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stan winston

Career in Creatures: A Stan Winston Art Retrospective

With the sad news earlier this week that special effects master Stan Winston had died, Hollywood lost one of its master creature-makers. Though Winston's studio did do some digital effects, Winston may have been one of the last great artists of the animatronic. With the help of a huge group of artists, sculptors, mechanical engineers, and even (at one point) the Sociable Robotics Lab at MIT, Winston built everything from a life-sized dinosaur for Jurassic Park to the uncannily realistic teddy bear bot for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He also had a hand in some productions you might not have guessed, like 1970s Wizard of Oz remake The Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson (holy crap I loved that movie when I was a kid). At the time of his death, he was working on James Cameron's upcoming Avatar, and Martin Scorcese's Shutter Island — but despite his association with primo directors, his amazing creations have appeared in more than one cheesy-but-awesome movie, too. Below, we take you on a photographic tour of Winson's career in creatures. More »

7:00 AM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,694 views, 14 comments

Latest by kylo4: What's kind of sad is that just a few days ago I was watching the T3 special features and I came across an interview with him on it and was amazed by his special effects he had done. I didn't more »

alec baldwin

Alec Baldwin Has The Most Commercial Scifi Concept Ever

Alec Baldwin has an idea for the most perfect science fiction show ever: a cross between Falcon Crest, Star Trek and Girls Gone Wild. Alec's show will be called Interplanetary Pie, or The Last Tango On Saturn, he tells the Hollywood Reporter. It's a sex-driven, family drama. Oh Alec you know the way to our hearts, through orgies and space travel. The best part is when he discusses how his characters will manage to land on planets and collect mineral samples, but then decides nobody cares about that. But seriously, why not make this show? It sounds like everything else that came out of the 70s. [Hollywood Reporter]

10:23 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Meredith Woerner
3,024 views, 47 comments

Latest by n/a: I got my rocket... and my suitcase! Mmm, mm! more »

joel silver

What If Every Single Joel Silver Movie Took Place In The Same Universe?

Some movie producers are as identifiable as directors — just think of Jerry Bruckheimer and his splodey-boom school of film-making — and their oeuvre forms a coherent statement. One producer who doesn't get the props he deserves is Joel Silver, who's produced everything from the cheese-plattery Xanadu to the paranoiac Matrix trilogy. Silver's movies all share a certain demented logic — and in fact they fit together so well, they could all take place in one unified Silververse. Here is the history of that shared universe of craziness. More »

4:34 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
9,154 views, 33 comments

Latest by Charlie Jane Anders: @tmp00: Good point! I'm going to fix it now... more »

horrorhead

Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. I wasn't born a horror movie fan, I made myself one through years of careful practice and studious watching. Everybody has an origin story, and mine begins with the pulsing, gooey strands of sludge that enveloped and destroyed every single point-of-view character in the 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was so young that I missed the political allegory about Nixon, and the joke about how Spock plays one of the pod people. I crunched down into the fake velvet movie theater seat, wondering if there was a way to worm out of the narrative but still make it through. My first discovery came then: If I plugged my ears, blocked out the heart-beating soundtrack, I could survive the alien invasion. More »

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11:19 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Annalee Newitz
9,690 views, 50 comments

Latest by Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege: @Signal: To be honest ever since I moved to Seattle a year ago and read World War Z I feel that it is a great place to be. Surrounded by Water and the Cascade and lympic Mountains (hell non more »

battlestar galactica exclusive

Why Battlestar Galactica is the Best Political Drama on TV

This exclusive new preview clip for Battlestar Galactica season 4 reminds us why the science fiction series' violent moral ambiguity has made it the most compelling political drama on TV. Sure the show is about humans fleeing for their lives from cyborgs in space, but it has a realistic, ripped-from-the-headlines urgency that 24 could only dream of. Even the basic BSG premise sounds familiar: Separatists with a burning desire for religious purity have launched a coordinated nuclear attack on our heroes, who are themselves struggling in a mire of corrupt political leadership and a military gone mad with power. It just so happens that the separatists are cyborgs called Cylon and the heroes are from a star system halfway across the galaxy from us. More »

2:15 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Annalee Newitz
16,421 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: I was searching for "BEST Political Drama" and up comes Battlestar Galactica !? I kinda have to laugh because normally that would sound insane. It was not what I was expecting. Hoewver, there is no doubt that Battlestar Galactica (BSG)is one of more »

tori spelling

90210 Meets Cthulhu

Here's photographic and video evidence of what must surely be one of the signs of the approaching apocalypse: Tori Spelling in a Cthulhu movie. Make sure that sinks into your cranium before proceeding further. Yes, the very same Tori Spelling of Beverly Hills 90210 and the Tori & Dean Inn Love reality show strips down and gets her groove on in a wannabe horror film entitled Cthulhu: The Movie, where you never see any monsters. Unless you want to use the term "monster" metaphorically. Which we do. More »

1:30 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,557 views, 35 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @Hoaxe: No. more »