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Truer words were never spoken.
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The 30 best things on Netflix
Now with added Whedon! Stuff’s newly updated list of the best telly, films and documentaries on Netflix.
5 cinema inventions that were ahead of their time
A fun little piece I wrote on cinema inventions that are making a comeback. Some moreso than others…
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A teaser for Lucid Dreams of Gabriel – a Disney Research short designed to show off new camera tech and post-production techniques. Interesting stuff.
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Six short films to watch in your lunch break
Here’s a thing I wrote a while back: six short films that should eat up your lunch hour nicely.
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Tim Burton’s very strange adaptation of Hansel & Gretel, with an all-Japanese cast. Evidently surprised at what Burton came up with, The Disney Channel aired it once in 1982 and then left it in a drawer for 30 years.
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Mean mothers
I wrote this piece about the meanest mothers in movies for, well, Mother’s Day. So naturally it went live this week. Hooray for punctuality.
25 best space movies
I wrote this exhaustive (and exhausting) list of the 25 best space movies ever for Stuff.tv. Multipass!
Wrote a film for the Sci-Fi London 48-hour Film Challenge. You get a title, a theme, a line of dialogue and a prop that have to be in the film. See if you can spot ‘em!
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Here’s a great behind the scenes shot from the film Mad Max. The photo shows one of the many chase scenes from the film being shot by Director of Photography David Eggby. This sort of thing would probably never be permitted to occur today, what with unions and safety standards and all, but 1970’s Australia was a bit of a wild west when it came to filming. Photo credit goes to Chic Stringer, stills photographer for the film.
I can only imagine what an insurer would say if someone tried this nowadays.
Artificial Intelligence on film
I wrote this very long piece about the four different types of AI in the cinema. It nearly broke me.
The 10 movies you need to see in 2014
Well, assuming you’re a Stuff.tv reader – this list of 10 awesome upcoming movies skews more towards blockbusters than arthouse films about small refinery towns or doppelgängers or whatever. Anyway, I wrote this, go read it.
A Touch of Frost
Another one from the Stuff.tv files – I got to interview Nick Frost for the Blu-ray release of The World’s End, covering everything from fight choreography to whether he’d take a role in Star Wars: Episode VII.
A young Peter Jackson shows off his home-made Steadicam.
Awesome behind the scenes pics from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)
Monsters vs Robots
In which I interview Industrial Light and Magic’s Hal Hickel, whose credits include Pacific Rim, Super 8, Rango and Iron Man, and Mark Spevick, VFX artist on Casino Royale, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Golden Compass.
It's a long shot, but it might just work…
A piece I did on eight of the best long takes in cinema. Including, obviously, Touch of Evil.
Honourable mentions that didn’t make the cut: Oldboy, Serenity, Hard Boiled, Kill Bill vol. 1, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.