Another “Dune” Poster
Absolutely beautiful work by Nada Maktari 🔥 Here are a few others for the Dune that didn’t get made.…
thirteen things tagged “hollywood movies”
On Nicholas Cage
Yeah, Nic Cage brings the same intensity to almost every role he does. If it’s not a very good role, it’s gonna stand out as being bad. To put it another way, imagine a boxer that is very good at knocking people out. That’s impressive. Now imagine he accepts fights against children as well, and he…
“Each of these images was generated by AI based on a brief text description of a movie. Can you guess the movie from the image?”
Fun little quiz! Did not do as well as I thought I would……
The Ring of Tucci
I love this ring as much as I love Mr. Stanley Tucci. It’s from The Devil Wears Prada and is an aqeeq ring (which “means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish”) which was a pretty common sight on older hands when I was growing up. I looked far and wide for a replica and found this on Etsy1. That p…
“It wasn’t brains that got me here I can assure you of that.”
I cannot help rewatch this powerful scene from “Margin Call”. A masterclass in acting by the great Jeremy Irons. Every sentence, glance, and gesture projects complete and menacing presence, power, and finality, and is done to absolute perfection 👌 /misc/m/margin-call-sell-it-all.mp4…
A Working Monke
Between takes of 2001: A Space Odyssey…
What Do We REALLY Learn?
Via CO. Succinct and appropriate for a gamut of events. /misc/w/what-do-we-learn.mp4…
Fatman (Trailer)
Well this was certainly most unexpected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z64XvPERZ50…
Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck
. I mean yes, Denis Villeneuve and all that. But please don’t suck.…
Lutz Ebersdorf
As if I needed another reason to fall in love with Tilda Swinton Swinton penned a phony IMDb biography to keep the secret, and wore fake genitalia, created by makeup artist Mark Coulier, while in character. (“She did have us make a penis and balls,” Coulier told the paper. “She had this nice, weigh…
Who Is America?
Don’t think I could bear to watch the entire series but Vulture’s put together a few clips of Baron Cohen’s guests at “their most gullible” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czU_IkTDmMk…
Relativity
The 1.25s interval between each ‘tick’ in the background score of the water planet scenes1 in “Interstellar” indicates the passage of a single day on Earth. #theydidthemath See also: thalassophobia↩︎…
Child Endangerment
A mother in suburban Chicago breathes a huge sigh of relief this week, as she was reunited with her 8-year-old son Kevin, who was accidentally left at home alone as the family went on vacation to Paris. Apparently no one had noticed the boy was missing on their drive to the airport and through airp…