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Take a ride
Trolling through the wilderness of bittorrent, what did I happen upon but an 11.58 GB archive containing 168 issues of Heavy Metal magazine, beginning with its debut in September 1977 and extending...
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Watchmen Extended Director’s Cut
It’s 25 minutes longer, 186 minutes total. It was supposed to be released in theaters in July; I don’t know anything about that (and I think we all probably missed it). The DVD and the Blu-Ray come out...
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Some random video goodness
1) What if Ghostbusters had been made in 1954? here’s one man’s answer to that burning question: 2) The first official trailer to the Coen Brothers’ new movie A Serious Man is here. I think it looks...
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District 9
(2009) **** This really was astoundingly good. But I’m not going to say anything here, because you guys probably haven’t seen it yet (except for JPX). Follow me to the comments page for more...
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Avatar vs. Delgo
This is great! Apparently there was this animated feature called “Delgo,” which I didn’t see, but which everyone’s sardonically referring to in reference to the Avatar trailer. Anyway, somebody did a...
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The J-27
I know there are other music geeks out there in Horrorthon-land…actually, aren’t we all music geeks (in addition to everything else)? Anyway, as I continue my obsessive study of the technical...
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I’ve got this whole “Avatar” thing all figured out
Okay, go with me for a minute here. I suddenly realized what this whole damn Avatar thing is all about. For more than ten years, James Cameron made movies like this:Right? You can almost hear the...
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Remastered
I’m on an insane deadline and under tremendous stress, so I’ll make this quick (I only allowed myself fifteen seconds to provide a picture, which is why the above is so crude). But I had to mention 1)...
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Billboard, April 4, 1964
As I mentioned: top five slots. Beat that. (Obviously, nobody ever has.) Share:FacebookEmailLinkedInTwitter
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Jordan’s modern “2001: A Space Odyssey” trailer
Exactly in line with Handsome Stan’s comments about old trailers, here’s my modern trailer for Stanley Kubrick’ 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. I did this a couple of years ago and added it to...
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Undercover Boss
Any other H’thonners into this show? I never watch reality television but I’ve eagerly devoured all eight episodes of this excellent, Dickensian CBS series. It’s uplifting and troubling at the same...
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Hey, JPX, how are you liking “Space: 1999″?
Recently JPX mentioned that he’d rented the first DVD of the 1975 British sci-fi television series Space: 1999, starring Martin Landau and Angelina Jolie, which is one of my favorite television shows...
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Okay, okay…
No, it’s not actually Angelina Jolie starring in Space: 1999 as Dr. Helena Russell (below); it’s the one and only Barbara Bain, Martin Landau’s then-wife, whom I described in my “Bringers of Wonder”...
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Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell: Her debut scene
I’m working at cross-purposes to myself here, because I love Space: 1999 and I want everyone to watch it (Look at that incredible production design!), but I also dislike nepotism and I kind of wish a...
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That Big Thing Back There 7
“Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due” DEPT: That Big Thing Back There, courtesy of James Cameron, who displays a triumphant mastery of the concept in the above images from Avatar. (Click for larger...
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Mazes
Taking a closer look at the “famous hedge maze” in The Shining. http://www.jordanorlando.com/ns/mazes Share:FacebookEmailLinkedInTwitter
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Mazes 2
Above, a shot from the Vivian Kubrick documentary about the making of The Shining that’s on the movie disc, showing the production team’s working map of the “real” maze set — the one Jack chases Danny...
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More Avatar
Everybody liked the most recent Big Thing Back There (#7) from Avatar, but I was the only one of us who could actually watch it move. So, to fix that, here’s the entire 2 minute 45 second sequence of...
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