The Dark Knight: Why So Serious?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007The new poster for the 2008 Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, looks really good! As you might imagine, the lead villain this time is the Joker. [Via]
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The new poster for the 2008 Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, looks really good! As you might imagine, the lead villain this time is the Joker. [Via]
I’m Making Waffles in The United States of Sparta!
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007I'm entrenched in marking first-year Flash animation projects today, and so have been thinking about creativity in various ways, but without much time to blog. So, I thought I'd share two YouTube clips which have made me laugh this morning, instead. The first clip is 1776... ... which is what ...
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Sunday, July 29th, 2007The US release date for the much anticipated Blade Runner: The Final Cut DVD has been set at 18 December 2007 (I hope the same date will be true for Australia, but I can't find anything to confirm that yet). There are sets from 2 to 5 discs in ...
Five Second Films!
Monday, July 9th, 2007I confess, I'm addicted to short, sharp edits that are representative of whole films. The 'Re-Enacted in 30 seconds with bunnies" series, but I think I've not found a new addiction ... the 5 second film. So far, my absolute favourite is the 2001: A Space Odyssey re-cut: But, I ...
Spider-Man 2.1
Sunday, April 15th, 2007Having dedicated the final chapter of my doctoral thesis to examining the first two Spider-Man films as an exemplar of Artificial Culture, I really had to buy and watch the new Spider-Man 2.1 DVD, despite my constant annoyance at how these just-before-the-sequel extended edition DVD releases tend to disappoint. ...
300: An Online Marketing Hit
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007There's been a lot of talk about 300, which is now, financially at least, the first big blockbuster of 2007. Leaving aside Iran's outrage at the film's depiction of their history, one of the most interesting elements of the film was the clever and canny marketing strategies which found ...
Advertising from the Future - Children of Men
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007I'm giving a couple of lectures this semester in the Ecotexts: Nature/Writing/Technology course which has some great books and films on it. I'm getting to give lectures on Blade Runner and the anime Metropolis, but I've also been exploring links between these and other films on the course, including ...
