What if The Matrix was filmed with Charlie Chaplin?

This simply amazing homage to both Charlie Chaplin and The Matrix is a brilliant piece of work by a Russian actor’s group called “Bolshaya Raznitsa” (The Big Difference). Best part? Multiple Agent Smiths! [Link: The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short, via Boing Boing]

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Prince of Persia movie: I was there before Jake

Spot the likeness….this is a pic of me at my brother’s fancy dress up birthday party back in 2007. I don’t have a better pic lying around, unfortunately. For comparison, below, is the poster of the new Prince of Persia movie. Whaddayathink? Did I predict the new movie? Anyhow…I’m looking forward to seeing this movie [...]

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Think of religion as a movie…

I’m not sure which message board this came out of, but it’s pretty dang funny. I lol’d. A lot. If you can’t read it, it says: No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. The [...]

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Today’s surprising movie trailer set in Johannesburg

I’m betting you won’t even see the end of this trailer coming… District 9 is a movie by Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp coming out “Summer 2009″. Have movie studios not figured out that the concept of “Summer” is just a teensy weensy tiny winy itsy bitsy sqeemy weemy tiny little bit subjective depending on [...]

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Prince of Persia movie: photo update

I have two things to say about the new pics of Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince. One: seems that, true to the game, the Prince seems to have a tendancy to lose clothing, and Two: Is that a codpiece?? I suppose this is a more a question for the ladies than the guys: yea or [...]

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Prince of Persia movie: Ben Kingsley update

Joystiq game blog has an update on the Prince of Persia movie that we’re all dreading looking forward to. Specifically, the update is a picture of Ben Kingsley, whose last memorable role was as Gandhi (in fact, Ben, born Krishna Bhanji, has Indian blood in him, so it’s surprise that he’s not hit Bollywood yet). [...]

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Videodrome

Movie for Saturday night: Videodrome128154 This is, supposedly, the first movie (1983) to use the idea of television waves as a means to control peeps – voodoo via VHS – and in the process, man becomes machine. I think the most recent movie of a similar nature is Ringu/The Ring. I like how the movie [...]

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Real world fears behind movie monsters

Cracked.com has an interesting post about the real fears that movie monsters embody, and it’s a fascinating look into an idea that what scares us isn’t what’s on the screen. I disagree with some of it, of course, because the nature of fear in movies is that we identify with the characters on the screen, [...]

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New He-Man movie to be a “Batman Begins” reboot

So apparently there are plans in the mill to get another He-Man movie going, and if you spent as much childhood time as I did watching it, it initially sounds like a good thing. The problem is, we’ve been disappointed before, and not just with a bad He-Man movie, but other such conversions from treasured [...]

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First pics of the new Prince of Persia movie

It’s the classic “want it to succeed but afraid of being so disappointed” feeling again. I was excited when they announced a movie based on the Prince of Persia game franchise (my favorite is still Sands of Time–it’s so much better than what came after). I was disappointed at hearing that Jake Gyllenhaal was cast [...]

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