June 1st, 2007
The real magic of the movies happens inside the powerful computers of digital effects houses today — where the weather, interfering studio suits and the limitations of real-world physics can’t hold up the shoot or ruin million dollar sets.
March 6th, 2014
If Scarlett Johansson was your computer operating system, wouldn’t you fall in love with her? Of course, you don’t really get to roll around in bed with her like the hero Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) in ‘her’ (but then he doesn’t really either, in a scene that’s frankly a bit creepy).
August 1st, 2008
It’s human nature — since time immemorial we’ve attributed human characteristics to everything around us. From the Freudian (so we don’t feel so alone in the universe) to the commercial (Pixar’s box office hauls), the reasons why pop culture is full of human-like intelligence are endless.
December 1st, 2005
In The Last Starfighter (1984), hero Alex Logan has a universal translation device clipped under his collar — as soon as the technician applies it, all the voices around him turn into English.
November 1st, 2006
With a major Australian distributor changing its name to that of the studio owning it, is the line between production and distribution disappearing?
August 31st, 2015
Shots of a Superman outfit looking like a Starlight Express reject (no cape! Electric blue!) and Nicholas Cage sashaying around a London hotel room in a supersuit would break the internet if they surfaced today.