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Well, it looks like we have a winner for the Treehouse of Horror intros?, this one being a phantasmagorical culmination of all that has gone before.
All the stops have been pulled and you’ll be there for days rewinding and guessing all the filmic and horror references, from Phantom of? the Paradise to Cthulhu.
Joss Whedeon was supposed to be making a Wonder Woman film about 50 million years ago, but he did the Avengers instead.
We can forget about Joss anyway now and enjoy this awesome short-short by Rainfall Films instead. Then someone do the decent thing and commission a feature.
Sure, they may be fantasy languages that exist only in the framework of TV shows and movies, but that doesn’t mean they’re complete hogwash.
American linguist John McWhorter explains how these “conlangs” (constructed languages) have all the complexities of real ones: grammar rules, high volume of words, room for evolution. Which is what makes them so captivating.
The new Star Wars movies are a bit of a bind for fans, as there’s so much potential to fuck things up.
So, JJ, maybe you should watch this video and abide by these 4 rules and hopefully it’ll turn out fine—just fine.
So you’re taking a vacation, you’ve been looking forward to it but you hate flying.
Don’t worry, the inflight movie should take your mind off it, just press play and — oh God, oh dear God no.
You can’t make a movie about giant monsters and giant robots without breaking a few CGI eggs.
In this clip you can see how storytelling studio Mirada created the two-minute prologue of Guillermo del Toro’s robots vs. monsters epic, Pacific Rim.
If you weren’t aware and you’re too lazy to google it and find the meaning on Urban Dictionary, “percussive maintenance” is “The fine art of bludgeoning an electronic device in order to encourage it to work properly.”
It’s something that’s used an awful lot in films and TV shows, as this supercut attests to.
Karl Pilkington, the most reluctant traveller in the world and a man for whom misery is a permanent state, tries his hand at wing-walking.
And it’s safe to say he finds it all a bit terrifying, and makes his thoughts on Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant quite clear indeed.
