinforcing the "six" theme. He also looks like his fists are extended (and white) - at least, the projecting smaller ( Read more... ) -
Movies: Hugo, The Secret World of Arrietty, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Hugo
A love letter to early cinema. Wonderful reconstructions and homages to famous clips from the dawn of movie-making. Beautiful story of life and revival. Completely ruined for me by Sacha Baron Cohen as Inspector Gustav, who is an absolute dead ringer - appearance, voice, and very nearly accent - for 'Allo 'Allo's Officer Crabtree.
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Movies: Tintin, The Muppets, Underworld: Awakening, Happy Feet 2, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
TintinLots of material for fans of the series - check all the backgrounds for many many references. Unfortunately, suffers from being a little TOO accurate in the transition from comic panel to motion picture, in that many of the sequences look very much like they are just getting from panel A to panel B to panel C and so on. Also, the hyper- ( Read more... )
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