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New TRON Image! Tron the Arcade Game
Disney keeps rolling out images from the new TRON via facebook. The new one gives us our first glimpse of Tron, the arcade game, in Flynn’s Arcade. Fun stuff – getting more excited by the day!
(Video) James Cameron, Annoyed: Hollywood Doesn’t Get Avatar’s Success
James Cameron – the guy who is so committed to his art that he almost died making The Abyss – seems more than a little miffed at Hollywood. Or maybe just annoyed. Or baffled? (Check out our full Cameron interview from December)
Our colleagues at TIME sat down with the director to talk about Avatar, on the eve of the Oscars. They …
Panel of the Week 3/3/10
Today in Panel of the Week we face down the devil with Thor, we crack wise in a green fedora, and we crash through the jungle with our robotic stomping feet. After that it’s time for murders and executions followed by a visit with the karate choppingest magician around.
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Oh, Thor. Have you ever seen a more ‘just …
Retro Meets Mobile With Moshi Moshi Handsets
You’ll either love them or you won’t; there can be no middle ground. The $60 Moshi Moshi retro telephone handsets plug into your cell phone for slightly less cumbersome conversations and give your workspace a splash of nostalgic style, courtesy of French designer David Turpin.
Moshi Moshi Collection [NativeUnion.com]
Want more …
Alice in Wonderland, Now Streaming! (The 1903 Edition)
Tim Burton takes his crack at Alice in Wonderland, starting tomorrow at theaters nationwide (read our spoiler-free review here), but in searching around the web for background information on his production, I stumbled upon this absolutely amazing short film – the very first Alice in Wonderland ever filmed, I believe, which hails from …
Star Wars, the Photo Exhibit: The Droids Do Dubai
Has there ever been a movie franchise as manipulated, appropriated or extrapolated as Star Wars? The spin-offs and spoofs seem to come by the hour now.
Yet some fans are still coming up with incredible, ingenious ways to pay tribute to their favorite films. The latest case in point: Photographer Cedric Delsaux who took an uber-realist …
Artist Tavis Coburn’s Vintage Film Posters For Year’s Top Films
Artist Tavis Coburn created these really beautiful vintage posters for the films vying for the top honors of this year’s BAFTA awards.
As we countdown to Sunday’s Oscars, I thought it would be prudent to post them, especially as Avatar contends for Best Picture.
So what say you? Avatar or Hurt Locker?
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Alice in Wonderland Review: Burton’s Finally Having Fun Again (B+)
This review is mostly spoiler-free. I was less interested in analyzing the fine points of the Alice mythology than in talking about how this fantasy fits into the larger arc of Tim Burton’s career.
Was it Planet of the Apes?
Is that when Tim Burton started seeming derivative to me? The director who had long ago found the glory in …
Tron Trailer: Your Reason To Get To Alice On Time
If you’re planning on seeing Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland this weekend, don’t be late.
The trailer for the upcoming Tron: Legacy will make its official debut during previews for Alice this Friday, March 5, and after all of Disney’s marketing ballyhoo I’d expect this is something any Tron fanboy won’t want to miss. (Hopefully, this …
New Portal Stuff; New Halo Reach Trailer; Yay
There are signs of life from Aperture Science. Valve released on update for its incredibly compelling puzzle game Portal yesterday. This has set off a mad scramble through one of those weird augmented-reality scavenger hunts, starting with radios in the game releasing screechy audio transmissions, which were decodable into a series of …
Christmas In March: Mega Shark From Santa, Giant Octopus From Us
If you don’t live in sunny Los Angeles or New Mexico, then you’re probably feeling a lot like we are: Sick of the drab gray of winter, annoyed with the weather (today we’re supposedly getting inundated with a slushy mess in NYC).
But never fear, loyal Techland viewer, this is your lucky day. It’s Christmas in March. And we’ve …