Entries Tagged as 'movie'

Monday, June 20th, 2016

The Onion’s Review of Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’

Don’t worry there aren’t any spoilers here as The Onion’s head film critic, Peter K. Rosenthal talks about Pixar’s latest animated feature and sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo, Finding Dory. For Rosenthal the movie works as the perfect demonstration of how society’s failure to care for the mentally disabled places an unbearable burden on the [...]

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

‘Sunspring’ is a Sci-Fi Short Film Written by Artificial Intelligence

Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley stars in this strange and very dark sci-fi movie written, which bizarrely is written by a machine. AI researcher from New York University Ross Goodwin teamed up with director Oscar Sharpe to produce the short film. The script was made by a feeding a “recurrent neural network” (nicknamed Benjamin) with [...]

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

‘Deadpool’s Day Off’ is the Deadpool/Ferris Bueller Mashup You Always Wanted

Inspired by the post-credit sequence in the Deadpool movie YouTube user Darth Blender has created this very funny mashup. It, naturally, features John Hughes’ beloved 1980s cult movie classic ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ and Marvel’s awesome 2016 postmodern superhero movie. After watching that post-credit scene it was inevitable someone, somewhere, was going to make this. [...]

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Learn the Alphabet in 85 Films with This Supercut of ‘Movie ABCs’

If you’re a grown adult and you need to learn the alphabet then you’re in trouble, but let’s say you just need a refresher. This supercut featuring characters from 85 movies, both new and old, should help—because it shows them reciting the alphabet from A to, well, Z.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

This Supercut of Sad Movie Moments Will Most Definitely Make You Cry

Often when it comes to memorable moments in movies it’s the sad ones that stick out the most, the ones where ET says goodbye, the montage at the beginning of Up, or the end of the Iron Giant. YouTube channel Burger Fiction collate some of the most tearjerking in this melancholy supercut.

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

‘Welcome To A Supercut’ is a Supercut of Movies Saying ‘Welcome To’

In cinema it’s pretty much standard practice that characters in the movie say at some point in the film “welcome to…” and now the guys from YouTube channel Burger Fiction have made a supercut of when movies do just that. It features 70 films in just over four minutes and they verge from the sinister [...]

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Here’s Everything Wrong With Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Whatever you might think about the trailers for the new Star Trek movie, let’s not forget what the original Star Trek movie was like—very dull indeed. And it gets picked apart in this video by CinemaSins which counts the ways in which it was a very boring movie, even for ardent fans.

Friday, May 27th, 2016

This Drone Star Wars Dogfight is Basically Your Childhood Imaginary Toy Battles

This video from Corridor Digital is pretty much your childhood Star Wars toy playing made real, well as real as CGI-enhanced drone footage can be. The video features a TIE Fighter vs X-Wing dogfight all shot with drones and suped up with some desktop VFX.

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Why Every Movie Trailer Is The Same

Everything is becoming homogenised, at least that’s what it sometimes seems like. At least when it comes to movie trailers. Hollywood blockbuster movie trailers anyway. Cracked.com explain how so in this video which looks at 11 tricks Hollywood trailers use to make the trailers seem so epic and to engage our attention.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

The Big Lebowski: The Dude Awakens Mashes Up Star Wars and the Coens

If you ever wondered what the Coen Brothers stoner classic The Big Lebowski would be like with the sweeping songs of John Williams, then this mashup trailer that combines that and Star Wars: The Force Awakens will show you. It makes for a much more dramatic tone to the criminal yet comical proceedings of Lebowski [...]

Monday, May 16th, 2016

First Person Iron Man Puts You Inside the Superhero’s Suit

YouTube channel Ismahawk have created this awesome Captain America: Civil War-themed fanmade short film that shows things from Iron Man’s POV, putting viewers inside Tony Stark’s special suit so you can pretend, with some imagination, that you’re a superhero.