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Film News and Musings

Shiny, Let’s Be Bad Guys

“It’s part of the whole ethos of the movie, putting you there on that ship, with those characters. It’s how I’ve always liked to make stories, whether it’s a show like Buffy or a show like Firefly. You take seemingly impossible situations and treat them as real as you can, but also make sure that…

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Is Everything Awesome?!

The nominations for the 2015 Oscars have been announced, and there seems to have been a terrible mistake….

I’ve Got No Strings To Hold Me Down….

Ladies and gentlefolk, the new Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer: The movie arrives May 1st, which is just 107 sleeps from time of writing I am informed. Huzzah!

Welcome To The Bates Motel

“I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing.” – Norman Bates. Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, shot by John L. Russell. In response to the Daily Post challenge: Shadowed.

Iron Jim on Avatar

“It’s fine to say, ‘Hey, we did all this unprecedented stuff’, but you have to be willing to go through the painful steps of creating those things and going from an idea to a prototype to a production-ready toolset in a very, very rapid timeframe.” – James Cameron. Pioneer of visual effects technology, 3D cinematography,…

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2014…The Year Of Groot

2014 saw some truly remarkable characters in film. Be it Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, Mason in Boyhood, Gustave in The Grand Budapest Hotel or Caesar in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, there were some real gems. But my favourite of all….Groot!